Clock Rewinders on a Book Binge is where Tara @ 25 Hour Books and Amanda @ On a Book Bender shamelessly plug each other, share the fantastic posts, giveaways, or whatever else we’ve found and loved by other awesome bloggers (or authors!) during the week, and talk about the books we plan on reading in the coming week.

Pages of Forbidden Love Recap:

Tour Review: The Kiss Off with Alexa
Bout of Books: Goals and Updates with Alexa
Tune in Tuesday (11) with Bianca
Alexa Reviewed: Twilight Graphic Novel Vol 2
Waiting on Wednesday (28) with Alexa
Johnny Reviewed: Batman Vs. Bane
Still on My Mind (1) with Bianca
Alexa Reviewed: Dark Frost
Alexa Reviewed: Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

In Alexa’s World:

Well it certainly has been a busy week around here. 
I had a lot going on with many days and hours at work so I didn’t get to read a ton for Bout of Books Read-a-Thon.
I’m sort of upset about my amount of reading lately but I hope to pick that up for the end of May into June.  

Around the Blogging Community:

~ The Book Nympho is looking for a part time reviewer on her blog!

~ The Zombie Queen had some awesome stories up on her blog that included her!
(Story I, Story II, Story III)

~ Smash had a great post up about how she got into blogging for TGIF!

~ The Bookish Babe is reviewing the entire Celestra Series (Books 1, 2, and 3) (Books 4, 5, and 6)

Books We Received: 

Awesome People Mentioned:
~ Angela @ Reading Angel
~ Nicci @ Paper Dreams

Clock Rewinders on a Book Binge is where Tara @ 25 Hour Books and Amanda @ On a Book Bender shamelessly plug each other, share the fantastic posts, giveaways, or whatever else we’ve found and loved by other awesome bloggers (or authors!) during the week, and talk about the books we plan on reading in the coming week.

Pages of Forbidden Love Recap:

Cornerstone Tour: Alexa’s Review
Tune in Tuesday (10) with Bianca
Happily Ever Endings…Embrace with Alexa
Johnny Reviewed: Catching Fire
Johnny Reviewed: Mockingjay
Bianca Reviewed: Immortal Beloved

In Alexa’s World:

 Well I have decided that I’m bored with my own blog Pages of Forbidden Love.
This is not an easy feeling and I have decided that I’m going to explore helping out on a friend’s blog (Stephanie @ Once Upon a Chapter)  in June and July.
No worries because I still have plenty of posts going up in June and July.
I just feel this will give Johnny, Bianca, and possibly Lindsay some more blog posting room and you will get to see more of them while catching me on the fly here and there.
Plus June and July are the only months that I can manage running between two blogs because my medical program starts in August and I won’t have time to be a blogger on more than just Pages of Forbidden Love.
So please don’t feel this is me saying goodbye, this is just me exploring something new for a small window of time.
As I have said I’m still going to be around on PoFL so no reason for mass chaos! 

(This message will probably be repeated in June in an Update Post for anyone who didn’t read this initial posting!)

Around the Blogging Community:

~ Ashley @ The Bookish Brunette is looking for an Associate Reviewer/ Blogging Partner in Crime! I’m sort of jealous because I wish I had time to be her blogging partner!

~ Loretta @ Between the Pages did a great review of Hemlock, makes us all believe we can fall in love with werewolves again!

~ Amanda @ On a Book Bender made me wait and wait to see her Goals Post for Bout of Books!
(Which Bout of Books is next week for all of you last minute people who have yet to Sign Up!)

~ Check out what book Miss Vain @ Miss Vain’s Paranormal Fantasy thinks a guy should read to Brush Up on Sexual Favors!

~ Last but certainly not least, author M.R. Merrick did a series of posts on success that you should certainly check out!
Success Part I, Success Part II and Success Part III

Books We Received:

Awesome People Mentioned:
Loretta @ Between the Pages
Amanda @ On a Book Bender
Tara @ 25 Hour Books
Angela & Duke @ Reading Angel
Vivien

Clock Rewinders on a Book Binge is where Tara @ 25 Hour Books and Amanda @ On a Book Bender shamelessly plug each other, share the fantastic posts, giveaways, or whatever else we’ve found and loved by other awesome bloggers (or authors!) during the week, and talk about the books we plan on reading in the coming week.

