Name: Magic Mountain Thomas Mann Readalong | November-December 2026 @royreadsanything
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Magic Mountain Thomas Mann Readalong | November-December 2026

Roy Reads Anything 2026-09-27 | Magic Mountain Thomas Mann Readalong | November-December 2026

Matilda by Hilaire Belloc read by Jennie #poetrythursday

Roy Reads Anything 2024-11-28 | Matilda by Hilaire Belloc
CW housefire
Book cover image credit Keir Hardie scatterkeir 'Puffin PS67' via Flickr
License CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Poem text with illustrations
heritage-history.com/?c=read&author=belloc&book=cautionary&story=matilda

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Psychic Sleuths Caspian and Bronwen #occultdetectiveoctober

Roy Reads Anything 2024-11-25 | Books mentioned:
The Devil's Footsteps
The Black Charade
Ladygrove
all by John Burke and available from Borgos Press/Wildside Press

OCCULT DETECTIVE OCTOBER was a month-long celebration (with overtime) of the supernatural sleuth genre...

Themed Weeks:
Week 1: Pre-1960
Week 2: Post-1960
Week 3: Diverse Author or Character
Week 4: "Anything Goes!"

Event ctreated b y @M-J with cohosts:
‪@anotherbibliophilereads‬ @anotherbibliophilereads
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‪@CriminOllyBlog‬ @CriminOllyBlog
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‪@occultdetective‬ @occultdetective
‪@SynsBookNook‬ @SynsBookNook
‪@royreadsanything‬ me
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‪@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn‬ @MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn
‪@RaynorReadsStuff‬ @RaynorReadsStuff
‪@bighardbooks770‬ @bighardbooks770
‪@LiterateTexan‬ @LiterateTexan

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Red Sonja Consumed | Gail Simone | Spoiler Free Review

Roy Reads Anything 2024-11-21 | Red Sonja Consumed, Gail Simone, Orbit (2024)

Channel mentioned:
@art.and.lit.matters
Margaret Brundage video therein:
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A Christmas Carol x10: classic, rip-off, comics, sequels + more

Roy Reads Anything 2024-11-18 | Dickens Christmas Books Readalong @katiejlumsden announcement:
youtu.be/AMgGhzhp-OI?si=XqSsydtA9_mPriyL

Novelization & Tie-in 'Tember @ITCamefromthePage announcement:
youtu.be/SPb6_vK0Lws?si=LJWDpuse8wN1ZQSV

Channel mentioned @booksimnotreading

Books mentioned

+ _A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books_, Charles Dickens, Oxford World Classics (contains the readalong books)
+ _The Annotated Christmas Carol_, Charles Dickens, ed. Michael Patrick Hearn
+ _Parley's Library_
+ _Christmas Shadows_, W. M. Swepstone (1850) - on Google Books
+ _A Christmas Carol: The Book of the Film_, uncredited, Disney
+ _A Christmas Carol_, Charles Dickens, Classics Illustrated Comics
+ _The Spectre_ 12, 2002, DeMatteis/Sook/Royal
+ _Batman: Noël_, Lee Bermejo
+ _Mr Timothy_, Louis Bayard
+ _Chains: The Untold Story of Jacob Marley_, Ian Hayles
+ _I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas_, Adam Roberts
+ _A Christmas Carol and Pther Christmas Writings_, Charles Dickens, Penguin Classics

Audion mentioned @listenwithaudrey
listenwithaudrey.com/our-books-library?pgid=lpb467ez-979fe4bb-1f13-4a9e-ad35-09c23b107792

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A Corpse Going to a Ball #PoetryThursday

Roy Reads Anything 2024-11-14 | Reading and discussion of 'A Corpse Going to a Ball' (1843), attributed to Seba Smith but thought to be by Elizabeth Baines Smith

Mudlarking channel mentioned @NorthernMudlarks
A video where they find one of these dolls!:
youtu.be/AqmIvlJnrrE?si=isx1-T8hGvyMYPri

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Return to Oz novelisations

Roy Reads Anything 2024-11-13 | Event created by @ITCamefromthePage
Announcement video: youtu.be/SPb6_vK0Lws?si=MdGnOTUJvwo0Rhux

Books mentioned:
Return to Oz, Joan D. Vinge
Return to Oz, Alistair Hedley

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Victober 2024 reads watches and listens

Roy Reads Anything 2024-11-04 | Books mentioned:

_Armadale_ by Wilkie Collins
_Cecilia de Noël_ by Lanoe Falconer (Mary Hawker) 🦅
_The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins_
_The Doctor's Wife_by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Audio:
Anthony Trollope Barchester Chronicles (_Dr Thorne_ , _Framley Parsonage_)
_A Study in Scarlet_, Arthur Conan Doyle from Audrey @listenwithaudrey

Play watched:
_London Assurance_, National Theatre production @NationalTheatre

Victober deets:

Hosts:
Books and Things @katiejlumsden
Kate Howe @katehowereads
Marissa ‪‬ @BlatantlyBookish
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

The Challenges

Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where religion is a component of the story
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that plays with form in some way
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that was originally serialised
Ros’s challenge: Experience Victorian drama: read, watch or listen to a Victorian play

Group challenge: Read a Victorian work by Wilkie Collins and/or by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
in honour of Jennifer Brooks and Alice and the Giant Bookshelf

The Group Read
The Doctor’s Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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Tam Lin (traditional ballad) read by Jennie #poetrythursday

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-31 | There are many variations on Tam Lin, many on the web.
We used the Fairport lyrics version: tam-lin.org/versions/fair.html
The album mentioned is Liege and Lief (1969) music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_niWfZgnz6FLFBpViLlVKWkLzZqjcfS0xY&si=KpDqPapkxYgoeVaG

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Victober + Occult Detective Short Stories

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-25 | Books mentioned:
The Ghost Stories of Wilkie Collins, Wilkie Collins, edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes, British Library Publishing
The Dyson Chronicles, Arthur Machen, Coachwhip Publications
Ghostly Clients and Demonic Culprits, ed. Tim Prasil, Brombones Books
Eyes of Terror, L T Meade, Swan River Books
The Black Hand, Arthur Reeve

OCCULT DETECTIVE OCTOBER is a month-long celebration of the supernatural sleuth genre...

