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I know I'm probably late late, but this series is so good. 💃 I may be TOO into historical romances (especially set in the Regency era - thank you Jane Austen) but Evie Dunmore has put literal magic into her 'A League of Extraordinary Women' series. Trust me.

@allisonnixon

Apr 16, 2024

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Victorian sensation fiction

not the classics (though I love those too), the stuff that was demonized because young women enjoyed it and the stories were emotionally exciting and delightfully implausible like East Lynne by Ellen Wood jealousy! love! murder and mystery! details about everyone’s outfits! 💅

@thickrimmedgirl

Apr 15, 2024

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Books i read in january

The year is off to a sumptuous and riotous start with these three novels, each containing some of the most glorious, delicious, nostalgic, aching, and poetically articulate turns of phrase I’ve ever been lucky enough to absorb. 1. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Prose: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Heart: ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 Intellectual Stimulation: 🧠🧠🧠🧠 I devoured this in about a week. Waugh’s prose is some of the finest I’ve ever come across. A nostalgic wine-soaked novel that follows the lives of a couple of privileged Oxbridge students in the 1920s/30s. A love letter to the things that used to be so big and full, and are now decayed. Some favorite quotes: “The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly—perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.” “But I had no mind for these smooth things; instead, fear worked like yeast in my thoughts, and the fermentation brought to the surface, in great gobs of scum, the images of disaster.” 2. Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Prose: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Heart: ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 Intellectual Stimulation: 🧠🧠🧠 Yearning!!! Gilded Age New York City!!! High society mean girls and soft bois!!! Wharton spent her high society years in New York City during the Gilded Age which makes reading her novels set in this time period so thrilling because she was writing directly from experience. Rustling silks and satins and candlelight and calling cards and yellow roses and hair and gloves and the opera and love notes and yearning glances and upstate New York and Park Avenue. GIMME IT! 3. Atonement by Ian McEwan Prose: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Heart: ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 Intellectual Stimulation: 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠 This entire book is an utterly magnificent, staggering masterpiece. I love the movie and it was a treat to discover it is very faithful to the book. I think I would re-read Atonement before I would re-watch the movie, simply because McEwan’s prose is perhaps the greatest of any living author. I simply don’t understand how one person is able to articulate so many rippling, shimmering ideas and emotions with such economy, clarity and poetry. Perfection. Read it.