Lucy in danger in a 1963 'madcap mystery' - surprisingly good!

So I'm in a reading event of short horror – was delighted to find The Hamlet by @joannacorrance.bsky.social and early forays into Unquiet Guests ed @dancoxon.bsky.social pub @deadinkbooks.bsky.social have been fun – meanwhile in C19th Bro x 7 Kings is sensational... youtu.be/7vIE2bkpl58

Reactions to last month's reading jollity... @nicholasroyle.bsky.social 'Shadow Lines' Pauline Murray 'Life's a Gamble' James Payn 'Lost Sir Massingberd' + 'Alone on the Borderland' ...fun times youtu.be/CKK-obrHXJU?...

Now re-edited to remove a mistake that concealed most images of the actual book 😅 So HERE are brief thoughts on amazing 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 graphic novel, Tara Togs: The Silence of Unicorns (pub. @comicscene.bsky.social ) youtu.be/8UqjJ2vmOyc?...

My ongoing quest to promote L. T. Meade youtu.be/Vwxo7zDFx4E?...

Trains! I have read of them. Chambers Journal 1862, Murder on the Tracks crime anthology ed @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social, Beggars of Life, Boxcar Children and more youtu.be/Mb9oIru6pEg

Marie Corelli's Electric Creed was a bit much for me, but I still love her and her gondola. (All authors should ride around in gondolas, and carts pulled by Shetland ponies.) youtu.be/lCzkTgWk1qI?...

In case you've ever wondered what an actual Victorian 'Bradshaw' is like #victoriana #railways youtu.be/JWC21FlOEIQ

Scoping out next month's reads for the #PeopleApril event on #BookTube – Stephen Coan's H Rider Haggard biog, Susannah Gibson's Bluestockings, @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Shadow Lines and Pauline Murray's Life's a Gamble. Should be a fun month. youtu.be/XtJZTQXidMs?...

A week when I ♤ Discovered Arnold Bennett via The Card ♡ Enjoyed an Emma Bennet romance (pub @joffebooks.bsky.social ) ♧ Delved into M E Braddon's Belgravia mag ...good times! youtu.be/45ynO5u5Aa4?...

The James Payn revival starts here! #victorian #literature #books youtu.be/WDmF_nDXQ94?...

Feb I enjoyed a bunch of movie-linked reads... 🎞 Zeroville - Steve Erickson 🎞 Leather Boys - Gillian Freeman (@deadinkbooks.bsky.social reissue w/ great intro @drkayemitchell.bsky.social ) 🎞 Dead Mabelle - Elizabeth Bowen (fab short) & Girls' Career Stories... Good times! youtu.be/H_BN9uep1tA?...

A month of reading Sherlock Holmes & related stuff – including @drdouglassmall.bsky.social 's fabulous Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930 youtu.be/PsuSt--jP0Q?...

A rambling round up of recent ear-reading, including some SFF everyone on earth has read already, The Eights by Joanna Miller, God's Junk Drawer @peterclines.com , Secrets of Hartwood Hall @katiejlumsden.bsky.social & The Grapples of Wrath @abeewords.bsky.social youtu.be/u9pAsCugsEA?...

That was fun! Interviewed about my Neglected Victorian Bestsellers YouTube readalong project by @helenaesser.bsky.social for the @vpfa.bsky.social blog victorianpopularfiction.org/neglected-vi...

Victorian energy vampires ahoy! The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat and some fellow travellers youtu.be/4FgXteJx6nA?... cc @madelinepotter.bsky.social

Matie Corelli March begins x youtube.com/watch?v=YH8q...

It's a Leather Boys kind of afternoon – what a lovely edition. Book written 1961 & was filmed in 64 @deadinkbooks.bsky.social

Occult Detectives! Review of the latest Occult Detective Mag + series recommendations including the amazing @abeewords.bsky.social Grave Expectations et seq. youtu.be/wU-_GT0IazU?...

This doesn't ring true to me. It reads like a pastiche and the unlikely use of the word 'beatnik' would be earlier than the widely-cited 1958 coinage. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Really enjoyed talking Jane Austen with @19thcenturyem.bsky.social a PhD student with @ehunineteen.bsky.social - some great #JaneAustenJuly recommendations youtu.be/xeGNIo5qpds?...

...and happy Private Eye July! youtu.be/v-dt-L68_RY?...

Happy #JaneAustenJuly ! Here's a video about the books and movies I have lined up. And later this week a great Austen convo with @19thcenturyem.bsky.social - good times! youtu.be/YXKipNyxFP4?...

For when you have a spare hour – eg while ironing, or stripping down an engine on the kitchen table – here's a just-for-fun Joyce reading group out loud for #Bloomsday youtu.be/v0pZ0q3U-oo?...

Enjoying #MrsDallowaysParty100 though beginning to wish I'd bought a nicer edition

Working my way through 'Decades of Dread' in the annual #BookTube #HorrorMayhem event, with the aid of @blpublishing.bsky.social tomes inc the new @johnnymains.co.uk edited Dead of Summer youtu.be/Uztvd1on_EU?... #booksky

Weekend reading – Ann Sheridan, mystery-solver

Book Haul! Fungi ( via @blpublishing.bsky.social ), Ferns ( via @drfrond.bsky.social and others ), Female Hypnotists and Sweet Valley High ♥️ youtu.be/JKsNR9KjqnQ?...

Reminiscing bout @whsmithofficial.bsky.social – home of genre fiction and downfall of my pocket money youtu.be/IC2HzQF6-bo #whsmith #tgjones

Well this looks interesting... Female Hypnotists! Victorian & Edwardian!

About ready to join the fountain pen set – just need to re-learn handwriting ✒️

@lejhouston.bsky.social I might have inherited a copy of Finnegans Wake once owned by you – if so, top cover-wrapping-up work 👍

It's a @blpublishing.bsky.social rainbow!

A microhistory for #internationalwomensday - it's 1939 in West Hartlepool UK, and Mrs Ida Walch has a point to make (that involves Frankenstein) youtu.be/LsHrCKYL-MA?...

Lego Karamazov: Alyosha (with optional theological distress face)

Moon Zero Two novelisation- good but no GoJos #booksky youtu.be/X8sB3g_g3zg?...

Mail Call! Hollywood & God by @fantomas2go.bsky.social Found following the Barbara Payton trail; an initial skim reveals many thrills, tangents, clues... #poetrysky #booksky

Finnegan's hodful of Finnegans #booksky

Love this cover design (1968)

Currently reading... too much! #booksky

A look at The Strand mag July 1891, ft. The first Sherlock Holmes short story A Scandal in Bohemia #booksky #victoriansky youtu.be/p1IVrcHUDuo?...

Y'know, I think I've read a Jane Converse ❤️ novel every time @criminolly.bsky.social has a Garbaugust event - this weekend will be no exception . . . #booksky #booktube

Currently reading: Moon Zero Two, novelisation of 1969 Hammer foray into SF. Set in 2021 when criminal oligarchs are ruining space.🤔 . . . Part of @criminolly.bsky.social 's Wasted Weekend of 'trashy' books.

Reading about the closure of University of Wolverhampton's Telford Campus reminds me of its optimistic origins as a unit on a business park c1990 😢

Reading project: 2001: A Space Odyssey and sequels - books, movies, comics... #booksky youtu.be/HyA15Xu_iHI?...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge (9/20)

This week's reading - Fearless Nadia bio by Dorothee Wenner - amazing Bollywood stunt queen! #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge (9/20)