#lit stack

[holy-loki]

“twelfth night” - william shakespeare // deadpool & wolverine (convinced to post this by @precalamity)

[sunsetcurveauto]

It's not as simple as that. I've been realizing that I—

Charles and Edwin // excerpt from "The Fear" by Clementine Von Radics

[logophilist1982]

Cozyplaces

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Queer Historical Fiction Book Bracket: Round 1A

Book summaries below:

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley

In 1859, ex–East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall with an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits him for an expedition to fetch quinine—essential for the treatment of malaria—from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea; nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is eager to escape the strange events plaguing his family's crumbling estate, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for the edge of the Amazon.

There he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettling stories of impossible disappearances, cursed woods, and living stone. Merrick must separate truth from fairy tale, and gradually he realizes that Raphael is the key to a legacy left by generations of Tremayne explorers before him, one which will prove more valuable than quinine, and far more dangerous.

Setting: 1860s in Peru

Historical fiction, fantasy, adventure, mystery, magical realism, mid-Victorian, adult

All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes

In the wake of the First World War, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Antarctic expedition, determined to find his rightful place in the world of men. Aboard the expeditionary ship, Jonathan may live as his true self―and true gender―and have the adventures he has always been denied. But not all is smooth sailing: the war casts its long shadow over them all, and grief, guilt, and mistrust skulk among the explorers.

When disaster strikes in Antarctica’s frozen Weddell Sea, the men must take to the land and overwinter somewhere which immediately seems both eerie and wrong; a place not marked on any of their part-drawn maps of the vast white continent. Now completely isolated, Randall’s expedition has no ability to contact the outside world. And no one is coming to rescue them. In the freezing darkness of the Polar night, where the aurora creeps across the sky, something terrible has been waiting to lure them out into its deadly landscape…

Setting: Shortly after WWI/1920 alternate history horror expedition to Antarctica

Historical fiction, horror, paranormal, survival fiction, alternate history, 1920s, adult

[nicollekidman]

Shelfie?

i have a separate little shelf with all my pocket paperbacks (kind of want to yank it off the wall tbh) and my fancy first edition rebecca, all my poetry + my emily wilsons are in the dining room, and my schoolbooks + fanfic (lol) is on the shelf in my office.

[jojo-the-bird]

Would they understand why I’ve done it? Why I did it? Would they fully understand that I’ve killed myself? Their daughter? Suicide? Or would they just understand that I’m gone.

[nereb-and-dungalef]

I keep drinking coffee thinking it's gonna make me Productive and then instead of doing the work I actually have to do I just compulsively make spreadsheets :(

[barufisher]

i have like a little over 100 pages left of this book i’ve been reading since october (it’s only 250 pages) but i am struggling i just want it to be over…. i need to finish it before the new year so i can be free

[thepersonalwords]

I don't believe books have endings. Not the well written ones anyway...

Love The Stacks Bookstore

[sunsetcurveauto]

Cheers, mate. I'm freezing.

Charles Rowland // "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost

[zorya-reads]

Service Information: Updated My Bookshelf because I brought some new books!

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Queer Historical Fiction Book Bracket: Round 2A

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Radiant Emperor duology (She Who Became the Sun, He Who Drowned the World) by Shelley Parker-Chan

Endorsement from submitter #1: "extremely nuanced portrayals/discussions of gender and sexuality within the relative historical context; very primarily historical, secondary genre is arguably more magical realism than straightforward fantasy"

Endorsement from submitter #2: "A cast full of queer characters who do awful things to get the throne"

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness…

In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.

When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother’s identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.

After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future her brother’s abandoned greatness.

Setting: 14th-century China (1345), Yuan and Ming Dynasties

Fantasy, historical fiction, alternate history, epic fantasy, 1340s, series, adult

The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley

In 1859, ex–East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall with an injury that almost cost him his leg. When the India Office recruits him for an expedition to fetch quinine—essential for the treatment of malaria—from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea; nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is eager to escape the strange events plaguing his family's crumbling estate, so he sets off, against his better judgment, for the edge of the Amazon.

There he meets Raphael, a priest around whom the villagers spin unsettling stories of impossible disappearances, cursed woods, and living stone. Merrick must separate truth from fairy tale, and gradually he realizes that Raphael is the key to a legacy left by generations of Tremayne explorers before him, one which will prove more valuable than quinine, and far more dangerous.

Setting: 1860s in Peru

Historical fiction, fantasy, adventure, mystery, magical realism, mid-Victorian, adult

[ijustkindalikebooks]

TBR plans.

[life-spire]

[elmp]

Against Stacked Boxes

Honey baby child

If you is broke please do just

Motherfucking say

[akkivee]

ITS THE FINAL COUNTDOWN YALL