Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Books

  • What was your favourite book as a teenager?

    Inspired by Nathan Bransford, who asked the question on his blog. He gets hundreds of comments though and I didn’t feel like getting lost in the cloud. My favourites were:Wuthering…

  • True Blood Season 1 vs. Dead until Dark

    A few posts ago I promised a comparison of the first series of True Blood and the first novel of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse series, Dead until Dark. The UK…

  • Slammerkin

    Should historical fiction be considered speculative fiction? OK, no, I know. I’m only asking because I want to talk about a novel that isn’t SF, fantasy or horror. The book…

  • Viking: King’s Man

    This week I’ve read Viking: King’s Man by Tim Severin and The Secret Life of Trees by Colin Tudge. I only intend to comment at any length on fiction as…

  • Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

    It’s been a week and a half into the new job and I’ve read two books! Probably could have done better if I’d chosen easier books, but that’s cheating. This…

  • The Steel Remains

    Well, it’s been a busy time lately, what with finishing up one job and preparing for the next. One last work-related out of town trip didn’t help either. Tomorrow I…

  • More books on writing

    This week I’ve been reading lots and may actually have had a breakthrough on the work-in-progress. Self-editing for Fiction Writers, Rennie Browne and Dave King. This was a really useful…

  • Bookwormr

    I discovered the most fun thing the other day. Well, alright, not the most fun thing, but it is pretty entertaining. Bookwormr is social media for people who like to…

  • Books on writing

    I’ve just started reading The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, by Christopher Vogler. It came quite highly recommended. Like most (if not all) writers, I’ve read a goodly pile…

  • What I’ve been reading

    Again, a long delay in posting. I’m job hunting again as my current contract finishes at the end of the year. Happily, I’m using working on my novel as displacement…

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