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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#nowreading CURTAIN UP: Agatha Christie - A Life in Theatre, by Julius Green #malewriter #nonfiction

ID: A photograph of the book cover. The top half is dominated by the title, in red, styled to resemble a neon sign on the front of a theatre, below which is the first part of the subtitle in a serif font, then the second part in a handwriting-style font, then the author’s name in an all-capitals sans-serif font. Across the bottom is a photograph of the doors of a theatre which is well-lit but closed

Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#nowreading the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series edition of TITUS ANDRONICUS, by William Shakespeare, edited by Curtis Perry and Ayanna Thompson #malewriter #femalewriter #play #classics #shakespeare

ID: A photograph of the front cover, featuring an illustration of olive leaves and fruit, intermingled with thorny branches, some of which drip blood. The illustration is rendered in reds, purples and blues against a black background

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Yeah, yeah, yeah, llamas, but why has nobody mentioned that one guy doing a piece to camera in the background?

A man in a white tunic stands facing two others with his arms wide, as if gesturing to the others’ television camera (which cannot be clearly seen)

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

#nowreading MEDEA and Other Plays, by Euripides, translated by James Morwood #malewriter #play

ID: Photograph of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of the book, featuring Eugène Delacroix’s painting Médée, which depicts a nude Medea holding her struggling sons in her arms and a dagger in her left hand, with her face in shadow to just below the eyes. The reproduction is cropped to remove Jason from the left of the painting, the direction in which Medea is looking. There is also a white strap towards the bottom of the design for the book’s details

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

#nowreading QUEER SHAKESPEARE: Desire and Sexuality, edited by Goran Stanivukovic #nonfiction #shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social

ID: Photograph of the book. The cover design consists of The Abduction of Ganymede by Rubens, which depicts Zeus, in the form of a black eagle, carrying the Trojan prince Ganymede off to be his lover and cup-bearer for his family. The editor credit and title are on the right, towards the bottom

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

#nowreading MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, by Bertolt Brecht. Translated by John Willett, edited by John Willett and Ralph Mannheim #malewriter #play

ID: Screenshot of the book’s cover. It has a pale blue border, with the same colour used for the author’s name and the title. The top fifth is dedicated to the title, author, translator and editors, and the rest consists of a production photo of Helene Weigel as Mother Courage in the 1949 Deutsches Theater production; she is wearing a plain, sturdy dress, with her hair held back in a kerchief, and sits with her feet on a large tin can, eyes downcast. Behind her is a bench lined up with wooden steins, with a tap and bucket beneath it, and there is a basket containing a couple of earthenware flagons on the floor in front of her

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

#nowreading THE DICTIONARY PEOPLE: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary, by Sarah Ogilvie #femalewriter #nonfiction @vintagebooks.bsky.social

ID: photo of the cover. The background is a deep green, with a gold embossed border. The word ‘Dictionary’ in the title and the author’s name are also embossed. Between the title and subtitle are line drawings of four people: a woman standing next to a large, fully-extended telescope, which stands on top of a pair of books, another woman holding a parasol while writing on a slip of paper which rests on a pile of three books with slips of paper marking pages, and which are perched on the end-edge of a suitcase, a man in a coat with many pockets, with a pair of books under his arm, and another man in a greatcoat and mortarboard taking notes from an open book with four more in a pile at his feet.

At the bottom of the cover is a quote from Jeanette Winterson, whose name is also embossed, which reads, ‘A wonder-book for word lovers’

There is also a strip of pattern down the left-hand edge, which is the Paisley-like design which is most associated with the end-papers of 19th-century hardbacks

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I’m pretty pleased with how I did on catfishing today. The three I missed, I would never have got anyway (what do I know of Youssou N’Dour, Euler, or military aircraft?)

