#The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

[mswyrr]

"Catherine, flustered, dropped her eyes to the page again: the attractive force between two bodies . . . All at once it was a great deal of work simply to pull breath into her lungs, and force it out again."

-Olivia Waite, "The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics"

[papenathys]

Just read one of the best sapphic historical romances of all time and it was SO intersectional!so much diversity of race, class, profession and sexuality, while still realistic to the time period!!! which is insane considering it's set in Victorian England!!!!!

(Funny, cause several main stream lesbian romances set in contemporary hipster queer city spaces like Portland and New York are......only quirky white gay activists).

[spiritintheinkwell]

Happy Pride! Featuring my nine favorite wlw books.

Mahit/Three Seagrass from the Teixcalaan series by Arkady Martine

Catherine/Lucy from The Lady's Guide To Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Kath/Lily from Last Night At The Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Zanja/Karis from the Elemental Logic series by Laurie J. Marks

Jude/Síle from Landing by Emma Donoghue

Ead/Sabran from The Priory Of The Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Emi/Ava from Everything Leads To You by Nina LaCour

Thenike/Marghe from Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Red/Blue from This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Ordered by theme, not by preference.

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Maddie Morrow- Havenfall by Sara Holland

Lucy Muchelney- The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Moiraine Damodred Sedai- The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan

Silariathas “Silas”- Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

[atortoiseplease]

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows is book two of the Feminine Pursuits Series by Olivia Waite. I absolutely devoured this one, just like the characters deliciously devoured one another.

7.5/10

[radedneko]

A discovery isn't something you make alone, not really--it always has to be confirmed by someone else, whether you're doing an experiment or making an observation or building a new theory about how the universe works. Truth doesn't belong to any one scholar; it requires all of us.

~The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer Astronomy Fiction

How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby (Contemporary MG) The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum (Speculative YA Romance) The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer (YA Sci-Fi Romance) Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsén (Historical Fiction) The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite (Historical Romance) Bonus: While less about Astronomy itself, Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers stars a PhD in…

[mysweetsinfulobsessions]

Another banger of a book!

[mswyrr]

"Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics" (ff historical romance by Olivia Waite) is so beautifully written I want to eat the words off the page

[scionshtola]

so desperate to listen to an f/f historical romance i’ve turned to audiobooks on spotify

[fourdiagnosesinatrenchcoat]

Ok we've had a summer with a range of gay male romances, created oddly enough by people who are not gay men.

WHEN is Hot Lesbian Summer or Ineffable Wives Summer or even just Sweet and Largely Chaste Lesbian Summer? It's like we got But I'm a Cheerleader and Hollywood decided that was enough. (Meanwhile Jamie Babbitt is RIGHT HERE working on OMITB)

Can we PLEASE get a You Should See Me in a Crown movie? Or a series of Alexandria Bellefleur's Seattle books? Or let's go historical with Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics?

Where are the sapphic adaptations??

[gothicmagpie]

“Lucy’s words, spoken against Catherine’s temple, chimed softly against her very bones. “Loving you is entirely different. You make me feel expansive, as if my heart is big enough and strong enough to contain the whole world. As though I can become anyone I need to, or want to, without fear—I can reach higher and farther and not lose you for the striving. And oh, my love, do you know how great a gift that is?” “

-from The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

[imthedoctortobiasfunke]

I would like to highly recommend:

Is very good

Following the Daily Clinch twitter account has really made me realize that due to the tragedy of timing (queers in, romance novel covers I’m nostalgic for out) we have been ROBBED of beautifully painted lesbian clinch covers on mainstream romances. Where are the dramatic seascapes almost entirely blocked out by two embracing women, hair blowing in the wind, tits as out as permissible for a book cover? Where are the ladies beginning a tryst in a field of wildflowers, their bosoms (two sets!) heaving, while a road or a fence or a country house waits in the distance? WHERE ARE THE STYLIZED AND DARE I SAY IT (WITH AFFECTION) DATED CURLICUE TITLE FONTS.

[atortoiseplease]

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics is book one in the Feminine Pursuits Series by Olivia Waite and I can't believe I've been sitting on this for so long. Think Sarah Waters with a lot more happy things and a lot less sad things.

8/10

Can't believe it's taken me this long to discover it.

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer Fiction About Women in STEM

How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow (YA) Hold Me by Courtney Milan (NA) Chemistry Lessons by Jae Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

[the-dust-jacket]

Heyer but gayer!

In honor of KJ Charles' new books The Duke At Hazard, a twist on one of Georgette Heyer's most delightfully ridiculous novels, The Foundling, we present to the tonne a selection of queer romance sorted by a few favorites from the queen of Regency Romance.

(Mostly Regency, a few earlier, and occasionally creeping all the way up to Victorian, and please note that most of these are steamy enough to make a Heyer heroine collapse on the fainting couch clutching her vinagraitte!)

Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle:

Band Sinister

Wanted, a Gentleman

Something Fabulous

Infamous

The Masqueraders:

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower

Frederica:

It Takes Two to Tumble

Unmasked by the Marquess

Her Lady to Love

Cotillion:

Infamous

Venetia

Band Sinister

The Ruin of a Rake

Faro's Daughter

The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting

The Hellion's Waltz

The Society of Gentlemen series

Beauvallet:

Valiant Ladies

Brethren

These Old Shades

The Society of Gentlemen series

Unmasked by the Marquess

Devil's Cub:

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

Her Morning Star

The Corinthian:

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower

Wanted, a Gentleman

A Civil Contract

A Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows

The Society of Gentlemen series

Friday's Child

Band Sinister

The Talisman Ring:

The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

A Thief In the Night

Something Fabulous

The Reluctant Widow:

Trouble

The Lawrence Browne Affair

The Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel

Arabella:

Unmasked by the Marquess

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal

Her Lady to Love

The Unknown Ajax:

The Secret Lives of Country Gentleman and The Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel

What are your favorites?