Google Reader's Almost Gone: Alternative Ways To Follow YA Book Queen & Other Blogs!

Google Reader is unfortunately going to disappear for good soon, so I've decided that it was time to bring up a few options for those of you who would like to continue following this blog. Here are some ways to keep up with what's happening on YA Book Queen (and with other blogs, too):

A. You can follow YA Book Queen on Bloglovin. I'm starting to adore bloglovin since it makes it very easy to keep up with my favorite websites. Plus, there's an app for iPad users! 
B.  Alternatively, you can also subscribe to YA Book Queen's feed using another reader.
C.  Or, you can even subscribe to receive blog posts via email. 
D.  I also usually tweet links to my blog posts. 
E.  Similarly, I try to post links on YA Book Queen's Facebook page. 
All of these options are linked on the top of my right sidebar (the orange social media icons). 

Feedly is fantastic, too, for those of you who want to keep following multiple blogs. I've been using this for the last few months, and I think it's fabulous! Feedly has plenty of differently colored themes, a few ways to customize how you view the blogs you follow (I prefer the magazine view), it let's you organize blogs into different categories, makes it incredibly simple to add blogs to follow, and it's easy to navigate. There's also an iPad app. All in all, it's a great alternative to Google Reader!

Bewitched Bookworms made a post a few months ago that lists plenty of other great alternatives to Google Reader, so check it out!  

The Nine Paths to Chloe King: 4th & 5th Paths

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Nine Paths Begins - Game Box

Recap of Paths One and Two

Recap of Path Three

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The Fourth Path

A message from the Mai:  

"Circle!

The time has come to take the Fourth Path on your journey!

Then Nine Paths Prophecy tells us, "The Fourth Path will be a time of awakening. The Circle of Strangers shall face the greatest of unknowns: Those whose trust grows truly and those whose trust rains false."

Remove the Baby Bib from your Nine Paths box. Look at it carefully. You must translate the symbol and follow the path where it leads to find more information...

-iamamai"

I checked the baby bib, and sure enough, it had an extra tag with a "TRUST" symbol on it (and thankfully a website written down too)!

I followed the link, and came across the page pictured below. If you choose to follow the path, click the photo below to visit the website and type the word "trust" into the VENDOR CODE section to watch a quick yet intriguing Chloe King video clip.

Click picture to visit the site and see the video - enter the code word "trust" 

The Fifth Path

"Circle! The time has come to take the Fifth Path! This is happening sooner than we, the Mai, anticipated. Those who would like to see the Nine Paths Prophecy denied are hunting for The Uniter! 

The Nine Paths Prophecy warns, 'The Fifth Path will shine a light on a deceiver. The Circle must keep an eye on this imposter and slow his chase by creating many false roads away from the one.' 

We, the Mai, have learned that a deceiver, Batko614, is on Twitter searching for Chloe King. In order to protect The Uniter, you must point Batko614 away from her. Please, lead Batko614 down a trail of lies and urge your Followers to misdirect him. Protecting The Uniter will take the Circle of Strangers another step closer to fulfilling the Nine Paths Prophecy."

So, I sent a message to @Batko614 and said a friend saw Chloe in San Francisco and it looked like she was on her way to a Giants game. 

There were some bizarre sightings of Chloe King: from the mall, Disneyland, Times Square, and even somewhere out at sea(?) -- this Batko614 does not stand a chance of finding her. Feel free to tweet your own sighting of #ChloeKing!

...The Fifth Path Continues...

Whoa, a double-task path! 

I received instructions to search for "Chloe's Crush" using GOOGLE search engine to find a hidden video clip:

Yeah. I need to learn to look, you know, everywhere. At least I only wasted ten minutes. It could've been worse ;)

And here is the ever-so-elusive video:

If you're not playing yet, start now (some of the challenges seem to differ a bit online, and the grand prize - for the first online player to complete all the challenges - is very awesome)!