Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Rambling thoughts

  • Book mountain

    I’ve just tidied up the books on my to-read bookcase (which overflows on to a second bookcase). I have 229 books to read. At a very generous two books per…


  • I Write Like

    I Write Like is an hilarious widget which analyzes your writing and gives you a comparison to a famous author. I tried it a few times and my results were:…


  • Absence

    Phew, it’s been a while. Partly it’s because I’ve been travelling and partly it’s because I’m sick. The travel is a short term thing. I went to Athens on holiday.…


  • 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…


  • Writing goals for 2010

    Finish Sacrifice! Yep, that’s basically it for this year. I want to get Sacrifice into a suitable state for sending to agents and I want to do that by the…


  • Happy anniversary to me

    It’s been just over a year since I started writing this blog so I thought it might be appropriate to do a little reflection. When I started my intentions were…


  • I might have a vampire fetish…

    I like horror in general and I like vampire stuff, but no more than any other creature of the night. But now I’m not so sure. My favourite thing in…


  • Hello, my life, how I’ve missed you

    I have a job! Yes, that’s right, job hunting is over and my life can resume. It’s amazing how much time looking for a job takes. I don’t think I’m…


  • New layout

    The eagle-eyed among you will notice that I’ve changed the template for my blog. Being coding challenged means I am limited to the free sample templates provided by Blogger. If…


  • 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…


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