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You got the Gideon the Ninth ARC?? Have you finished reading it? ? I was kinda split on whether I should ask how it’s going because either way, I’m either gonna be ? in either feverish anticipation for 50?? days or sheer disappointment, but I guess I enjoy putting myself through this – what do you think of it so far??

I….may not have even started it yet. I’m sorry! I’m like you, anon! In the sense that I have such expectations for it, anyway. I just can’t bring myself to even read it. Either it’s going to be great and I’ll no longer be able to take it in for the first time or it’s not going to live up to those expectations.

I actually got it a while back, a couple of weeks before I got sick, and that was the middle of Ramadan so I was like, I can’t read this now, I won’t be able to SAVOR it as it should be. I need everything perfect! I figured as long as I was able to post a review some time in August, it’d be fine. And then of course after Ramadan ended I did start feeling not great. Again, I couldn’t read THIS book under those conditions (though I finished a few others).

But…I think now is the time. Partly because it’s almost August and partly because I ordered this box on Illumicrate (from whom I also got a signed version of Priory) so I need to figure out quicklike if I like it or not. I mean, on the strength of those first 8 chapters, it will have to really waste the setup and author’s skill to be disappointing enough where I don’t want it at all. But what if it doesn’t stick the landing or something? I dunno. I will let you know how I like it!

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I think it was you who recommended Priory of the Orange Tree to your followers a while ago. If so: THANK YOU. It’s so good. It’s the first book in years that I haven’t been able to put down. I don’t think I’ve felt this way about a book since I was a teenager.

Ah, anon, I have no excuse for why I’m answering this so late, I could’ve answered it on the app any day, so…I’m sorry.

No problem! I’m glad it lived up to the hype for you! I wish I had others to recommend like it but honestly, it’s been a bit tough finding something with all the ingredients that made Priory so good.

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Thank you for recommending The Priory of The Orange Tree. I was hooked from the first page! Finished it in 4 days, I couldn’t put it down!! And the slow burn was so satisfying!!!

I’m glad you enjoyed it! I appreciate you letting me know. 🙂

It really does suck you in, right, and yesss, of all the books I’ve read recently, most with f/f in some form, I still really do love how romantic it was, such interesting well-written characters who really fell for each other and how it then worked into the rest of their motivations.

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I stayed up way past my bedtime to read the 9 chapters of Gideon the 9th, only to find out it’s not coming out until September?? I’m very, very excited – great worldbuilding and banter, like you said, so thank you for sharing, I guess, but also, thanks a lot! >=

Aw, whoops, but then isn’t it better for your bedtime that the full book wasn’t available? Hmm? And in my defense, anon….in my defense:

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I mentioned it in the tags, heh.

But yeah, I was so ready to be–well, not let down, exactly, but given a reality check. The book was so lauded and the ratings so high, I was like, it cannot be as good as all that. And it was!

It’s sooooo….different? I know people have said that in their reviews but I was like, they’re just saying that, but it’s just so confidently different? Like it’s just decided this is how things are going to be and we just have to accept it? This is the escape attempt we’re going to land in the middle of, this is the dirt everywhere, this is this planet, this is the incredibly dickish other girl who’s kind of endearing in how young and HOW AMAZINGLY AWFUL SHE IS, like, I wanted Gideon to punch Harrow in the face but also? I love Harrow. 

And then the rest of the story unfolded, in maybe a familiar way after all, I was telling a friend that it’s like the typical manga/anime/YA competition with a bunch of cool characters from cool places going to fight it out, but that is not at all a bad template to use. Basically, it’s really interesting characters with an interesting dynamic in a proven fun scenario. September (!) cannot come soon enough.

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Read the whole first act of Gideon the Ninth!

tazmuir:

So I linked to the first couple of chapters here on this very blog, but time got away with me and I didn’t keep up. Thankfully, my laziness means that you benefit with a masterpost of the whole first eight chapters of Gideon the Ninth!! Click on the read more for the chapters plus illuminating “last episode on Buffy” text which, for some reason, Tor.com let me write!!!

