Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Fantasy

  • Thoughts on Reading: Confessor

    Confessor is the last of a long cycle by Terry Goodkind. Once again, I haven’t read the others; it’s just something I found on my shelf. I enjoyed the writing.…


  • Reflections on alt.fiction 2010

    Wow, what a difference two years makes. I’ve just got back from alt.fiction 2010 and it was thought-provoking and inspiring. I went to alt.fiction 2008 and it was a fun…


  • Jarka Ruus

    As I’m working my way through my enormous pile of unread books, which is not getting any smaller as I keep adding to it, not that I have some sort…


  • Priestess of the White

    Priestess of the White by Trudi Canavan is not a small book. It’s the first part of a trilogy and is a massive 650 pages. The first hundred or so…


  • City of Beasts

    I haven’t read Harry Potter. Sometimes it seems like I’m the only adult in the world that hasn’t and the reason is that I’m not a child and therefore I…


  • Adventures in reading

    It’s been a while, but mainly because I’ve been writing a short story, so no apologies. Since I’ve been away I’ve cracked through lots of books and thus here comes…


  • Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero

    Ah, comic fantasy. There’s plenty of it out there, even if some people insist that Terry Pratchett is the only author in the genre. Humour is a very personal thing…


  • 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…


  • Best Served Cold – or with a nice cup of tea and a comfy sofa

    Because once picked up, it’s quite hard to put down again. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie arrived last night and threw all my (admittedly vague) plans for doing something…


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