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 )
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Questions such as calories, carbs, protein content?
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
Very good thanks. I run an online book group type of thing where The Blood of the Vampire was our February read and was massively enjoyed. Love the seaside scenes! Hope you're well too.
Bwahaha! That's brilliant.
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!
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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!
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A month of reading Sherlock Holmes & related stuff – including @drdouglassmall.bsky.social 's fabulous Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930 youtu.be/PsuSt--jP0Q?...
Thanks, we are honoured that you are honoured!
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.
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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?...
...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?...
Thanks! I also dug it here youtu.be/V7W1XpZB3QQ?...
'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