Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Reviews

  • Ancient Traces: Mysteries in Ancient and Early History

    This is another one of those books that wasn’t what I thought it was. I’ve had it on my shelf for a while. I thought it was an archaeology book…


  • The Spiritual Revolution: Why religion is giving way to spirituality

    This book is the findings of a research project asking whether there has been a fundamental shift in Western cultures away from religion towards spirituality. The Spiritual Revolution posits that…


  • Medieval Lives

    I read a lot of fantasy fiction (amongst other things) and write some too. Fantasy worlds are overwhelmingly based on medieval European societies and the genre does come in for…


  • Getting Things Done

    I love this book: Getting Things Done: How to achieve stress-free productivity by David Allen. The review will be long. The TLDR version is: This book will help you organise…


  • Consciousness Explained

    Consciousness is a tricky subject and how we come to be aware of ourselves is something not well understood. In Consciousness Explained Daniel C. Dennett explores the idea that consciousness…


  • Strip off Your Fear: Radiate the Confidence Within

    This is a book about setting yourself free to live the life you really want to have. In Strip off your Fear, Betsy Talbot talks about the reasons we keep…


  • Physics of the Impossible

    In Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku tackles some of our favourite technologies from science fiction and parapsychology to see whether they are actually possible. It includes chapters on force…


  • Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling

    I picked this up because I’d become aware I wasn’t really enjoying what I was eating and I needed a reminder about working through feelings rather than suppressing them with…


  • Talking About the Elephant

    Talking about the Elephant by Lupa is an anthology of essays on neopagan perspectives on cultural appropriation. The essays cover various paths from Celtic Reconstructionism to Egyptian mysteries to eclectic…


  • The Borgias and their Enemies 1431-1519

    I’ve been watching the series The Borgias and enjoying it enough to want to find out more about the actual Borgias. Because, you know, TV tends not to be terribly…


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