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End of the week wrap-up

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Tenaya

Spring Owlcat This week on the Purrfect Prose blog:

Monday Musings was about a book that ticked me off.
My Top Ten Tuesday was the places I like to read.
The Tuesday Teaser was from Philippa Gregory’s upcoming novel The King’s Curse.
My Waiting on Wednesday pick was Tad Williams’s Sleeping Late on Judgement Day.
Throwback Thursday revisited Alan Dean Foster’s Lost and Found.
Friday Fun featured some links and a cute cat.

There was one new review:

The House of the Four Winds by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory

End of the week wrap-up

Posted on August 17, 2014 by Tenaya

Spring Owlcat This week on the Purrfect Prose blog:

Monday Musings talked briefly about my love of historical fiction.
Monday also had a special tribute to Robin Williams.
Top Ten Tuesday featured stand-alone novels.
The Tuesday teaser was from Memory of Water by Emmi Itaranta.
My Waiting on Wednesday pick was The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire.
My Throwback Thursday pick was Jasper Fforde’s Something Rotten.
Friday Fun featured a couple of links to puzzle fun and goodness, as well as a couple of vids of Robin Williams.

There were also three new reviews this week:

Elisha Magus by E. C. Ambrose
The Midnight Queen by Sylvia Izzo Hunter
Earth Awakens by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

End of the week wrap-up

Posted on August 10, 2014 by Tenaya

Spring Owlcat This week on the Purrfect Prose blog:

Monday Musings talked about my reading weekend.
Top Ten Tuesday covered my favorite female characters.
The Tuesday Teaser was from Delilah Dawson’s Servants of the Storm.
The Waiting on Wednesday pick was Cherie Priest’s Maplecroft.
Throwback Thursday featured the Elfquest graphic novel The Searcher and the Sword.
Friday Fun offered a sneak peek at Robin Hobb’s upcoming novel Fool’s Assassin.

There were also two reviews:

The Vault of Dreamers by Caragh M. O’Brien
Free Agent by J. C. Nelson

End of the week wrap-up

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Tenaya

Spring Owlcat This week on the Purrfect Prose blog:

Inspired by the new Hobbit trailer, a few thoughts on the books versus the movies.
Top Ten Tuesday touched on my favorite re-reads.
The Tuesday Teaser was from E. C. Ambrose’s Elisha Magus.
My Waiting on Wednesday pick was Brenna Yovanoff’s Fiendish.
Throwback Thursday revisited Mercedes Lackey’s Exile’s Honor.
Friday Fun featured the revenge of the Great Bearded Glacier.

There were also two new reviews:

Lev Grossman’s The Magician’s Land
Robin Hobb’s Fool’s Assassin

Sigil thm The Walk It Off blog posted an article on lifehacks related to camping and hiking.

End of the week wrap-up

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Tenaya

Spring Owlcat This week on the Purrfect Prose blog:

Monday Musings talked about some changes I would have made to the most recent Walter Mitty film.
Top Ten Tuesday listed the characters that I’d want with me on a desert island.
The Tuesday Teaser was from J. C. Nelson’s Free Agent.
My Waiting on Wednesday pick was Kat Richardson’s Revenant.
The Throwback Thursday review was Molly Cochran’s The Third Magic.
No Friday Fun this week… I got home that night and crashed.

There was also one review:

A Barricade in Hell by Jaime Lee Moyer

End of the week wrap-up

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Tenaya

Spring Owlcat This week on the Purrfect Prose blog:

Monday Musings touched on OCD, the Dude, and Me and featured some of its many great quotes.
Top Ten Tuesday covered my picks for the first half of 2014.
The Tuesday Teaser was from The Vault of Dreamers.
The Waiting on Wednesday pick was Ann Aguirre’s Mortal Danger.
The Throwback Thursday review was Sarah Ash’s Lord of Snow and Shadows.
Friday Fun showed how Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are huge Star Wars geeks.

There were also two reviews:

California Bones by Greg Van Eekhout
Omega Days by John L. Campbell

End of the week wrap-up

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Tenaya

Spring Owlcat Lots of stuff on the Purrfect Prose blog this week:

Monday Musings talked about how events can inspire novels, and how those novels can come out really close together.
Top Ten Tuesday covered my favorite fictional houses.
The Tuesday Teaser was from John L. Campbell’s Omega Days.
The Waiting on Wednesday pick was Lauren Andersen’s The Boleyn Reckoning.
Throwback Thursday was Greg Bear’s Dead Lines.
Friday Fun introduced you to Paul and Storm’s song “Write Like the Wind”.

There was also one review this week:

Premonitions by Jaime Schultz

Spring Owlcat Well, I sure got a lot of writing done this week! In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m starting to do some new weekly features, so let’s see if I can keep the momentum going. Also, if you look to the sidebar on the right, you’ll see that I’m posting my stuff all over the place now, so you have plenty of options for following me.

Posts on Purrfect Prose this week: