Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Classics

  • Thoughts on reading: The Bluest Eye

    I discovered I could edit on the train so I wasn’t reading for a while. I’ve got as far as I can with editing the current work-in-progress; it now needs…


  • Tess of the d’Urbervilles

    Back to the classics. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is probably one of the most famous stories of english literature. The story follows the eponymous heroine as she…


  • Vile Bodies

    Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh is a delight. It follows the activities of the ‘it’ crowd in the late nineteen-twenties. They are the sons and daughters of the rich and…


  • Martin Chuzzlewit

    I feel so virtuous. Like my mind has been on a marathon session at the brain gym! Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens. I’m a bit ambiguous about Dickens. I had…


  • A Gun for Sale

    I joined a book club at work. This month we’re reading Graham Greene’s Travels with my Aunt and A Gun for Sale. I read Travels with my Aunt ages ago…


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