#The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

[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

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[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.

#wlw art #wlw book fanart #teixcalaan #the lady's guide to celestial mechanics #last night at the telegraph club #elemental logic #landing emma donoghue #the priory of the orange tree #everything leads to you #ammonite nicola griffith #this is how you lose the time war #pride art #gilbert baker diversity pride flag #lesbian #bisexual #queer

[nsewell]

when she invites you to her bed chamber alone to view her embroidery sampler

#it’s chapter 5!!!!! my word!!!!!!!!!! #the lady's guide to celestial mechanics

[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

[tomesofthetrade]

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

- The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

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[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

[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

[antique-symbolism]

Have you ever read The Lady’s Guide to Celestial mechanics? Sapphic period romance? My friend just reviewed it and I thought of miniature roses! (No vampires though)

Yes yes yes yes YES

As soon as I read the first chapter I knew immediately it would be a comp title for MR. Confident female scientist with questionable social skills shows up uninvited at fancy lady's house and boldly declares her competency in the field that the fancy lady needs help with, refusing to leave until the answer is yes?? The PARALLELS. Actually one scene in MR was directly inspired by a scene in Lady's Guide! I did a side by side comparison here.

That book made me squeal the way I hope MR makes others do. Sometimes I had to put it down for a second just to be gay about it. I loved it so so much.

#also I might be like. a little in love with both leads of lady's guide #when will a bold brilliant scientist show me the stars? #when will a gorgeous innovative textile artist make me a shawl with all the constellations? #i deserve it #anyway if you guys like soft lesbians you're gonna love this one #def recommend #the Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics

[candispice]

"We are not simply minds, trained like lamps on the world around us, producing light but taking nothing in: we are bodies, and hearts, and hopes, and dreams. We are men, and we are women. We are poetry and prose in equal measure. We are earth and clay, but we are all—no matter our shape—lit with a spark of something divine.” -- The Lady's Guide To Celestial Mechanics, Olivia Waite

#quote #olivia waite #The Lady's Guide To Celestial Mechanics

[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

[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

#books #wlw #wlw books #olivia waite #the lady's guide to celestial mechanics #the care and feeding of waspish widows #feminine pursuits series

[neverthetwinsshallmeet]

Do you like ROMANCE NOVELS? Do you like HISTORY? Then surely you’ll like our most recent episode on historical romance novels!

#a caribbean heiress in paris #las leonas #adriana herrera #the siren of sussex #mimi matthews #the queer principles of kit webb #cab sebastian #the duke who didn't #courtney milan #wedgeford trials #the lady's guide to celestial mechanics #olivia waite #feminine pursuits #captain's log #never the twins shall meet #podcasts

[huanglaoshu]

Aunt Kelmarsh's letters always had blossoms pasted into them, incredibly life-like recreations made from scraps of cut and colored paper. She'd been taught to cut silhouettes as a child in the early years of the last century, but the older she got, the more she enjoyed composing the portraits of plants rather than people. Once, while on an extended trip to the Continent, she'd sent young Catherine a letter that was nothing but a series of blossoms, painstakingly glued down to the paper in a regular grid so the letter could be folded small enough to post. Catherine had taken several days to decrypt the whole, bedeviling her mother's pet botanist and several of the Ruche Abbey gardeners in the process.

It had seemed like a game at the time. It seemed less so after her marriage, with George laying first claim to all arriving correspondence -- ostensibly since much of it was vital to his scientific pursuits -- so that every letter Catherine received had been opened and scrutinized long before it reached her.

Soon she didn't trust him not to read her outgoing letters as well -- so she would compose long descriptions of the weather wherever they were, and border them with sketches of worm-eaten rose leaves bristling with thorns, or quiet, tense bundles of forget-me-nots. Aunt Kelmarsh would respond with equally polite replies about the state of English roads, but her bright additions of lilies and willows and myrtle would offer palpable solace in answer to Catherine's wordless plea.

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

#the lady's guide to celestial mechanics #don't worry George is dead by the start of the book #will Catherine let another astronomer into her life? #Lucy hopes the answer is yes! #I love her aunt though #I just about teared up reading this part

[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…

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#Eliot Schrefer #Eric Cervini #Honey Girl #How to Become a Planet #Isa Arsen #K. Ancrum #Morgan Rogers #Nicole Melleby #Shoot the Moon #The Darkness Outside Us #The Deviant&039;s War #The Lady&039;s Guide to Celestial Mechanics #The Weight of the Stars

[tomesofthetrade]

Nothing better than a cat and a romance novel.

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