#Olivia Waite

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Historical F/F Romance

Feminine Pursuits and Hen Fever by Olivia Waite Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban The Spinsters of Inverley by Jane Walsh That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian Bonus: For cozy mystery/romance mashup, check out Proper English by KJ Charles Double Bonus: These are all realistic fiction, but for historical fantasy, try Heather Rose Jones’s…

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#A Little Light Mischief #Alpennia #Alyssa Cole #Cat Sebastian #Don&039;t Want You Like a Best Friend #Emma R. Alban #Heather Rose Jones #Jane Walsh #KJ Charles #Olivia Waite #Proper English #That Could Be Enough #The Spinsters of Inverley

[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

#Maddie Morrow #Havenfall #Sara Holland #Lucy Muchelney #feminine pursuits series #The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics #Olivia Waite #Moiraine Damodred Sedai #WoT #The Wheel of Time #The Wheel of Time Series #New Spring #Robert Jordan #Silas #Silariathas #Sorcery of Thorns #Silas Sorcery of Thorns #Margaret Rogerson #polls #lgbt books #queer book character tournament 2.0

[mysweetsinfulobsessions]

Another banger of a book!

#thought it wasn’t up my alley but it was great!! #has all the things I love: a character who’s guarded and the one whose bold #sex scenes with detail #a happy surprise that makes you giddy #and it isn’t too plot thick and mostly focuses on the characters and what is strictly necessary for their development #and i gotta give it to the author she has some killer lines in there PLUS it’s got just the right touch of feminism #a lady’s guide to celestial mechanics #apparently this is a series so i am now heading to the next book of olivia waite! #lgbtq books #lgbt books #lgbt book recs #lgbtq book recs #lgbt book recommendation #queer books #wlw books #sapphic books #saphic books #olivia waite

[mccoppinscrapyard]

Read in 2023 (1/?)

The Hellion’s Waltz by Olivia Waite

❝ This woman was how she’d imagined every cruel heartbreaker in every old ballad she’d ever heard. If you were lucky, you pined away for love of her. If you weren’t lucky, you won her, lost her, and were damned. Here was Sophie, craving damnation. ❞

#read in 2023 #the hellion’s waltz #olivia waite #litedit #wlwbookshelf #historical fiction #period romance #historical romance #wlw literature #lgbt literature #regency romance #sapphic books #queer books #book aesthetic #1820s #mystuff #my edit #books2023

[quill-ting]

Queer Love Book Club - November 2023

This month's book is The Hellion's Waltz by Olivia Waite. If you're over 18 and would like to join us for HEISTS and the REGENCY ERA and LESBIANS* please come and join the discord.

*lesbians is here used to include any wlw because one, it's a fun word and two, it's a regency era romance and their sexual identities are ??? compared to what we have today anyway

#the hellion's waltz #olivia waite #queer romance #sapphic romance #book club

[sapphicbookoftheday]

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Today's sapphic book of the day is The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite!

Summary: "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?"

#lesbian #bisexual #bi #sapphic #queer #wlw #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbt #books #book recs #booklr #book recommendations #romance #historical #historical fiction #historical romance #the lady's guide to celestial mechanics #olivia waite

[libraryleopard]

Adult historical romance set in early 19th-century England

A young woman who worked as an assistant for her recently-deceased astronomer father and aspires to become a recognized astronomer herself is hired by a widowed countess to translate a French scientific text and sparks fly between the two of them

In addition to romance, one lead grapples with historical sexism in scientific fields and exclusion from historically male academic spaces while the other recovers from her marriage to her abusive, domineering husband and tries to find her own passion and goals in life now that she’s a widow

Exploration of science vs. the arts and whether there’s truly a divide between the two

Embroidery and astronomy

In addition to the initial falling-in-love section of the romantic arc, the two women also have to navigate being in a long-term relationship that can’t be validated in the eyes of society and how to find satisfaction and community

Both characters have a lot of individual growth outside of the romance, which I liked

Lesbian main character, bisexual main character, F/F romance

#this was good! #first full-length sapphic historical romance i read #would definitely like to continue the series #also it's plenty sexy as well as having good character growth #i really wish there was an author's note though! #i want to know the inspirations for astronomy and embroidery stuff #the lady's guide to celestial mechanics #2022 reads #books #lulu speaks #lulu reads the lady's guide to celestial mechanics #feminine pursuits #lulu reads feminine pursuits #olivia waite

[bettslovesromance]

I'm such a sucker for workplace romances 💖

Here are some fabulous books that I've read and enjoyed.