Event ctreated b y @M-J
with cohosts:
‪@anotherbibliophilereads‬ @anotherbibliophilereads @anotherbibliophilereads
‪@fiberartsyreads‬ @fiberartsyreads @fiberartsyreads
‪@CriminOllyBlog‬ @CriminOllyBlog @CriminOllyBlog
‪@michaelk.vaughan8617‬ @michaelk.vaughan8617 @michaelk.vaughan8617 (battling Varney the Vampire)
‪@occultdetective‬ @occultdetective @occultdetective
‪@SynsBookNook‬ @SynsBookNook @SynsBookNook
‪@royreadsanything‬ me
‪@bookssongsandothermagic‬ @bookssongsandothermagic @bookssongsandothermagic
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‪@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn‬ @MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn @MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn
‪@RaynorReadsStuff‬ @RaynorReadsStuff @RaynorReadsStuff
‪@bighardbooks770‬ @bighardbooks770
@LiterateTexan

Guiding us through the aether Dave Brzeski of Occult Detective Magazine!

VICTOBER HOSTS:
‪‬ @katiejlumsden
‪ @katehowereads
‪‬ @BlatantlyBookish
‪‬ @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

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Victorian Literature Journey tag #tagtuesday #victober

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-21 | Victorian Literature tag devised by @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 @tillysshelf
based on the Shakespeare Journey tag from @booksimnotreading @OldBluesChapterandVerse @adayofsmallthings

Ros's Original Tag Video:
• youtu.be/tAk_vkiHq8I?si=KIlyLkhMJrcd9yXc

Tilly's original tag video:
• youtu.be/euko8z3H84U?si=fqkrT5FzTkTZLWHr

Kelly's Original Shakespeare Journey Tag:
• youtu.be/KA6oUTXQHrw?si=m-HRkj0JBX4frq14

Books mentioned:
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Various fantasy novels, William Morris
The Beetle, Richard Marsh
Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Doctor's Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Dracula, Bram Stoker

Other media:
Oliver! movie (1968)
Daniel Deronda (BBC)
Sherlock Holmes, staring Jeremy Brett (Granada/ITV)

Course mentioned:
MA Nineteenth Century Studies, ‎@edgehillnineteen4987 ‎@EdgeHillUniversity

Questions
1.What was your first experience reading Victorian literature and how was it?

2. Has the reading of a Victorian book ever brought you to tears? If so tell us more.

3. Are there any people who have played a significant role in your Victorian literature journey?

4. Do you have a favourite film or TV adaptation of a Victorian book? What about one you'd like to see made?

5. Which character in Victorian literature most resembles you, or you identify with most?

6. Do you have a favourite moment, scene or line from Victorian literature? Tell us about it or read it to us.

7. Does any Victorian literature intimidate you? If so, what and why.

8. What tips would you give to someone early on in their Victorian literature journey?

9. What is your top recommended read for other readers of Victorian literature?

10. Tag people. [Which I forgot to do! Tag yourself if you so desire.]

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Robert E Howards Panthers 🐆🇬🇧: UK 70s paperbacks | #shorts #vintagepaperbacks

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-19 | ...

Novelisation and Tie-in Tember TBR

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-18 | Event created by @ITCamefromthePage
Announcement video: youtu.be/SPb6_vK0Lws?si=MdGnOTUJvwo0Rhux

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Ballantine Fantasy anthologies #shorts #victober #fantasy

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-18 | Following on from the Ballantine Adult Fantasy novels shown in previous shorts, here are the collections of shorter works from the series. These also re-presented Victorian-era authors to us fantasy hounds, including Poe, Wilde, Browning (bloke), Tennyson, Robert Steele, Robert W Chambers, Ernest Bramah and old lags William Morris and George MacDonald.

The Lost Continent, C J Cutliffe-Hyne (1899/1972) Victorian BAF 🦄 covers #shorts #victober #fantasy

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-17 | Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperbacks in the 70s brought back several Victorian stories to fill the void in 'imaginary world' fiction left by Tolkien. As it's #Victober I'm showing some of them off (in order of original C19th publication). *This is the last of the Victorian Era novels.* There were ≈ 65 books in the series which included C20th work and new publications from contemporary authors.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles, William Morris (1897/1971) Victorian BAF 🦄 covers #shorts #victober

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-16 | Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperbacks in the 70s brought back several Victorian stories to fill the void in 'imaginary world' fiction left by Tolkien. As it's #Victober I'm showing some of them off (in order of original C19th publication).

Occult Detective October progress

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-15 | Books mentioned:
An Unkindness of Shadows, John Linwood Grant
Ghost Talker, @byrdnashbooks
Cecilia de Noel, Lanoe Falconer (Mary Hawker)
John Bell, Ghost Exposer, L T Meade and Robert Eustace

Article mentioned:
“‘A Medium Made of Such Uncommon Stuff’: The Female Occult Investigator in Victorian Women’s Fin-de-Siècle Supernatural Fiction.” Preternature, vol. 8, no. 1, Fall 2019, 254-282.

OCCULT DETECTIVE OCTOBER is a month-long celebration of the supernatural sleuth genre...

