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
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.
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Really enjoyed talking Jane Austen with @19thcenturyem.bsky.social a PhD student with @ehunineteen.bsky.social - some great #JaneAustenJuly recommendations youtu.be/xeGNIo5qpds?...
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?...
'Plastic flaars luv? Only a paand.'
Nice! Thanks.
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
Enjoying it a lot – I'll keep an eye out for the bigger book.
Book Haul! Fungi ( via @blpublishing.bsky.social ), Ferns ( via @drfrond.bsky.social and others ), Female Hypnotists and Sweet Valley High ♥️ youtu.be/JKsNR9KjqnQ?...
I would so love to visit this collection!
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 👍
Blimey!
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)
Excellent, well done Emma
Moon Zero Two novelisation- good but no GoJos #booksky youtu.be/X8sB3g_g3zg?...