Screenshot from catfishing.net, showing my (rather apt) score of 7 for today’s game, and that, of the 783 players so far today, only ten did better, with one each scoring 10 and 9, and the other eight scoring 8. It also shows that the average score is 3.1, and that I am in the top 2% so far today. The screenshot has been cropped to remove any references to the correct answers

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

#nowreading AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic, by Randy Shilts, #malewriter #nonfiction

ID: Cover art for Souvenir Press’ Independent Voices edition, featuring the Golden Gate Bridge stretching away into the fog, with a handful of surfers in the foreground of the bay. The design includes the following quote from Time, ‘Stunning … an impressively researched and richly detailed narrative’

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

#nowreading THE ADHD FIELD GUIDE FOR ADULTS, by Cait Osborn (@catieosaurus.bsky.social) and Erik Gude, with Rennie Dyball #femalewriter #malewriter #nonfiction #ADHD

ID: Photo of the book cover, which is bright yellow, with black text. The term ADHD has red, green and blue versions slightly offset in different directions, and there are decorative bars consisting of just this offset. There is also a quote—“Incredible”, from Alex Partridge—and, across the bottom, “Foreword by KC Davis, author of How to Keep House While Drowning”

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

#nowreading WHAT A RIPPER!: 60 Everyday Objects that Shaped Australia, by Tim Ross #malewriter #nonfiction

ID: Photo of the book cover. The background is a light teal, with the title and author name in yellow and the subtitle in white. The bulk of the cover design is nine images are arranged in a 3x3 grid. Top row: three young children on bicycles wearing Stackhats (bike helmets), a Dolphin torch, a family of five enjoying hot beverages presumably made from the pictured Kambrook Family Urn
Middle row: a blue Sebel Integra plastic chair with arms, Dennis Lillee in a yellow World Series Cricket uniform, a Frij (an insulated vinyl bag for keeping drinks cold)
Bottom row: a Telecom Touchfone telephone, a Café-bar, five Staysharp knives in a variety of colours

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I just randomly came across this pattern in a crochet magazine, and thought it was too good not to share. The pattern is in issue 136 of Simply Crochet magazine

Photograph of a crocheted pink armadillo, wearing a blue bow

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

#nowreading The Arden Early Modern Drama edition THE JEW OF MALTA, by Christopher Marlowe, edited by William H Sherman and Chloe Preedy #malewriter #play #ardenearlymoderndrama @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

ID: Photo of the book. The cover is an orange-brown, featuring the image of a pair of scales; the tray in the foreground has weights on it, but the contents of the other tray is not clear enough to make out. The image is overlaid with a faint image of coins

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Meanwhile in Australia … BOOOOO!

Just Watch advises that The Littlest Hobo is not currently available to watch in Australia

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

#nowreading DARK RENAISSANCE: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe, by Stephen Greenblatt #malewriter #nonfiction

ID: Photo of the book cover, featuring a portrait, believed to be of Marlowe, by an anonymous painter, arranged such that only the left side of his face is visible, his brown eyes gazing steadily out at the viewer. His collar-length brown hair flows out from the side of his head and he has a light beard shading his jawline but leaving his cheeks bare. He wears a black doublet with a white collar and red buttons, patterned with red diagonal lines which look like an interrupted zigzag pattern

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

#nowreading THE BOYS IN THE BAND, by Mart Crowley #play #malewriter #queertheatre You can see from the price sticker that this copy cost me one (1) dollar. The price on Amazon is currently $141.99 AUD, for the exact same edition

ID: Photo of my op shop copy of the 1970 Penguin Plays edition. The cover is black and pink against a white background. The bottom third consists of a pink panel with the silhouettes of, presumably, the original cast in black. The title is in an arc around a semicircular extension above that panel, which contains the playwright’s name in white ‘Penguin Plays’ appears across the top of the design, spelled out in letters made up of dots, to simulate theatre lights

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Watching an old episode of Murder, She Wrote and I just have to share this Extremely 1986 hairdo

Still from the season 2 episode, Murder in the Electric Cathedral, showing a woman on the phone with the 80s-est hair that ever did 80s. The back is fairly short and the sides are swept back, but the front looks like it was teased for a good hour

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

#nowreading ALGOSPEAK: How Social Media is Transforming the Future of Language, by Adam Aleksic #malewriter #nonfiction #linguistics #newrelease

ID: Photograph of the book. Tyler Comrie‘s cover design is off-white with pale blue text and a cloud of hand-drawn emoji in yellow and orange, illustrated by Ben Hickey. The emoji create a negative space in the shape of a speech bubble, which contains the book’s subtitle

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Daniel Kilby @eurotrashed.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

You will be visited by three spirits

Poster art for The Trouble With Harry featuring, from top, Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe, and Edmund Gwenn

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