Tales of the Weird

I bought online tickets for a number of talks and panels accompanying the British Library's current Fantasy exhibition. Luckily I bought these tickets before the British Library suffered a ransomware cyber attack, which they are still reeling from. I don't think online tickets can be bought at the moment (but may be wrong), but the streaming is working for people who were lucky to buy tickets in time. We can watch an event live, or on catchup within 48 hours of it starting.

Today I was watching a 90 minute chat last night about the Tales of the Weird series of books published by the British Library. This was a lot of fun. Chaired by Matthew Sweet, who was excellent as to be expected. And with 6 other people on the stage. 2 were extremely rabbit in headlights for much of it sadly, though they relaxed later. But the other 4 panelists were great value. And the chair worked well to pull out discussion even from the rabbits in headlights folk.

I have bought a lot of these books to read on my Kindle over the years. They are typically £2.99 for the Kindle versions. But I still have many to read. Including the 3 so far Christmas anthologies. I am now enthusiastically lining some up for the festive season. If I'm awake enough.

Doctor Who The Box of Terrors

I don't listen to many audiobooks now. I mean books read by a narrator - not audio plays like most Big Finish Doctor Who audios. I'm too heavily asleep for much of the time, and can find them difficult to keep up with. But I've just treated myself to a Big Finish audio novel coming out very soon, that combines the Third and Fourth Doctors, with their Sarah Janes. It's read by Jon Culshaw who from the trailer sounds like he's doing a fine job of the two Doctors. His Sarahs aren't so good, to be expected. But I think I will enjoy it a lot. At 535 minutes duration it will take me a very long time to get through it all though!