Themed Weeks:
Week 1: Pre-1960
Week 2: Post-1960
Week 3: Diverse Author or Character
Week 4: "Anything Goes!"

Event ctreated b y @M-J
with cohosts:
‪@anotherbibliophilereads‬ @anotherbibliophilereads @anotherbibliophilereads
‪@fiberartsyreads‬ @fiberartsyreads @fiberartsyreads
‪@CriminOllyBlog‬ @CriminOllyBlog @CriminOllyBlog
‪@michaelk.vaughan8617‬ @michaelk.vaughan8617 @michaelk.vaughan8617 (battling Varney the Vampire)
‪@occultdetective‬ @occultdetective @occultdetective
‪@SynsBookNook‬ @SynsBookNook @SynsBookNook
‪@royreadsanything‬ me
‪@bookssongsandothermagic‬ @bookssongsandothermagic @bookssongsandothermagic
‪@art.and.lit.matters‬ @art.and.lit.matters @art.and.lit.matters
‪@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn‬ @MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn @MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn
‪@RaynorReadsStuff‬ @RaynorReadsStuff @RaynorReadsStuff
‪@bighardbooks770‬ @bighardbooks770
@LiterateTexan

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The Sundering Flood, William Morris (1896/1973) - Victorian BAF 🦄 covers #shorts #victober #fantasy

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-15 | ...hence the old Morris collector's quip: 'Have you got _The Sundering Flood_? Or is it just the way you walk?'

Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperbacks in the 70s brought back several Victorian stories to fill the void in 'imaginary world' fiction left by Tolkien. As it's #Victober I'm showing some of them off (in order of original C19th publication).

The Well @ the Worlds End, Wm Morris (1896/1970) Victorian BAF 🦄 covers #shorts #victober #fantasy

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-14 | Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperbacks in the 70s brought back several Victorian stories to fill the void in 'imaginary world' fiction left by Tolkien. As it's #Victober I'm showing some of them off (in order of original C19th publication).

Lilith, George MacDonald (1895/1969) - Victorian BAF 🦄 covers #shorts #victober #fantasy

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-13 | Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperbacks in the 70s brought back several Victorian stories to fill the void in 'imaginary world' fiction left by Tolkien. As it's #Victober I'm showing some of them off (in order of original C19th publication).

The Wood Beyond the World, William Morris (1895/1969) - Victorian BAF 🦄 #shorts #victober #fantasy

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-12 | Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperbacks in the 70s brought back several Victorian stories to fill the void in 'imaginary world' fiction left by Tolkien. As it's #Victober I'm showing some of them off (in order of original C19th publication).

The People of the Mist, Haggard (1894/1973) - Victorian BAF 🦄 covers #shorts #victober #fantasy

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-11 | Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperbacks in the 70s brought back several Victorian stories to fill the void in 'imaginary world' fiction left by Tolkien. As it's #Victober I'm showing some of them off (in order of original C19th publication).

Unboxing Massive Conan Omnibus

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Khaled, F. Marion Crawford (1891/1971) - Victorian BAF 🦄 covers #shorts #victober #fantasy

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-10 | Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperbacks in the 70s brought back several Victorian stories to fill the void in 'imaginary world' fiction left by Tolkien. As it's #Victober I'm showing some of them off (in order of original publication).

Khaled isn't strictly a Victober read as Crawford was an American writer - I won't tell if you don’t 🤫 (He was popular in the UK.)

In an Artists Studio by Christina Rossetti | read by Jennie | for #victober

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-09 | In an Artist's Studio by Christina Rossetti

Poem text: poetryfoundation.org/poems/146804/in-an-artist39s-studio

#Victober is a month long celebration of Victorian literature
Created by Katie @katiejlumsden
with co-hosts @katehowereads @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 @BlatantlyBookish

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The Three Imposters, Arthur Machen (1890/1972) - Victorian BAF 🦄 covers #shorts #victober #fantasy

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-09 | Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperbacks in the 70s brought back several Victorian stories to fill the void in 'imaginary world' fiction left by Tolkien. As it's #Victober I'm showing some of them off (in order of original publication).

Victorian BAF 🦄 covers: The Worlds Desire, Haggard & Lang (1890/1972) #shorts #victober #fantasy

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-08 | Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperbacks in the 70s brought back several Victorian stories to fill the void in 'imaginary world' fiction left by Tolkien. As it's #Victober I'm showing some of them off (in order of original publication).

Read Yellowback Novels at your peril!

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-07 | In which I talk about yellowbacks, yellowjackets and those racy French novels of the nineteenth century.

A video in the slipstream of #Victober the event celebrating Victorian literature hosted by
Books and Things @katiejlumsden
Kate Howe @katehowereads
Marissa ‪‬ @BlatantlyBookish
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

Mentioned also #Garbaugust created by @CriminOllyBlog
and Kelly @booksimnotreading

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Victorian BAF 🦄 covers: Evenor, George MacDonald (1867/1972) #shorts #victober #fantasy

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-07 | Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperbacks in the 70s brought back several Victorian stories to fill the void in 'imaginary world' fiction left by Tolkien. As it's #Victober I'm showing some of them off (in order of original publication).

Victorian BAF 🦄 covers: Phantastes by George MacDonald (1858/1970) #shorts #victober #fantasy

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-06 | Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperbacks in the 70s brought back several Victorian stories to fill the void in 'imaginary world' fiction left by Tolkien. As it's #Victober I'm showing some of them off (in order of original publication).

Victorian BAF 🦄 covers: The Shaving of Shagpat (1855/1970) #shorts #victober #fantasy

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-05 | Ballantine Adult Fantasy paperbacks in the 70s brought back several Victorian stories to fill the void in 'imaginary world' fiction left by Tolkien. As it's #Victober I'm showing some of them off (in order of original publication).

