Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Books

  • Book Mountain II

    It’s over a year since I began the concerted effort to read all the books on book mountain. There were 229 books. Now there are 189. In that time, I’ve…


  • 100 Books in 2011 challenge: Voodoo River

    I’m way behind on the 100 books in 2011 challenge, so I’m picking short, easy reads to try to catch up. Robert Crais is an easy read, and Voodoo River comes in…


  • 100 Books in 2011: The Ghost Writer

    July’s book club book was The Ghost Writer by John Harwood. I was quite looking forward to this as the blurb was quite enticing. A boy, Gerard, grows up in…


  • 100 Books in 2011 Challenge: The Prodigal Daughter

    Jeffrey Archer is an easy target. He’s a best-selling author that a lot of people think is a dreadful writer. So, given that I read in order to improve my…


  • 100 Books in 2011 Challenge: The Captive Queen

    I was so looking forward to The Captive Queen by Alison Weir. Although I haven’t read any of her novels before, I have read several of her historical biographies. I…


  • 100 Books in 2011 Challenge: Wolfsangel

    I’ve been on blog hiatus for a little while as I was on holiday in Vienna. Which was lovely. You may also have noticed from the sidebar that I’m running…


  • Announcing a read of A Dance with Dragons!

    Inspired by Leigh Butler’s fabulous A Read of Ice and Fire blog on Tor.com, I am going to do a chapter by chapter commentary of A Dance with Dragons. When…


  • 100 Books in 2011 Challenge: Mistral’s Kiss

    The first third of Mistral’s Kiss by Laurell K. Hamilton is basically one long sex scene with the protagonist, Merry Gentry having sex with some of her guard. After a while it…


  • 100 Books in 2011 Review: Gone Tomorrow

    Last week I miscalculated with how much I would read on the train. I knew I only had 40 pages of Globalization and its Discontents to go and I was…


  • 100 Books in 2011 Review: The Painted Man

    I was excited to read The Painted Man by Peter V. Brett. There’s been a lot of buzz around it and I like the cover a lot. There are three…


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