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)

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 (8/20)

Further examples of the genius of Mary Shelley

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 (7/20)

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 (6/20)

Name That Poem... #booksky #poetrysky

Starting a classic... #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 (5/20)

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 (4/20)

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 (3/20)

Currently read: Four-Sided Triangle, William F. Temple, for the #FilmtasticFebruary prompt 'Book Adapted Into a Film' - a 1953 Hammer movie with the fab Barbara Payton

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 (2/20)

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 (1/20)

I keep trying to read other stuff... but Jessica in a cult... and Jessica in Macbeth... too much to resist #svh #SweetValleyHigh

Currently reading Summoned to the Seance, a recent entry in the Tales of the Weird series, ed @dremilyvincent.bsky.social Enjoying it a lot so far - great to see Florence Marryat here!

🎵Name That Tune🎵 - also very nearly a book title

Name That Poem! #LegoBooks

PC 49 - with his catchphrase "My Sunday helmet!" Radio, films and the obligatory annual.

Coming in April - a readalong of _some_ of Finnegans Wake on #BookTube and Discord with the aim of pure enjoyment #JamesJoyce youtu.be/Stj0W7gYScc?...