I definitely want to read more historical with this trope, do you have any rec?

#contemporary romance #historical romance #romancelandia #romance novel #book recommendation #book #sierra simone #kate canterbary #julie james #rs grey #lucy bexley #lexy josephine #olivia waite #julie murphy #karina halle

[tomesofthetrade]

“Even a love in mourning still had sparks in it.”

- The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

#the lady's guide to celestial mechanics #olivia waite #books #booklr #reading #bookish #book nerd #bookworm #booklover #booksbooksbooks #book photography #book picture #romance #romance books #historical romance #regency romance #lesbian #lesbian romance #queer romance

[toadtaro]

“What was her name?”

“Priscilla.” There was no mistaking it. Only love could make the name drip from Miss Muchelney’s mouth in those honeyed tones.

Even a love in mourning still had sparks in it.

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

#wlw books #the lady’s guide to celestial mechanics #wlw literature #wlw quotes #lesbian #lesbian quotes #olivia waite #toadtaro

[mssnekireads]

“We’re stars, and though we might burn separately, we’ll always be in one another’s orbit.”

— Olivia Waite, The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

#novel #olivia waite #the lady's guide to celestial mechanics #quote #favs

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Victorian F/F Romance

A Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee A Long Time Dead by Samara Breger (PNR) Hen Fever by Olivia Waite Don’t Want You Like a Best Friend by Emma R. Alban Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan Bonus: While not technically Victorian itself, An Island Princess Stars a Scandal by Adriana Herrera is set in Paris during that era

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#A Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence #A Long Time Dead #Adriana Herrera #An Island Princess Starts a Scandal #Courtney Milan #Don&039;t Want You Like a Best Friend #Emma R. Alban #Hen Fever #Jess Everlee #Mrs. Martin&039;s Incomparable Adventure #Olivia Waite #Samara Breger

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Character, book, and author names under the cut

Evander (Andy) Mills- Lavender House by Lev Ac Rosen

Catherine St. Day- The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Sideways Pike- The Spacegracers by HA Clarke

Malini- The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

#Evander Mills #Andy Mills #Lavender House #The bell in the fog #Lev Ac Rosen #Catherine St. Day #The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics #feminine pursuits series #Olivia Waite #Sideways Pike #spacegracers #scratch daughters #The Spacegracers #HA Clarke #Malini #The Jasmine Throne #The Oleander Sword #the burning kingdoms #tbk #malini tbk #Tasha Suri #polls #lgbt books #queer book character tournament 2.0

[readtilyoudie]

Lucy grinned. “You ought to have stayed home and learned about good old-fashioned English debauchery, as I did.”

Catherine chuckled as Lucy pulled the sheets over them both. “If you’re offering to teach me, I expect you’ll be a proper scholar and do it rigorously.”

Lucy snorted, and nipped at Catherine’s earlobe, enjoying the way it made the lady sigh and shiver. “I shall take careful notes, and make sure my experiments are repeatable.”

The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics (Feminine Pursuits, #1) by Olivia Waite

#romance wednesday #book quote #the lady's guide to celestial mechanics #olivia waite #feminine pursuits #historical romance #sapphic #queer #quote #quotes #booklr #bookblr

[quotecollector14]

Just a reminder that jewelry was a traditional gift demanded by women not because we're frivolous magpies but because we weren't permitted to have bank accounts in many times and places and needed shit we could sell for cash in a pinch.

Olivia Waite

#Olivia Waite #jewelry #gift #women #bank accounts #sell #cash

[ofliterarynature]

I just went to look up something in one of my ebooks and noticed that I apparently own all three of the Feminine Pursuits books by Olivia Waite. I can only remember buying the first one, where did they all come from????

#I’m not displease but I Do Not Remember #but also iBooks is a hot mess so god knows what I’ve got in there #bec talks #olivia waite #this reminds me that I never even finished the first one oops