_The Shaving of Shagpat_ by George Meredith, an Orientalist fantasy, first appeared in 1855.

Margaret Denzils History: forgotten sensation novel #victober

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-03 | In which I talk about *Margaret Denzil's History (Annotated by Her Husband)* by Frederick Greenwood (initially rumoured be written by several others, including Her Majesty), as serialised in _The Cornhill Magazine_ 1863-64 and published by Smith, Elder & Co as a two-volume novel in 1864.

Victober deets:

Hosts:
Books and Things @katiejlumsden
Kate Howe @katehowereads
Marissa ‪‬ @BlatantlyBookish
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

The Challenges

Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where religion is a component of the story
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that plays with form in some way
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that was originally serialised
Ros’s challenge: Experience Victorian drama: read, watch or listen to a Victorian play

Group challenge: Read a Victorian work by Wilkie Collins and/or by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
in honour of Jennifer Brooks and Alice and the Giant Bookshelf

The Group Read
The Doctor’s Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Reading from 1 October to 18 October

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Losing the Dark by Jean Sprackland read by Jennie #poetrythursday

Roy Reads Anything 2024-10-02 | Losing the Dark by Jean Sprackland is in the collection *Hard Water*, Cape (2003).

Poet website: jeansprackland.com

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The Cozy Coffee Mug Tag #tagtuesday

Roy Reads Anything 2024-09-30 | The Cozy Coffee Mug Tag was devised by Jen @literarylove123
Tag video: youtu.be/XM-LcPF_Iyk?si=8gl99XzRMAUQrFPE

I was tagged by @Montie-Adkins

Prompts:
1.Hex the Patriarchy: Share your favorite women authors.
2. Never Underestimate a Woman Who Reads Stephen King Books: Share your favorite fictional women characters.
3. Edgar Allan Poe: Share your favorite Gothic book or story.
4. Swiftea: Name your auto-buy authors.
5. Camp Crystal Lake: Share a book that makes you feel nostalgic.
6. Happy Halloween: Share a holiday-themed book that you recommend.
7. This Mug Contains Magic: Share a book you enjoyed that is outside of your comfort zone/typical genre.
8. Tag some bookish friends.‬

Channel mentioned: @M-J

'Birdie Num Num' article by Wajahat Ali: pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/this-caricature-was-once-celebrated-by-a-generation-starving-for-representation/33933

I tagged @backawayfromthedonkey @bigaldoesbooktube1097

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Occult Detective starter kit recs #occultdetectiveoctober

Roy Reads Anything 2024-09-29 | Books mentioned:
The Weiser Book of Occult Detectives, ed. Judika Illes
Occult Detective Magazine
Occult Detective Mythos Special 2
Jules de Grandon series, Seabury Quinn
Dracula, Bram Stoker
In a Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu
The Dyson Chronicles, Arthur Machen
The Complete John Silence Stories, Algernon Blackwood
The Smino Iff Stories, Aleister Crowley
The Secrets of Doctor Taverner, Dion Fortune
The Undying Monster, Jessie Douglas Kerruish
Rivers of London series, Ben Aaranovitch
Charlie Parker series, John Connolly

OCCULT DETECTIVE OCTOBER is a month-long celebration of the supernatural sleuth genre...

Themed Weeks:
Week 1: Pre-1960
Week 2: Post-1960
Week 3: Diverse Author or Character
Week 4: "Anything Goes!"

Event ctreated b y @M-J with cohosts:
‪@anotherbibliophilereads‬ @anotherbibliophilereads
‪@fiberartsyreads‬ @fiberartsyreads
‪@CriminOllyBlog‬ @CriminOllyBlog
‪@michaelk.vaughan8617‬ @michaelk.vaughan8617 (battling Varney the Vampire)
‪@occultdetective‬ @occultdetective
‪@SynsBookNook‬ @SynsBookNook
‪@royreadsanything‬ me
‪@bookssongsandothermagic‬ @bookssongsandothermagic
‪@art.and.lit.matters‬ @art.and.lit.matters
‪@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn‬ @MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn
‪@RaynorReadsStuff‬ @RaynorReadsStuff
‪@bighardbooks770‬ @bighardbooks770
‪@LiterateTexan‬ @LiterateTexan

Guiding us through the aether Dave Brzeski of Occult Detective Magazine!

Check out Occult Detective Magazine here:
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Book Haul! all the genres!

Roy Reads Anything 2024-09-26 | Books mentioned:
Skull-Face Omnibus, Robert E. Howard
The Avengers (UK) 102-107
England Swings SF, ed. Judith Merril
Ann Sheridan and trhe Sign of the Sphinx, Kathryn Heisenfelt
Untethered, Philippa Holloway, Parthian Press
The Secrets of Hartwood Hall, Katie Lumsden
The Story of the Pall Mall Gazette, Robertson Scott
Nurse in London, Jane Converse
Huge, Brent Butt

Event mentioned:
Cimmerian September, @michaelk.vaughan8617

@ShawnDStandfast on 'speculative fiction', related to 'New Wave SF' youtu.be/TsDvU9nQuIw?si=ONlZV7-B02ZnPJF4

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Occult Detective October 2024 TBR

Roy Reads Anything 2024-09-24 | Books mentioned:
John Bell: Master of Mysteries, L T Meade and Robert Eustace
An Unkindness of Shadows, John Linwood Grant
Widdershins (Whyborne and Griffin Mysteries), Jordan L Hawk
Sherlock Holmes and the Occukt Detectives, ed. John Linwood Grant
Occult Detective Magazine Mythos Special 2
Eyes of Terror, L T Meade
Cecilia de Noel, Lanoe Falconer

OCCULT DETECTIVE OCTOBER is a month-long celebration of the supernatural sleuth genre...

