This tag was created by http://lalatoadstone.blogspot.com/ and I saw the tag at Barb's blog http://bookertsfarm.blogspot.com/ . Looked like fun!
1) Who is your favourite magical or fantasy genre dog? Why? (film, tv or book)
It has to be Oberon from Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid books. We all want a dog that we can actually talk to, even if it's just inside our heads! When I was a kid and addicted to Doctor Who, I wanted my own K9!
2) Would you rather have a canine familiar or be able to shape shift into a dog? Why?
I've never had much interest in turning into an animal. If I did I'd be a wolf! I'd rather have the company of a canine familiar as I've never had a dog as a pet.
3) If you had a dog familiar, daemon, or were an animagus and changed into dog form, what combination of breeds would it be? (It has to be a mix as this is magical mutts) Why would you choose them?
I'm a rule breaker I'm afraid. If my dog has three magical powers then he is already a magical mutt so mine would just be a husky in appearance! He would be a dog familiar as opposed to the other options given. I would want him that size to take care of my family.
4) What would your familiar, daemon or dog form's name be?
He would be called Woofski as I've always loved that name.
5) If you had a magical dog, what three powers would be important for them to have? Why?
Naturally the power of speech so he can be a real companion. Secondly he would be able to teleport us wherever we needed to go to save time. He would also have a range of ninja fighting abilities for security reasons!
6) If your magical dog could talk, what accent would it have if any?
I wouldn't be greatly bothered about an accent as long as he is British.
7) If your fantasy dog had one odd magical habit or wore some strange talisman on it's collar, what would it be?
The desire to buy books on Amazon and pay for them himself, gifting plenty to me!
8) If you were going to write a fantasy story with a canine main character, what would the premise be, and what title would you have in mind?
It's not really the kind of book I'd write to be honest. If I was writing a dog related book it would be an apocalypse novel switching the POV between our faithful hound and the owners, or purely through the dog POV. He would have talking abilities. I'm not sure about plot or anything as I've never really thought it out but I love the idea of a husky called Thor!
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I'm using this week to have a bit of a rant about fake accounts, something that really bugs me.
I'm not much for social media really if I'm honest. Basically I joined Twitter to use it to promote the Indie authors whose books I was reviewing at the time. Now I don't get many review copies and most of the Indie stuff I review is what I buy or download myself. I don't have much time to get on Twitter. I have a Pinterest account that I love and get little time for. I use Goodreads daily, don't get time to go on Bookcrossing, which I miss, and that leaves Bloglovin, which I also use daily.
Bloglovin has it's issues as everyone who uses it knows. Don't get me started on this 'claim your blog' stuff!!! The thing about this site that bugs me the most is being followed by a ton of fake accounts. You know the ones I mean-a western sounding girls name followed by a 5 digit number and when you check the person out, the description is written in Russian, there is a link to sexytont or similar, no blog link, the 'person' hasn't saved any content just followed a ton of people...it's so obvious that these are fake bloggers yet bloglovin seems to be doing nothing about it! At the moment I'm being followed by at least 16 fake accounts and it is really annoying! Why don't bloglovin delete them? Or why don't I see a way to block these buggers myself? If anyone does know of a way, please tell me as it drives me mad!
Goodreads was having a similar issue with fake accounts. I was getting friend requests and instead of answering the question set, there were a few lines advertising a book and a link to a site to read it. A lot of Goodreads users seemed to be getting this and we reported it. I'm pleased to say that Goodreads did take it seriously and started working on a solution. I haven't had these fake friend requests for about eight weeks now which is good.
It is so annoying to see all this fake stuff around, especially if nothing is being done about it. It makes me wonder how many accounts on places like Twitter and Facebook are also fake. You also can't get away from talk about Russian interference in various elections around the world or trying to influence others through social media. It makes me think that it is hard to trust anything that I'm seeing and wondering if comments are being made on certain sites by fake people. I don't know, I enjoy using the internet but life was a lot more simple growing up when the most hi-tech thing I owned was Atari Pac-Man!!!
Do these fake accounts bug you? Where have you seen them popping up?
If there is one thing that makes a great book even better, it is when
it has a cover that we love! The cover design is what catches the eye
as we browse through a bookstore shelf or check out the Amazon or
Goodreads recommendations. The right cover makes me look closer at a
book, to read the blurb and maybe make a purchase. A poor cover might
mean I never look at the blurb at all.
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Google Plus, or DISQUS as I refuse to join something just to leave
comments, and I won't allow them to follow new people, update my
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This Week!
These covers are gorgeous and I like the sound of the books so yes, I bought them recently! Candace is also a fellow book blogger and you can find her at https://literarydust.wordpress.com/
OK so not a very exciting title but I couldn't think of another book related word starting with S! August Authorfest went well so I'm doing a few special things for September to keep up the tempo! As the month has thirty days, I will have 3 themes which will each last for ten days. One will be Series Catch Up, the second will be Shark! which sort of explains itself, and the third is Solo where I read stand-alone books. I'll need to read as much as I can in each category during their span.
Here are the books I've chosen.
SERIES CATCHUP
I'm trying to finish the Kitty Norville series by Carrie Vaughn and I have 7 books left and 10 days to do it. The Kitty books are 300-400 pages each! I'll try my best though! I should fit in Martha Wells as well as that is pretty short and I hope to get to Black Swarm if I do really well!
1) Carrie Vaughn-Kitty's Big Trouble
2) Carrie Vaughn-Kitty Steals The Show
3) Carrie Vaughn-Kitty Rocks The House
4) Carrie Vaughn-Kitty In The Underworld
5) Carrie Vaughn-Low Midnight
6) Carrie Vaughn-Kitty Saves The World
7) Carrie Vaughn-Kitty's Greatest Hits (anthology)
8) Martha Wells-Rogue Protocol
9) Jamie Hutchison-Black Swarm
SHARK!
You know I love my sharks and a whole ten days of shark books and films sounds great! This is my short list! I don't think I'll get the Salechii series finished but it depends how short the bridge stories are between the main books.
1) Rick Chesler-The Tank
2) Greig Beck-Fathomless
3) Chris Jameson-Devil Sharks
4) Matt Serafini-Island Red
5) Michael Bray-Feed
6) Carolyn McCray-Bullies
7) Carolyn McCray-Open Water
8) Carolyn McCray-Shark Station Nyet
9) Carolyn McCray-Churn
10) Carolyn McCray-The Shayu Situation
11) Carolyn McCray-Blood In The Water
1) Planet Of The Sharks
2) Empire Of The Sharks
3) Shark Lake
4) Toxic Shark
5) Ozark Sharks
6) Atomic Shark
SOLO
These are stand-alone books that I want to read. I'm only trying to read a few novels as Gameland has over 800 pages! The other two are short stories so I'll get them done.
1) Ernest Cline-Armada
2) Saul Tanpepper-Gameland
3) Milo James Fowler-Beneath The Surface
4) Hunter Shea-Rattus New Yorkus
5) Patrick Sheane Duncan-Dracula vs Hitler
FILMS
1) Ready Player One
2) Paddington
3) Paddington 2
4) Vampire Academy
5) Divergent
