Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: feminism

  • I’m not sure that was a joke

    Under the label ‘Things I wish I’d written’, because they express a point I’ve been wanting make for ages, is this post from The F-Word blog on that hateful phrase ‘can’t you…


  • 100 Books in 2011 review: Edge

    I was looking forward to reading Edge by Thomas Blackthorne. I liked the blurb (which you can see in the picture). It sounded like it was going to be an…


  • 100 Books in 2011 review: Grass

    Book number 1 in the 100 books in 2011 challenge is Grass by Sherri Tepper. It’s number 48 on the SF Masterworks list. The blurb says: Generations ago, humans fled to…


  • 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…


  • Thoughts on reading: The Hard Way

    Plot. I have issues with plot. I have a mental block when it comes to getting my characters from one big event to another via smaller events. Perhaps it’s just…


  • Thoughts on reading: Club Dead

    The Book People come to where I work and sometimes you can gets lots of books for little money. The last time they had eight Sookie Stackhouse novels for a…


  • Crossed Genres, Issue 5

    Issue 5 of Crossed Genres is sci-fi/fantasy crossed with humour. There are five stories. The first is Archimedes Nesselrode by Justine Graykin. The start of this put me off. I…


  • Writing and Unconscious Bias

    I’ve been pondering this one for a while. A few weeks ago I stumbled across a radical feminist critique of one of my favourite shows, Firefly. My first reaction was…


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