Themed Weeks:
Week 1: Pre-1960
Week 2: Post-1960
Week 3: Diverse Author or Character
Week 4: "Anything Goes!"

Event ctreated b y @M-J with cohosts:
‪@anotherbibliophilereads‬ @anotherbibliophilereads
‪@fiberartsyreads‬ @fiberartsyreads
‪@CriminOllyBlog‬ @CriminOllyBlog
‪@michaelk.vaughan8617‬ @michaelk.vaughan8617 (battling Varney the Vampire)
‪@occultdetective‬ @occultdetective
‪@SynsBookNook‬ @SynsBookNook
‪@royreadsanything‬ me
‪@bookssongsandothermagic‬ @bookssongsandothermagic
‪@art.and.lit.matters‬ @art.and.lit.matters
‪@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn‬ @MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn
‪@RaynorReadsStuff‬ @RaynorReadsStuff
‪@bighardbooks770‬ @bighardbooks770
‪@LiterateTexan‬ @LiterateTexan

Guiding us through the aether Dave Brzeski of Occult Detective Magazine!

Check out Occult Detective Magazine here:
http://greydogtales.com/blog/occult-detective-magazine

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Actual bookworm spotted in the wild 🐛 #shorts

Roy Reads Anything 2024-09-23 | ...

Cymbeline: Shakespeares Multiverse of Madness #shaketember

Roy Reads Anything 2024-09-22 | Cymbeline by William Shakesepeare
Read: Folger and Cambridge
Watched: BBC (1982), RSC (2017), movie retitled Anarchy (2014)

Shaketember is a month-long celebration of all things Shakespeare, hosted by Jason ‪@OldBluesChapterandVerse Kelly @booksimnotreading and Nicole‪ @adayofsmallthings

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My #Victober 2024 TBR: sensation - hauntings - hands

Roy Reads Anything 2024-09-19 | Books and Periodicals mentioned:
*The Doctor's Wife*, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
*Armadale*, Wilkie Collins
*Margaret Denzil's History (Annotated by Her Husband)*, Frederick Greenwood
_*The Cornhill Magazine*_
*Cecilia de Noël*, Lanoe Falconer (Mary Elizabeth Hawker)
*John Bell: Master of Mystery* (6 story series), L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace
_*Cassell's Family Magazine*_
_'The Brown Hand'_ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in *Ghostly Clients and Demonic Culprits: The Roots of Occult Detective Fiction*, ed. Tim Prasil
_'The Red Hand'_ by Arthur Machen in *The Dyson Chronicles*
_'The Dead Hand'_ by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, in *Eyes of Terror and Other Dark Adventures, ed. Janis Dawson*

Victober deets:

Hosts:
Books and Things @katiejlumsden
Kate Howe @katehowereads
Marissa ‪‬ @BlatantlyBookish
Ros @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711

The Challenges

Kate’s challenge: Read a Victorian book where religion is a component of the story
Katie’s challenge: Read a Victorian book that plays with form in some way
Marissa’s challenge: Read a Victorian work that was originally serialised
Ros’s challenge: Experience Victorian drama: read, watch or listen to a Victorian play

Group challenge: Read a Victorian work by Wilkie Collins and/or by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
in honour of Jennifer Brooks and Alice and the Giant Bookshelf

The Group Read
The Doctor’s Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Reading from 1 October to 18 October

Occult Detective October deets:

Themed Weeks:
Week 1: Pre-1960
Week 2: Post-1960
Week 3: Diverse Author or Character
Week 4: "Anything Goes!"

Event ctreated by ‪@M-J with cohosts:
‪@anotherbibliophilereads‬ ‪
‪@fiberartsyreads‬
‪@CriminOllyBlog‬ ‪
‪@michaelk.vaughan8617‬ ‪ (battling Varney the Vampire)
‪@occultdetective‬ ‪
‪@SynsBookNook‬ ‪
‪@royreadsanything‬
‪@bookssongsandothermagic‬ ‪‬
‪@art.and.lit.matters‬
‪@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn‬ ‪
‪@RaynorReadsStuff‬ ‪
‪@bighardbooks770‬ ‪
‪@LiterateTexan‬ ‪

Guiding us through the aether Dave Brzeski of Occult Detective Magazine!

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Fear No More the Heat o the Sun: William Shakespeare #shaketember #poetrythursday

Roy Reads Anything 2024-09-18 | Fear No More the Heat of the Sun by William Shakespeare
from _Cymbeline_ Act IV Scene ii
Poem text poetryfoundation.org/poems/50428/song-fear-no-more-the-heat-o-the-sun-

Shaketember is a month-long celebration of all things Shakespeare, hosted by Jason ‪@OldBluesChapterandVerse Kelly @booksimnotreading Nicole‪ @adayofsmallthings

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Robert E Howard in Orbit | 70s Brit paperbacks #CimmerianSeptember

Roy Reads Anything 2024-09-13 | Cimmerian September created by @michaelk.vaughan8617

Characters mentioned El Borak, Kirby O'Donnell, Bran Mak Morn, Kull, Conan

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Occult Detective October 2024 announcement

Roy Reads Anything 2024-09-05 | OCCULT DETECTIVE OCTOBER is a month-long celebration of the supernatural sleuth genre...

Themed Weeks:
Week 1: Pre-1960
Week 2: Post-1960
Week 3: Diverse Author or Character
Week 4: "Anything Goes!"

