Waiting on Wednesday
27 October 2015
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Breaking the Spine, Fire Touched, Patricia Briggs, Waiting on Wednesday
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine. Every Wednesday we get to highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. I love the Mercy Thompson series – I’ve already seen this around the place,but even so, I really want it!!!!!! Due March 2016.
Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs:
Mercy Thompson has been hailed as “a heroine who continues to grow and yet always remains true to herself.”* Now she’s back, and she’ll soon discover that when the fae stalk the human world, it’s the children who suffer…
Tensions between the fae and humans are coming to a head. And when coyote shapeshifter Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate, Adam, are called upon to stop a rampaging troll, they find themselves with something that could be used to make the fae back down and forestall out-and-out war: a human child stolen long ago by the fae.
Defying the most powerful werewolf in the country, the humans, and the fae, Mercy, Adam, and their pack choose to protect the boy no matter what the cost. But who will protect them from a boy who is fire touched?
No.27 Witch #Drawlloween
Today is day 27 of Drawlloween – a fun event that I found out about here on the lovely ‘Not Yet Read’. Today is Witch.
Here is my witch – mirror, mirror on the wall….
No.26 Rat #Drawlloween
Today is day 25 of Drawlloween – a fun event that I found out about here on the lovely ‘Not Yet Read’. Today is Rat. Nobody likes rats, right? Well, maybe sometimes we do – what about this fella – and, in spite of my rough sketch – can you name the film?
Hell hath no fury – like a woman!
26 October 2015
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Tags: Halloween, The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesday, Witches
This week over at the Broke and Bookish the topic for Top Ten Tuesday is :
‘Halloween themed freebie’
With Halloween in mind I thought I’d put forth 10 wicked female characters for us with one main theme:
- The White Witch from CS Lewis’ Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Let’s face it – she froze Narnia and forbid Christmas!
- The Wicked Witch of the West, the Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum – well, she wasn’t very upset when her sister got squashed by a falling house, she was very mean to the straw man and basically a tyrant to the munchkins! “oh what a world”
- The Three Witches from Stardust by Neil Gaiman- you can’t just go around eating pure and innocent fallen stars!
- Ursula from the Little Mermaid – a plotter of nefarious deeds! Stealer of dreams and voices!
- Witch of the Waste from Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, robbed Sophie of her youth because she was jealous!
- Bellatrix LeStrange from JKRowling’s Harry Potter. Very powerful, evil and a death eater. Not to mention killed various characters.
- The Grand High Witch from Roald Dahl’s Witches – she has plans – massive plans – to destroy all the children!
- The Queen – from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves by the Grimm Brothers. She may be a queen, and was once the fairest in the land but deep down she’s an evil witch who wants the heart of snow white delivering to her in a box! tsk
- The Witch who cursed the trolls in Danielle Jensen’s Stolen Songbird. Can’t say too much for fear of spoilers!
- Dolores Umbridge from JKRowling’s Harry Potter. All dressed up in her pink suits looking like butter wouldn’t melt, drinking tea out of her bone china and surrounded by cats – but deep down (in fact not so very deep) she has a horrible mean streak – and don’t be caught talking in class because she’ll give you lines and they won’t be written on paper.
Tis all for me this week. Except for a little spell from the Sanderson Sisters:
Twist the bones and bend the back
Itch-it-a-cop-it-a Mel-a-ka-mys-ti-ca
Trim him of his baby fat
Itch-it-a-cop-it-a Mel-a-ka-mys-ti-ca
Give him fur black as black
Just…. like…. that!
No.25 Mummy #Drawlloween
Today is day 24 of Drawlloween – a fun event that I found out about here on the lovely ‘Not Yet Read’. Today is Mummy. With this in mind I thought I’d draw a mummy with a difference. Can you spot who this is?
