Every Tuesday over at  The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  This week’s topic is:

Characters that …??

…can change or shift into something else:

1. Coyote: Mercy Thompson from Patricia Briggs series – I love this series, do yourself a favour and give it a shot if you haven’t already done so.
2. Kitsune/fox – Suzume from Generation V by MLBrennan.  An excellent vampire series!
3. Dragon –  Kai from Genevieve Cogman’s Invisible Library series – a series that has infinite possibilities using an ancient and magical library to portal to alternate universes.
4. Owl – Atticus from Kevin Hearne’s Druid Chronicles.  This series has a little bit of everything in terms of fantasy creatures, Gods, myths and legends and also has a lot of humour.
5. Shadows – Mia Corvere from Jay Kristoff’s Nevernight/Godsgrave books – possibly a bit of a cheat this one as she doesn’t really turn into shadows but is able to use them to hide.
6. Dog – Sirius Black turns into a giant black dog in JKRowling’s Harry Potter series.
7. Wolf – Professor Remus from JKRowling’s Harry Potter series.
8. Bats/Mist – a bit of a cheat – Dracula/vampires can often transform into bats/rats and mist.
9. Snake/Naga – one of the characters from an excellent series by Kristi Charish that brings us a female Indiana Jones type character who gets into all sorts of trouble when looking (to steal) artefacts – Owl and the Japanese Circus.
10. ?? – who did I miss?

Every Tuesday over at  The Broke and Bookish we all get to look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) examples to demonstrate that particular topic.  This week’s topic is:

Throwback Freebie: Ten Books I Loved During ??

I’ve gone for 2011 – this was a good year for me and the first that I started really listing my books so it’s easy to flirt back and see at a glance what I read.  Here are my 10 favourites roughly in the order they were read during the year (I read approximately 111 books that year these are the ones I’ve just chosen for this weeks TTT:

1. Soulless/Blameless/Changeless by Gail Carriger
2. Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch
3. Sunshine, Robin McKinley
4. The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss
5. Moon Called/Blood Bound/Iron Kissed/Bone Crossed/Silver Borne/River Marked by Patricia Briggs
6. Witch Light, Susan Fletcher
7. Red Seas Under Red Skies, Scott Lynch
8. A Game of Thrones, George RR Martin
9. Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
10. Prince of Thorns, Mark Lawrence

Was that a bloody impressive year or what!!!