Event ctreated b y @M-J with cohosts:
‪@anotherbibliophilereads‬ @anotherbibliophilereads
‪@fiberartsyreads‬ @fiberartsyreads
‪@CriminOllyBlog‬ @CriminOllyBlog
‪@michaelk.vaughan8617‬ @michaelk.vaughan8617 (battling Varney the Vampire)
‪@occultdetective‬ @occultdetective
‪@SynsBookNook‬ @SynsBookNook
‪@royreadsanything‬ me
‪@bookssongsandothermagic‬ @bookssongsandothermagic
‪@art.and.lit.matters‬ @art.and.lit.matters
‪@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn‬ @MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn
‪@RaynorReadsStuff‬ @RaynorReadsStuff
‪@bighardbooks770‬ @bighardbooks770
‪@LiterateTexan‬ @LiterateTexan

Guiding us through the aether Dave Brzeski of Occult Detective Magazine!

Check out Occult Detective Magazine here:
http://greydogtales.com/blog/occult-detective-magazine

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Revelations 01/01/2022 by Jane Burn | read by Jennie

Roy Reads Anything 2024-09-04 | 'Revelations 01/01/2022' by Jane Burn
from the collection The Apothecary of Flight (Nine Arches, 2024)
@NineArchesPress
ninearchespress.com
janeburnpoet.wordpress.com

Read with kind permission of Jane Burn

Also mentioned: Fast Speaking Woman, Anne Waldman (City Lights, 1996)

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Last Days of Pompeii / last book of #garbaugust

Roy Reads Anything 2024-09-03 | The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton

Channel mentioned: @GenreBooks23

Garbaugust devised by @CriminOllyBlog
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Weekly prompts:
1st to 10th August - Anything Goes
11th to 17th August - Category Romance or Men's Adventure
18th to 24th August - Sex and/or Violence
25th to 31st August - A novelisation or a book that was turned into a 70s or 80s mini series
___
The Garbingo card:
Modern trash
Host recommendation
Trash in translation
Green on the cover
Nudity on the cover/poster
You wouldn't read/watch on the bus
In 3D - 3D movie or stepback
Killer Kids
Cults
Sexy Vampires
Vigilantes
Moral Panic
Long running series
Killer animals
Conspiracy theory
Pseudonym
More than 2 guns on the cover
Based on a videogame
Gangs
! in the title
Weirdly specific sub-genre
Kinky sex
Drugs
Ninjas/Martial arts
Giallo
____
Instagram prompts:
1st to 10th August - TBR stack
11th to 17th August - Happy GarbAugust selfie
18th to 24th August - Fave trashy book or author
25th to 31st August - Your trashiest covers

Garbaugust hosts:
@CriminOllyBlog - Screaming, Creaming Olly @CriminOllyBlog
@M-J - Sleazing This Life @M-J
@ObscureBookAdventures - Obscene Boob Adventures @ObscureBookAdventures
@RaynorReadsStuff Raynor Wants it Rough @RaynorReadsStuff
@anotherbooktubechannel - Another Buttplug Canal @anotherbooktubechannel
@anotherbibliophilereads - Another Boobiephile Reads Playboy for the Articles
@fiberartsyreads - Fibertarty @fiberartsyreads
@bookboundweirdo - Bookbound Dildo @cafecryptic
@bookssongsandothermagic - Boobs, Dongs and Other Magic @bookssongsandothermagic
@SlimeAndSlashers - Slimey Splashers @SlimeAndSlashers
@royreadsanything - Roys Reads Anything (wink)
@thebookishknitter - The Bondage Knitter @thebookishknitter
@michellesmelancholia - Michelle's Melons Cholia @michellesmelancholia
@katrinabrown - Kaboner Grown @katrinabrown
@alex_unabridged - Al Licks Under a Bridge @alex_unabridged
@michaelk.vaughan8617 - Michael K Porn @michaelk.vaughan8617
@BookBlather - Boob Lather @BookBlather
@kellyhookedonbooks4394 - Kelly Hooked on Dino Smut @kellyhookedonbooks4394
@TheBookubus The Boob Anus @TheBookubus
@AnnNovella - Ann Poubella @AnnNovella
@saintdonoghue - Steve Done a few @saintdonoghue

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The Muslim Cowboy by Bruce Omar Yates: review

Roy Reads Anything 2024-09-03 | The Muslim Cowboy
by Bruce Omar Yates
deadinkbooks.com/product/the-muslim-cowboy
@deadinkbooks3272

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Enter the Dragon novelisation (1973) #garbaugust

Roy Reads Anything 2024-08-30 | Enter the Dragon by Mike Roote (Leoneore Fleischer), Tandem 1973

Garbaugust devised by @CriminOllyBlog
____
Weekly prompts:
1st to 10th August - Anything Goes
11th to 17th August - Category Romance or Men's Adventure
18th to 24th August - Sex and/or Violence
25th to 31st August - A novelisation or a book that was turned into a 70s or 80s mini series
___
The Garbingo card:
Modern trash
Host recommendation
Trash in translation
Green on the cover
Nudity on the cover/poster
You wouldn't read/watch on the bus
In 3D - 3D movie or stepback
Killer Kids
Cults
Sexy Vampires
Vigilantes
Moral Panic
Long running series
Killer animals
Conspiracy theory
Pseudonym
More than 2 guns on the cover
Based on a videogame
Gangs
! in the title
Weirdly specific sub-genre
Kinky sex
Drugs
Ninjas/Martial arts
Giallo
____
Instagram prompts:
1st to 10th August - TBR stack
11th to 17th August - Happy GarbAugust selfie
18th to 24th August - Fave trashy book or author
25th to 31st August - Your trashiest covers

