#douglas stuart

[okaycoffees]

if i had a penny for everytime i had my heart broken by a book with themes of sexuality and addiction in which the main character is an extremely abused boy with disabilities who is named after a saint i would have two pennies, which isn't alot but its weird that it happened twice

#a little life #young mungo #jude st francis #mungo hamilton #hanya yanagihara #douglas stuart #booklr #literature

[brain-squid]

Just finished Young Mungo by Douglass Stuart and I’m just blown away,, I have lost all ability to form coherent thoughts but one thing I will say is that I’m mad that its described as a Romeo and Juliet like story. Obviously the Protestant/Catholic conflict is a major part of the story but its also so much more than that? Its an incredibly family oriented Queer coming of age story about a young gay boy finding himself in the violently homophobic world. Its about violence, bigotry, the working class and how 80s and 90s British politics destroyed generations of working class families, and most of all its about a young boy who’s been ostracized from society for his differences, and forcefully molled by his family to be whatever they need from him, choosing for himself who he is. Its Just so Much and if it becomes “Romeo & Juliet but gay” I will strangle someone and I will not be sorry.

#young mungo #Also everyone that enjoyed young mungo should read Stuart's other book #shuggie bain #douglas stuart #bookblr #books #queer fiction #queer #queer stories #gay

[carrotcakecrumble]

James and Mungo with the happy ending they deserve 😤

(For @selfconsciousfangirl <33 for being so patient with me shdjd)

#young mungo #when the program comes out I will personally pass away #douglas stuart #art #procreate #mungo hamilton #james jamieson

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#young mungo #douglas stuart #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[lolocolaa]

The first 6 months of 2023 in books

#books #bookblr #manga #lord of the rings #lotr books #manhunt #tripping Arcadia #the wolf and the woodsman #ava reid #ottessa moshfegh #sally rooney #lapvona #normal people #a little life #douglas stuart #young mungo #shuggie bain #tokyo ghoul #my dark vanessa #priory of the orange tree #samantha shannon #hanya yanagihara #tolkien #two towers #fellowship of the ring

[words-and-coffee]

Flames are not just the end, they are also the beginning. For everything that you have destroyed can be rebuilt. From your own ashes you can grow again.

Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

#Douglas Stuart #Shuggie Bain #quote #quotes

[ststuckyspider]

“Her brother was her mother’s minor moon, her warmest sun, and at the exact same time, a tiny satellite that she had forgotten about. He would orbit her for an eternity, even as she, and then he, broke into bits.” - Jodie from Young Mungo

Mungo’s love for his mother is devastating, his love for anyone in general. He has it endlessly for everyone that’s close to him and it’s something so difficult for then to reciprocate.

The alternating between the past and the present is a nice touch and makes the story easy to understand, like Anthony Doerr’s ‘All The Light We Cannot See’

This book is so harrowing and beautiful. Definitely check trigger warnings if you’re thinking of reading it!!

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

#young mungo #douglas stuart #queer fiction #fiction #glasgow #eurpean #achilean #catholics and protestants #book recommendations #book quotes

[galina]

picked up shuggie bain in my local charity bookshop, been wanting to read this since it came out. whew, this one hits hard– it’s unflinching on alcoholism, poverty, trauma and abuse. some of the scenes are horrifying, and knowing that it’s heavily informed by stuart’s own experience makes it even more upsetting. that said it was extremely well-written, it rattled along and I couldn’t put it down, really recommend it

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[throughflowersshineslight]

This is who I see as James when reading young mungo.

#charlie heaton #charlieheaton #as you are #as you are movie #young mungo #adaption #Stuart Douglas #Douglas Stuart

[aspensdear]

i just finished Young Mungo and i'm honestly blown away by how good it is!! i don't even usually like novels from the perspective of a child/teenager but in this case it was completely necessary and so so good. the exploration of masculinity is brilliant and the depiction of endless poverty after thatcher is so deeply terrifying. and of course the menace of the camping trip!

i was intrigued by how bodies of water seem to indicate important scenes (the pond with the swans and algae where mungo and james kiss, hamish and mungo's joyride to the sea where mungo shows he's capable of inflicting violence, perhaps even the sea that mungo doesn't get to see when he and jodie go to the caravan, and of course the loch), so i looked up saint mungo who turned out to have been born on a river, worked near another one in glasgow, and died in bath. & ofc water is important to glasgow as well bc of the sea and its associated industry.

anyway much to think about but i already know i did really enjoy this novel

#am i turning into a bookblr? maybe #talking about books #lit #douglas stuart #young mungo

[shisogelee]

POV: finished reading shuggie bain by douglas stuart

#'there is no way shuggie bain can dance!' girl........ i SOBBED #this book has me FUCKED UP #actually can't decide if this was more harrowing than young mungo #i think the peaks of violence and despair are more intense in young mungo but so are the moments of joy and hope #this was just. misery and heartbreak from start to finish #anyway shuggie and mungo (and james) both live under my roof in lawful adoption btw. they get regular sweet treats and warm drinks. #if you even care #literature #douglas stuart

[whilereadingandwalking]

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart is a rich, raw story of a mother's alcoholism and the way it impacts her children and her life. Agnes Bain is struggling. A proud woman abandoned by her husband in a grimy public housing set-up outside Glasgow, she spends the family's weekly benefits on lager and vodka, subjected to blackouts and the sharp, jagged cruelty of men. Nevertheless, she treasures her youngest, little Shuggie, who grows up too fast, queer and used to pain.

It takes a truly well-written book to cause such absolute heart-sinking heartbreak as some of the turning points in this novel do. Agnes struggles to keep herself upright, trying to fight out of her circumstances and her addiction for her children. Meanwhile the children—teenage Link and Catherine and baby Shuggie—grow up learning to sense her rhythms, her anger or despair, learn the tricks to stay alive in a house where money bleeds into alcohol fumes. I usually shy away from books on subjects I feel like I've read before, particularly literary fiction that promises to be heavy with grime and pain. But this book manages to do it all with sparks of happiness and sympathy that make it painfully hopeful to keep reading, and keep it from being simply a mire of heartbreak. Incredible for a debut novel.

Content warnings for domestic abuse, sexual assault/rape, alcoholism, homophobia, r-slur, emotional abuse.

#shuggie bain #douglas stuart #bookworm #book review #book recommendation #my book reviews

[shxpeshifterr]

Todays new book buys ✨

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[benedictusantonius]

[2023|004] Young Mungo (2022) written by Douglas Stuart

#young mungo #douglas stuart #books2023 #queer literature #i hated it

[katzchai]

favourite quotes from young mungo by douglas stuart

#douglas stuart #young mungo #booklr

[jennamacaroni]

Mungo looked both up and down the hill, and then he kissed James quickly on the lips.  It was like hot buttered toast when you were starving.  It was that good.

Douglas Stuart, “Young Mungo”

#douglas stuart #quotes #what i’m reading #young mungo