Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Stop your servants reading trash! Timely advice from 1864 via @britishlibrary.bsky.social x British Newspaper Archive youtu.be/Pov_HMpr-Ss?...youtu.beHow to Stop Reading Trash #garbaugust #victorian #pennybloodsYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 020
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Talking about Jane Austen covers,and @mags-is-crocheting.bsky.social marvellous book about them youtu.be/GuqJHujL70k?...youtu.beJane Austen Covers 1960s #janeaustenjulyYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 010
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Lucy in danger in a 1963 'madcap mystery' - surprisingly good! 010
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 09/05/2026So 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/7vIE2bkpl58youtu.beMayhem Horror Sensation - a week of readingYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 041
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Reactions 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?...youtu.beApril Reads #peopleaprilYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 241
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Now 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?...actual.book 001
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 15/04/2026My ongoing quest to promote L. T. Meade youtu.be/Vwxo7zDFx4E?...youtu.beL. T. Meade: neglected author of 300 booksYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 010
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Trains! 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/Mb9oIru6pEgyoutu.beRailway Reading RecapYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 000
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Marie 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?...youtu.beMarie Corelli's Romance of Two WorldsYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 000
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 30/03/2026In case you've ever wondered what an actual Victorian 'Bradshaw' is like #victoriana #railways youtu.be/JWC21FlOEIQyoutu.beBradshaw's Guide 1896 - Dracula read it, Dickens hated it, Holmes relied in itYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 010
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Scoping 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?...youtu.bePeople April & Channel Plans #peopleaprilYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 010
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 25/03/2026A 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?...youtu.beRecent Reads: Bennett, Bennet, Belgravia and... Patterson?YouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 010
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026The James Payn revival starts here! #victorian #literature #books youtu.be/WDmF_nDXQ94?...youtu.beJames Payn: NEGLECTED Victorian BestsellerYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 010
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Feb 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?...youtu.beFilmtastic Reads RecapYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 030
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026A month of reading Sherlock Holmes & related stuff – including @drdouglassmall.bsky.social 's fabulous Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930 youtu.be/PsuSt--jP0Q?...youtu.beSherlock Holmes: canon chimps & lost TVYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 010
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 06/03/2026A 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?...youtu.beAudio Book Roundup ChatYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 140
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 06/03/2026That 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...victorianpopularfiction.orgNeglected Victorian Bestsellers with Roy Reads AnythingHelena Esser interviews Roy Bayfield about the most VPFA book club ever On YouTube, Roy Reads Anything heads up a year-long read-along that will be right up the VPFA members’ alley: We’ve got Marry… 052
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Victorian energy vampires ahoy! The Blood of the Vampire by Florence Marryat and some fellow travellers youtu.be/4FgXteJx6nA?... cc @madelinepotter.bsky.socialyoutu.bePsychic Vampires of Victorian Times | SPOILERS for Blood of the VampireYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 041
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Matie Corelli March begins x youtube.com/watch?v=YH8q...youtube.comMarie Corelli - Idol of Suburbia!YouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 000
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 27/02/2026It's a Leather Boys kind of afternoon – what a lovely edition. Book written 1961 & was filmed in 64 @deadinkbooks.bsky.social 011
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Occult Detectives! Review of the latest Occult Detective Mag + series recommendations including the amazing @abeewords.bsky.social Grave Expectations et seq. youtu.be/wU-_GT0IazU?...youtu.beOccult Detective Catchup: magazine review and series recommendationsYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 000
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 10/10/2025This 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...theguardian.com‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auctionExclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature, On the Road 010
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Really enjoyed talking Jane Austen with @19thcenturyem.bsky.social a PhD student with @ehunineteen.bsky.social - some great #JaneAustenJuly recommendations youtu.be/xeGNIo5qpds?...youtu.beJane Austen Conversation: Emma Butler, PhD student #janeaustenjulyYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 1105
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 01/07/2025...and happy Private Eye July! youtu.be/v-dt-L68_RY?...youtu.bePrivate Eye July TBR possibilities #PIJulyYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 000
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Happy #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?...youtu.beJane Austen July TBRYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 041
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 16/06/2025For 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?...youtu.beBloomsday Read Aloud | James Joyce | Ulysses & moreYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 020
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Enjoying #MrsDallowaysParty100 though beginning to wish I'd bought a nicer edition 120
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Working 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?... #bookskyyoutu.beHorror Mayhem 2025YouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 120
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Weekend reading – Ann Sheridan, mystery-solver 020
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Book Haul! Fungi ( via @blpublishing.bsky.social ), Ferns ( via @drfrond.bsky.social and others ), Female Hypnotists and Sweet Valley High ♥️ youtu.be/JKsNR9KjqnQ?...youtu.beBook Haul: Fungi - Ferns - Female Hypnotists - SVH in excelsisYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 141
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Reminiscing bout @whsmithofficial.bsky.social – home of genre fiction and downfall of my pocket money youtu.be/IC2HzQF6-bo #whsmith #tgjonesyoutu.beWHSmith memories | 70s paperback wonderlandYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 010
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Well this looks interesting... Female Hypnotists! Victorian & Edwardian! 030
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 25/03/2025About ready to join the fountain pen set – just need to re-learn handwriting ✒️ 290
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 20/03/2025@lejhouston.bsky.social I might have inherited a copy of Finnegans Wake once owned by you – if so, top cover-wrapping-up work 👍 110
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 08/03/2025A 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?...youtu.beFrankenstein Meets ARP Warden! #womenshistorymonthYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 021
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Lego Karamazov: Alyosha (with optional theological distress face) 010
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Moon Zero Two novelisation- good but no GoJos #booksky youtu.be/X8sB3g_g3zg?...youtu.beMoon Zero Two: Hammer SF novelisationYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 010
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Mail Call! Hollywood & God by @fantomas2go.bsky.social Found following the Barbara Payton trail; an initial skim reveals many thrills, tangents, clues... #poetrysky #booksky 021
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 17/02/2025A look at The Strand mag July 1891, ft. The first Sherlock Holmes short story A Scandal in Bohemia #booksky #victoriansky youtu.be/p1IVrcHUDuo?...youtu.beHolmes in The Strand Magazine #HolmesIsWhereTheHeartIsYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 040
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Y'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 020
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Currently 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. 041
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Reading about the closure of University of Wolverhampton's Telford Campus reminds me of its optimistic origins as a unit on a business park c1990 😢 010
Roy Reads Anything @edgerat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Reading project: 2001: A Space Odyssey and sequels - books, movies, comics... #booksky youtu.be/HyA15Xu_iHI?...youtu.be2001-3001 reading+watching plan - all the books, movies & comicsYouTube video by Roy Reads Anything 140
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