Pages of Forbidden Love Recap:

Alexa Reviewed: Fairy Blues
May TBR Pile/ Operation TBR Reduction!
Tune in Tuesday (9) With Bianca
Waiting on Wednesday (27)
Alexa Reviewed: Dengeki Daisy Vol 2
Alexa Reviewed: An Unlikely Alliance

In Alexa’s World:

It certainly has been a pretty crazy week here in Arizona. People in my area that I knew were murdered and well it has just been downhill since Wednesday when this happened. It seems like life was on hold because you couldn’t get in or out of the house without police stopping you or reporters wanting a story. I have hardly read all week and well its just been a very long week.

Around the Blogging Community:

~ Ashley@ The Bookish Brunette started May Zombie Craze with a Zombietastic Giveaway!
~ If you need a great contemporary read Candace @ Candace’s Book Blog reviews/recommends In Honor by Jessi Kirby!
~ Nick @ Nick’s Book Blog got an amazing new Blog Design!

Books We Received:

Awesome People Mentioned:
~ Angela & Duke @ Reading Angel
~ Loretta @ Between the Pages
~ Ashley @ The Bookish Brunette

Clock Rewinders on a Book Binge is where Tara @ 25 Hour Books and Amanda @ On a Book Bender shamelessly plug each other, share the fantastic posts, giveaways, or whatever else we’ve found and loved by other awesome bloggers (or authors!) during the week, and talk about the books we plan on reading in the coming week.

Pages of Forbidden Love Recap:

Alexa Reviewed: Destined
Tune in Tuesday (8) With Bianca
Johnny Reviewed: Princess of Mars
Waiting on Wednesday (26) With Alexa
Alexa Reviewed: Fifty Shades of Grey
Alexa Reviewed: Fifty Shades Darker
Ashley @ The Bookish Brunette Reviewed: The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

Alexa’s Life:

Not a whole lot to report but there may be a new blog design in the works… just saying!

Around the Book Blogging Community: 

~ Amanda @ On a Book Bender was kind enough to have me do a post and giveaway for her Blogoversary!
~ I reviewed Anna Dressed in Blood over at Ashley @ The Bookish Brunette’s Blog for our Pages of Bookish Love feature.
~ The lovely Erica @ The Book Cellar featured several of her favorite bloggers in a post,  Book Bloggers That Rock … I was lucky enough to be included!

Sign ups are still open for Bout of Books Read-a-Thon!

Sign ups just started for Reading Angel’s May Page Count Contest! 

Stephanie @ Once Upon a Chapter is starting her own feature to reduce her TBR pile, she is calling it Operation: TBR Reduction and you can join her!

Books We Received:

Please be aware that showing off books is only a small part of this feature! This feature is a way to showcase not only what has been happening all week long on Pages of Forbidden Love but also showcase other bloggers and regular life activites.

I know you can all read, since we are book readers, that the title of my Clock Rewinders post this week is Replacing the IMM Feature. I had actually been looking at Clock Rewinders posts for several weeks before the DRAMA happened! I was already thinking about switching over to this meme because I always want to do recap posts and spread the word about great blog posts I read all week long but I never am motivated to do this. So this feature allows me to get motivated to make this type of post happen. I do hope you enjoy the fact that I decided to make this switch for several personal reasons.

*Please note that the video this week does express our concern about the DRAMA and that it is easy to just link up a person instead of copy and pasting their posts. I’m not going to get into the DRAMA, I’m just going to say I’m no longer doing the IMM feature, our books received video will now be a part of Clock Rewinders, unless I hear from Amanda or Tara that this is not allowed. I simply feel that linking or giving credit is not hard to do, copy and pasting from someone else is wrong. No disrespect to The Story Siren is intended.* 

Awesome People Mentioned:

~ Amanda @ On a Book Bender
~ Tara @ 25 Hour Books
~ Elodie @ Once Upon a Quote
~ Ashley @ The Bookish Brunette
~ Loretta @ Between the Pages
~ Amy @ My Overstuffed Bookshelf