Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Reviews

  • A Moveable Feast and The Paris Wife

    June Book Club was a double bill: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway and The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. A Moveable Feast is a collection of vignettes recalling the…


  • God is not Great

    I don’t think I would have read God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens if it hadn’t been in the 99p kindle sale at Christmas. Maybe that was someone’s idea…


  • The Quest

    The Quest by Wilbur Smith is apparently the fourth book in a series (that once again I haven’t read the rest of), but I didn’t know that until I read…


  • War and Peace

    Reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy was my main reading goal for this year. I spend a couple of hours a day on a train and I like to…


  • The Functions of Role-Playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems and Explore Identity

    I’m interested in identity and exploring aspects of personality and how we play parts in the various areas of our lives. All of us have different ways of being depending…


  • How I Live Now

    I don’t often read YA fiction because of all the adult fiction I haven’t read yet. Last year I accidentally read some and wasn’t sure how to judge it. I…


  • Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

    This charming little book was a gift and is not something I would have picked up for myself. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell is a collection…


  • The Four Agreements

    The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz is another re-read for me. I first read it several years ago and decided to read it again when I stumbled across a…


  • 61 Hours

    Oh hai Jack Reacher. 61 Hours by Lee Child sees Reacher stuck in South Dakota during a snow blizzard of the kind that lasts for days and shuts whole towns…


  • The Golden Notebook

    Another in my list of feminist classics I should have read but haven’t: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. It is the story of Anna Wulf, who has written a…


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