Garbaugust hosts:
@CriminOllyBlog - Screaming, Creaming Olly @CriminOllyBlog
@M-J - Sleazing This Life @M-J
@ObscureBookAdventures - Obscene Boob Adventures @ObscureBookAdventures
@RaynorReadsStuff Raynor Wants it Rough @RaynorReadsStuff
@anotherbooktubechannel - Another Buttplug Canal @anotherbooktubechannel
@anotherbibliophilereads - Another Boobiephile Reads Playboy for the Articles
@fiberartsyreads - Fibertarty @fiberartsyreads
@bookboundweirdo - Bookbound Dildo @cafecryptic
@bookssongsandothermagic - Boobs, Dongs and Other Magic @bookssongsandothermagic
@SlimeAndSlashers - Slimey Splashers @SlimeAndSlashers
@royreadsanything - Roys Reads Anything (wink)
@thebookishknitter - The Bondage Knitter @thebookishknitter
@michellesmelancholia - Michelle's Melons Cholia @michellesmelancholia
@katrinabrown - Kaboner Grown @katrinabrown
@alex_unabridged - Al Licks Under a Bridge @alex_unabridged
@michaelk.vaughan8617 - Michael K Porn @michaelk.vaughan8617
@BookBlather - Boob Lather @BookBlather
@kellyhookedonbooks4394 - Kelly Hooked on Dino Smut @kellyhookedonbooks4394
@TheBookubus The Boob Anus @TheBookubus
@AnnNovella - Ann Poubella @AnnNovella
@saintdonoghue - Steve Done a few @saintdonoghue

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Ten Nights in a Bar-Room: and what I saw there | 19th-century Temperance novel

Roy Reads Anything 2024-08-29 | For the 'Moral Panic' Garbingo square I read 'Ten Nights in a Bar-room and What I Saw There' by Timothy Shay Arthur

Garbaugust devised by @CriminOllyBlog
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Weekly prompts:
1st to 10th August - Anything Goes
11th to 17th August - Category Romance or Men's Adventure
18th to 24th August - Sex and/or Violence
25th to 31st August - A novelisation or a book that was turned into a 70s or 80s mini series
___
The Garbingo card:
Modern trash
Host recommendation
Trash in translation
Green on the cover
Nudity on the cover/poster
You wouldn't read/watch on the bus
In 3D - 3D movie or stepback
Killer Kids
Cults
Sexy Vampires
Vigilantes
Moral Panic
Long running series
Killer animals
Conspiracy theory
Pseudonym
More than 2 guns on the cover
Based on a videogame
Gangs
! in the title
Weirdly specific sub-genre
Kinky sex
Drugs
Ninjas/Martial arts
Giallo
____
Instagram prompts:
1st to 10th August - TBR stack
11th to 17th August - Happy GarbAugust selfie
18th to 24th August - Fave trashy book or author
25th to 31st August - Your trashiest covers

Garbaugust hosts:
@CriminOllyBlog - Screaming, Creaming Olly @CriminOllyBlog
@M-J - Sleazing This Life @M-J
@ObscureBookAdventures - Obscene Boob Adventures @ObscureBookAdventures
@RaynorReadsStuff Raynor Wants it Rough @RaynorReadsStuff
@anotherbooktubechannel - Another Buttplug Canal @anotherbooktubechannel
@anotherbibliophilereads - Another Boobiephile Reads Playboy for the Articles
@fiberartsyreads - Fibertarty @fiberartsyreads
@bookboundweirdo - Bookbound Dildo @cafecryptic
@bookssongsandothermagic - Boobs, Dongs and Other Magic @bookssongsandothermagic
@SlimeAndSlashers - Slimey Splashers @SlimeAndSlashers
@royreadsanything - Roys Reads Anything (wink)
@thebookishknitter - The Bondage Knitter @thebookishknitter
@michellesmelancholia - Michelle's Melons Cholia @michellesmelancholia
@katrinabrown - Kaboner Grown @katrinabrown
@alex_unabridged - Al Licks Under a Bridge @alex_unabridged
@michaelk.vaughan8617 - Michael K Porn @michaelk.vaughan8617
@BookBlather - Boob Lather @BookBlather
@kellyhookedonbooks4394 - Kelly Hooked on Dino Smut @kellyhookedonbooks4394
@TheBookubus The Boob Anus @TheBookubus
@AnnNovella - Ann Poubella @AnnNovella
@saintdonoghue - Steve Done a few @saintdonoghue

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The Man from Snowy River by Andrew Barton Banjo Paterson - read by Jennie

Roy Reads Anything 2024-08-28 | Poem text:
australianculture.org/the-man-from-snowy-river-paterson

Garbaugust devided by @CriminOllyBlog

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This channel is informal chat about old books and other reading, unaffiliated to any entity.

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If you want to support the channel, please like and subscribe.

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So does Jennie!
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Bovver Girls in the Multiverse

Roy Reads Anything 2024-08-28 | Books mentioned:
☞ Infinite Crisis
☞ Vampirella: Unknown Powers
☞ Knuckle Girls, Richard Allen
☞ Feathers, Steve Piper

Garbaugust devised by @CriminOllyBlog
____
Weekly prompts:
1st to 10th August - Anything Goes
11th to 17th August - Category Romance or Men's Adventure
18th to 24th August - Sex and/or Violence
25th to 31st August - A novelisation or a book that was turned into a 70s or 80s mini series
___
The Garbingo card:
Modern trash
Host recommendation
Trash in translation
Green on the cover
Nudity on the cover/poster
You wouldn't read/watch on the bus
In 3D - 3D movie or stepback
Killer Kids
Cults
Sexy Vampires
Vigilantes
Moral Panic
Long running series
Killer animals
Conspiracy theory
Pseudonym
More than 2 guns on the cover
Based on a videogame
Gangs
! in the title
Weirdly specific sub-genre
Kinky sex
Drugs
Ninjas/Martial arts
Giallo
____
Instagram prompts:
1st to 10th August - TBR stack
11th to 17th August - Happy GarbAugust selfie
18th to 24th August - Fave trashy book or author
25th to 31st August - Your trashiest covers

