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My ongoing quest to promote L. T. Meade youtu.be/Vwxo7zDFx4E?...
Lucy in danger in a 1963 'madcap mystery' - surprisingly good!
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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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
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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?...
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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
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!
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