Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
“…is your cunning just an aspect of your inner simplicity?” #voices #fredericprokosch
“It’s a very odd set-up.” #carolcarnac #thedoubleturn
“You must get over these fancies…” #edgarallanpoe
February – a marvellous month of #ReadIndies!
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.” #readindies #thewasteland
“I love a dedicated second-hand bookshop as much as the next collector.” #parisfantastique #readindies
“… stay under the radar.” #readindies #corylusbooks
“The thought had flashed through his mind that he might not be the most eccentric person on the train.” #readindies #pushkinpress
“…poets are the greatest of all lovers.” #readindies #michaelwalmer
“I have measured out my life in used books…” #renardpress #readindies
“I just have a queer streak.” #readindies #godlike
“…the inevitable limitations of music written on a page.” #readindies #discord #jeremycooper
“I will walk into the sea/with no drama…” #readindies #brokensleepbooks
“A truncated cone of flame…” #skyhigh #readindies
“…none of Yermil’s plans succeeded.” #readindies #agreedypeasant
“…something painful twisted free.” #readindies @TheEmmaPress
Launching Reading Independent Publishers Month 2026 – with a pile of possibilities! #readindies
A long month of reading! #january
“….a contagious nightmare hallucination…” #hplovecraft
“By morning, half the fireflies had died…” #japaneseliteraturechallenge
“Oh, Philip, why can’t you remember?” #thelastofphilipbanter
“…part of a web of entangled life…” #isariveralive
A cracking pair of Lancashire mysteries! #ECRLorac
“…late sunshine under clearing cloud…” #souvenir
Announcing Reading Independent Publishers Month 6! #ReadIndies
“A book is shared humanity…” #bookish #lucymangan
“…reading teaches us to take a more exalted view of the value of life…” #proust #timeregained
Welcoming 2026 with some loose reading plans!
Looking back on 2025!
An entertaining mystery debut – for #DeanStreetDecember25
A little (well – large!) round up of December arrivals!!
A little post-Christmas construction! #moomins
Yuletide greetings for 2025! 🎄📚
“This group of youthful radicals…” #thelakepoets
Reprint of the Year Award 2025 – nomination 2
“The truth is never fixed…” #victorserge #plutopress #DoorstoppersInDecember
Gothic adventures and regency romance!
Classic Crime Reprint of the Year 2025 – my first nomination!
“The hoops of danger tighten without warning and you can’t breathe.” #victorserge
The Poet Laureate has been to his shed! #simonarmitage
Death comes in ambush, and also in high heels! #BLCC
“…brain-frying visions…” #allthedevilsarehere
Some sad news about a fellow blogger 💔
A month positively stuffed to the gills with reading events!!!
“Hunting for some anchor…” #makeshift @neglectedbooks @bhousepress
“Suddenly, he seemed to be in another world.” #roadsidepicnic #scifimonth
“…an aspect of tranquillity and peculiar beauty…” #novnov25 #maryshelley
“That means you’ll simply be deleted.” #TheTrial #Kafka #GLM2025 #NovNov25
“I think we’ll all be fleeing climate collapse.” #TheFutureofTravel @melvillehouse
“There is no help for it: life has to be lived…” #GermanLitMonth #thomasmann #novnov25
“…I was never younger or older…” #twistedspoonpress
“I knew well that I risked death…” #RLSDay
“He was done with everything now” #twistedspoonpress
“He seemed reluctant to speak”. #NovNov2025
Two different sides of Margaret Atwood! #MARM2025
A sobering look at the lives of Russian women – over @ShinyNewBooks
“He was better than a camera…” #ZombieProust
Looking back at a very busy and bookish October!
“Frankly, the facts are exasperating.” #GACrime #BLCC
Travelling the world by train – over @shinynewbooks!
#1925Club – the ones that got away – plus what comes next!
“You know what an inconstant person I am…” #Proust #thefugitive #1925Club
“…we were unmistakable in a land where there are no strangers!” #1925Club
“There are lives to be lived if only you didn’t care.” #1925Club
Some gorgeous Pushkin Press poetry – over @ShinyNewBooks!
Some best books from our ten years of Club Reading Weeks!
A final guest post considers an early Science Fiction work! #1925club
“Eyes I dare not meet in dreams” #1925Club
Launching the #1925Club – with two examples of Golden Age Crime!
Coming up on Monday – the #1925Club!!
“They were waiting for their story to come to an end.” #Moomin80
“…to blow away on solar winds…” @LittleToller #herbaceous
“There is nothing like climbing hills for perspective.” #ringthehill
“…hatred, fear envy; which will it prove to be this time…” #GAcrime
“At no time a patient man, the delays drove him to distraction.” #gervase fen #edmundcrispin
“What a rogue he is.” #gorky #tolstoy #fitzcarraldoeditions
September – a sparkling month for reading! ☺☺🍂📚
“Tea, like death, is a great leveller.” @neglectedbooks @bhousepress #malachiwhitaker
“Fiction is an attack in the night…” #shortstoryseptember #rosalindbrackenbury
“…it is acceptable to have more than one edition of a series of books that you really like.” @BodPublishing
“I wanted an end to shabbiness, to pretence, to anxiety, to dissembling.” #lookatme #spinsterseptember
“…maps both reflect and reinforce power relations…” #mappingthenorth @BodPublishing
“Shanghai thirty years ago on a moonlit night …” #eileenchang
“My island is just as much alive as the trees and the sea.” #Moomin80
“The depravity of human nature is unbelievable” #spinsterseptember #missmarple