Garbaugust hosts:
@CriminOllyBlog - Screaming, Creaming Olly @CriminOllyBlog
@M-J - Sleazing This Life @M-J
@ObscureBookAdventures - Obscene Boob Adventures @ObscureBookAdventures
@RaynorReadsStuff Raynor Wants it Rough @RaynorReadsStuff
@anotherbooktubechannel - Another Buttplug Canal @anotherbooktubechannel
@anotherbibliophilereads - Another Boobiephile Reads Playboy for the Articles
@fiberartsyreads - Fibertarty @fiberartsyreads
@bookboundweirdo - Bookbound Dildo @cafecryptic
@bookssongsandothermagic - Boobs, Dongs and Other Magic @bookssongsandothermagic
@SlimeAndSlashers - Slimey Splashers @SlimeAndSlashers
@royreadsanything - Roys Reads Anything (wink)
@thebookishknitter - The Bondage Knitter @thebookishknitter
@michellesmelancholia - Michelle's Melons Cholia @michellesmelancholia
@katrinabrown - Kaboner Grown @katrinabrown
@alex_unabridged - Al Licks Under a Bridge @alex_unabridged
@michaelk.vaughan8617 - Michael K Porn @michaelk.vaughan8617
@BookBlather - Boob Lather @BookBlather
@kellyhookedonbooks4394 - Kelly Hooked on Dino Smut @kellyhookedonbooks4394
@TheBookubus The Boob Anus @TheBookubus
@AnnNovella - Ann Poubella @AnnNovella
@saintdonoghue - Steve Done a few @saintdonoghue

#royreadsanything
This channel is informal chat about old books and other reading, unaffiliated to any entity.

My Discord server: discord.gg/VaVQBmJwbd

If you want to support the channel, please like and subscribe.

I have an Amazon wishlist: amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/HJ8WB0DVYTRZ
So does Jennie!
amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2D9INI62HXMC7

Buy me a coffee should you so wish ko-fi.com/roy65583

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Baronesses and Bad Brains: superspy conspiracy #Garbaugust fiction

Roy Reads Anything 2024-08-26 | Books mentioned:
☞ The Baroness 1: The Ecstasy Connection, Paul Kenyon
☞ The Death of the Fuhrer, Ronald Pucetti

Garbaugust devised by @CriminOllyBlog
____
Weekly prompts:
1st to 10th August - Anything Goes
11th to 17th August - Category Romance or Men's Adventure
18th to 24th August - Sex and/or Violence
25th to 31st August - A novelisation or a book that was turned into a 70s or 80s mini series
___
The Garbingo card:
Modern trash
Host recommendation
Trash in translation
Green on the cover
Nudity on the cover/poster
You wouldn't read/watch on the bus
In 3D - 3D movie or stepback
Killer Kids
Cults
Sexy Vampires
Vigilantes
Moral Panic
Long running series
Killer animals
Conspiracy theory
Pseudonym
More than 2 guns on the cover
Based on a videogame
Gangs
! in the title
Weirdly specific sub-genre
Kinky sex
Drugs
Ninjas/Martial arts
Giallo
____
Instagram prompts:
1st to 10th August - TBR stack
11th to 17th August - Happy GarbAugust selfie
18th to 24th August - Fave trashy book or author
25th to 31st August - Your trashiest covers

Garbaugust hosts:
@CriminOllyBlog - Screaming, Creaming Olly @CriminOllyBlog
@M-J - Sleazing This Life @M-J
@ObscureBookAdventures - Obscene Boob Adventures @ObscureBookAdventures
@RaynorReadsStuff Raynor Wants it Rough @RaynorReadsStuff
@anotherbooktubechannel - Another Buttplug Canal @anotherbooktubechannel
@anotherbibliophilereads - Another Boobiephile Reads Playboy for the Articles
@fiberartsyreads - Fibertarty @fiberartsyreads
@bookboundweirdo - Bookbound Dildo @cafecryptic
@bookssongsandothermagic - Boobs, Dongs and Other Magic @bookssongsandothermagic
@SlimeAndSlashers - Slimey Splashers @SlimeAndSlashers
@royreadsanything - Roys Reads Anything (wink)
@thebookishknitter - The Bondage Knitter @thebookishknitter
@michellesmelancholia - Michelle's Melons Cholia @michellesmelancholia
@katrinabrown - Kaboner Grown @katrinabrown
@alex_unabridged - Al Licks Under a Bridge @alex_unabridged
@michaelk.vaughan8617 - Michael K Porn @michaelk.vaughan8617
@BookBlather - Boob Lather @BookBlather
@kellyhookedonbooks4394 - Kelly Hooked on Dino Smut @kellyhookedonbooks4394
@TheBookubus The Boob Anus @TheBookubus
@AnnNovella - Ann Poubella @AnnNovella
@saintdonoghue - Steve Done a few @saintdonoghue

#royreadsanything
This channel is informal chat about old books and other reading, unaffiliated to any entity.

My Discord server: discord.gg/VaVQBmJwbd

If you want to support the channel, please like and subscribe.

I have an Amazon wishlist: amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/HJ8WB0DVYTRZ
So does Jennie!
amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2D9INI62HXMC7

Buy me a coffee should you so wish ko-fi.com/roy65583

Email royabayfield [at] gmail.com

#royreadsanything #royreadseverything #RoyWhoReadsAnything