Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Books

  • 100 Books in 2011: Watchers

    Watchers by Dean Koontz is a story about the consequences of genetic engineering. A little bit. Mostly its a creepy horror story of nice people being stalked by horrible things.…


  • 100 Books in 2011: No Place for a Lady

    Somewhat disturbingly, I rather enjoyed No Place for a Lady by Louise Allen. I’ve grown so used to not enjoying Mills & Boon that at first I wondered if my…


  • 100 Books in 2011: The Left Hand of God

    The Left Hand of God by Paul Hoffman is the first of a trilogy following the life of Thomas Cale, a strange boy with a dent in his head and…


  • 100 Books in 2011: The Girl who Played with Fire

    I’ve become fed up of reading short books in order to hit my 100 books for the year target and was feeling the need to get into something more substantial.…


  • 100 Books in 2011: New Moon

    The second book of the Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer is New Moon. In this part Edward leaves Bella, for her own good natch, and she goes into a big…


  • 100 Books in 2011: Sword Song

    Book 4 in Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Stories is Sword Song. Cornwell is one of my favourite authors and I am really enjoying the Saxon Stories. Uhtred is nowhere nearer Bebbanburg.…


  • 100 Books in 2011: Pig Island

    I’m getting pretty good at judging whether what I’ve got left of a book will last me to the end of my commute. Unless, of course, the train dies at…


  • 100 Books in 2011: Winter Song

    Winter Song by Colin Harvey is the third book I’ve read from small press Angry Robot. As I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all of them and have paid for none of them…


  • 100 Books in 2011: Irons in the Fire

    I picked up Irons in the Fire by Juliet E. McKenna at Alt.com a couple of years ago. Juliet McKenna does quite a few writing conferences and I’d heard a…


  • 100 Books in 2011 challenge: Bride of the Solway

    More short books! Bride of the Solway by Joanna Maitland is a Mills & Boon (and yes, I still have more of them on book mountain). Our heroine, Cassie, is the prisoner…


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