Keep reading

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you should read a web serial called Charon Docks At Daylight on fictionpress. it’s a zombie apocalypse story and a lot of it is about the developing relationship between two girls, it is v angsty but SO GOOD

Okay, see, this is why I needed to consolidate my to-read list in one place because I DID actually have this recommended to me before at some point and I added it to one of my lists and then just…I don’t know what happened. Let me specifically add it now to goodreads. Woohoo, done!

For anyone else who wants to check it out, it’s actually free: https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3095130/1/Charon-Docks-At-Daylight

Summary:

It’s six years after an infection turned a majority of the population into ferocious, zombie-like creatures that hunt during the day, forcing the living into a nocturnal state of existence. Survival is a continuous struggle when it’s hide or fight, and the creatures aren’t the only threat in a wasted America. Sometimes fighting is the only answer.

Words: 419,691 

Hah, I do not mind that all. 

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Thanks for the Priory of the Orange Tree rec. I just finished it and really enjoyed it! It was so good! If you have any similar recs, I’d love to hear them.

I’m glad you liked it! Welcome to the club. Because, uh, heh, we’re all stuck trying to find something that good and f/f that sucks us in and I don’t really think there’s anything similar. Personally, I went into A Memory Called Empire, but that’s scifi and the romance isn’t as epic. Anything I’ve read or liked recently is in my books tag, you can get an idea of what I’ve been reading or looking into from there.

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angry-sushi / andreafloresgr shout out – angry-sushi’s got clips up to Episode 80 for ALL Juls and Val scenes now; thanks to andreafloresgr, Eng subs for Parts 1-2 (Eps 1-20) are up on YT/GD. As book anon, if on Android, I highly, highly recommend a little, localized app called Book Catalogue – can search/add via Amazon and Goodreads, add to custom bookshelves, local backup functionality – it’s temporarily not on Google Store, but it’s gonna be back very soon (GitHub, eleybourn, Book-Catalogue)!

Ahh, this is super late, but I actually was trying to save this for when Book Catalogue went back up on the Google Store. I’ve been checking periodically but haven’t seen it go back up yet. If you want it, you can get the apk from that link as we wait.

Oh, wow, I’d focused on the books part when I first read and totally missed that their were English subs for the earlier Juls and Val scenes! Shoutout and huge thank you to @angry-sushi and @andreafloresgr. 

If you want to watch the early solo Juls and Val scenes with English subs: https://angry-sushi.tumblr.com/juliantina

Lastly, the reason I decided to go ahead and answer this ask now, anon, is because I actually did end up making a goodreads account! At first I tried to add everything I could remember reading at any point but that honestly seems a bit of a lost cause. At the moment, I’m mostly using it as a to-read list instead of scattering random new books on gmail, my phone, or my desktop.

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brehaaorgana:

romancingthebookworm:

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lgbtqiahistoricalromance:

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, looking for someone to translate a groundbreaking French astronomy text, that she knows where to go. Showing up at the Countess’ London home, she hoped to find a challenge, not a woman who takes her breath away.

Catherine St Day looks forward to a quiet widowhood once her late husband’s scientific legacy is fulfilled. She expected to hand off the translation and wash her hands of the project—instead, she is intrigued by the young woman who turns up at her door, begging to be allowed to do the work, and she agrees to let Lucy stay. But as Catherine finds herself longing for Lucy, everything she believes about herself and her life is tested.

While Lucy spends her days interpreting the complicated French text, she spends her nights falling in love with the alluring Catherine. But sabotage and old wounds threaten to sever the threads that bind them. Can Lucy and Catherine find the strength to stay together or are they doomed to be star-crossed lovers?

Coming June 24, 2019 from @avonromance Impulse!

Yesssssssssss!!!!!!!!! @romancingthebookworm it’s the one you were talking about!!!!!

I know I’m so excited!!

Omg!!!!!!!!!!!