Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: POV

  • Shadow and Bone

    Shadow and Bone is the first in Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha trilogy. Alina Starkov is a scrawny orphan with little past and an uncertain future. As a conscript mapmaker in the…


  • The Bees

    I love my kindle. It’s much better not having to carry around several books and I run out of something to read much less frequently. I still read and buy…


  • 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…


  • 100 Books in 2011 review: Dead as a Doornail

    Dead as a Doornail is the fifth in Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse series. In honour of the fact that there’s a review for each one on this blog I’ve created…


  • 100 Books in 2011 review: The Heroes

    This one is hot off the press! For me at least. Every so often a book comes out that I’m so excited about I buy it in hardback as soon…


  • Thoughts on reading: Wolf Hall

    I’ve been putting this one off since the end of September. It felt a bit like hard work. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel was the Book Club book for September…


  • Thoughts on reading: Twelve

    This came to my attention at alt.fiction 2010. During a panel it was held up as an example of a perfectly good novel that couldn’t sell due to the market.…


  • Thoughts on reading: Lords of the North

    Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell has Vikings in it, so it is automatically brilliant. Also, Cornwell is one of my favourite authors. One thing that characterizes Cornwell’s writing…


  • Thoughts on reading: Whit

    Whit by Iain Banks has been on book mountain for a while. Years in fact. I was put off Iain Banks’ mainstream fiction by not being able to get through…


  • Thoughts on reading: A Game of Thrones

    A Game of Thrones by G.R.R. Martin is book one of A Song of Ice and Fire which features in my top ten favourite books of all time. This is…


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