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[emilyccannings]

History Book Releases August 2023

All History books new releases for this August!

If you are like me and are worried you are missing out on all the new releases. I have decided to do a list of releases of all my favourite genres for this month. So here is the History book releases for August 2023. Let me know which books take your fancy in the comments below. 3rd – Tourists by Lucy Lethbridge Info:…

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#2023 Book Releases #Book Releases #books #EmilyLovesLondon #Goodreads #history book releases

[riddle-me-grits]

Movies I Wish Existed | The Secret History (1993)

“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”

#if an adaptation of this fucking book can't include young Philip Seymour Hoffman as Bunny then I do not want it #I'd really prefer James Spader as Charles honestly but he was veering much too old for the part #especially as Kidman's twin #so I went with Christian Slater because he is my beloved and I love when he plays preps that go feral #the secret history #richard papen #henry winter #bunny corcoran #francis abernathy #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #movies i wish existed #because an adaptation of this book close to its actual release when Hollywood was in its prep school/academic hellscape peak #would've been so good #and by so good i mean extra as hell #dark academia #90s

[tricorderreading]

Star Trek: Planet of Judgetment foreword, by Joe Haldeman (1977)

#of course this is THE first thing im hit with when i open this fucking book #its the most star trek thing ever and i love it #this is also before The Motion Picture released! just fun history about the trek timeline and how other media associates to the main stuff #star trek #books #tos #the original series #exerpt #star trek tos #planet of judgement #im so glad that queer was a commonly used word for describing things in the 1800-1900s or whatever #it makes quotes SO much more fun

[i-choose-him-on-purpose]

I spent weeks reeling that we’d be robbed by not getting them in their pjs - let alone Alex’s GLASSES - but im now laying here post watch as it dawns on me - IT WAS FILMED AND STILL NOT IN THE MOVIE?!

#Mathew pls give us an extended cut #like? Mathew pls I beg of you release a directors cut #or at least a director’s commentary #firstprince #red white and royal blue #alex claremont diaz #casey mcquinston #red white & royal blue #rwrb spoilers #red white and Royal blue spoilers #book vs movie #rwrb #henry fox mountchristen windsor #Henry fox #Henry Hanover Stuart fox #Henry George James Hanover Stuart fox #henry george edward james fox mountchristen windsor #alexander gabriel claremont diaz #history huh

[mazojo]

I want to thank dark academia based media for changing my life for the worse

#makes me SICK. I a see any sort of morality. talk about romanticizing languages. the villains and hero complexes. and I go SICK #I am reading if we were villains and oh guys how this book is about to change my entire life narrative I fear #james and Oliver are like. in love right? I am not being delusional right ? oh James how I know you will be dead by the end of this #I wrote notes at the end of each act as I go with my predictions and starting act 2 the second I realize #james wasn’t mentioned or wasn’t the FIRST at the door at Oliver’s release it meant we were fucked #also the fact I ranked him my fav in act 1 and all my favs are destined for death so that’s that #no spoilers btw I am just spitballing here but oh how I know I will be devastated in a hundred more pages or so #if we were villains #dark academia #also applies to ths #the secret history

[sophiebernadotte]

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens by Nicola Clark (Apr. 25, 2024)

Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes, an appropriately timed gift, a well-negotiated marriage alliance were all forms of political agency wielded expertly by women.

The Waiting Game explores the daily lives of ladies-in-waiting, revealing the secrets of recruitment, costume, what they ate, where (and with whom) they slept. We meet María de Salinas, who travelled to England with Catherine of Aragon when just a teenager and spied for her during the divorce from Henry VIII. Anne Boleyn's lady-in-waiting Jane Parker was instrumental in the execution of not one, but two queens. And maid-of-honour Anne Basset kept her place through the last four consorts, negotiating the conflicting loyalties of her birth family, her mistress the Queen, and even the desires of the King himself. As Henry changed wives, and changed the very fabric of the country's structure besides, these women had to make choices about loyalty that simply didn't exist before. The Waiting Game is the first time their vital story has been told.

#british royal family #the tudors #tudor history #literature #new books #book release #affiliate links

[libraryleopard]

Queer medieval young adult rom com with influences from Arthurian mythology

Follows Gwen, the princess of England, and Arthur, the distant descendent of King Arthur, who have been engaged since they were children but can't stand each other

When Arthur comes to visit for the summer they realize they're both queer, the two make a pact to cover for each other and find an unlikely friendship growing between them while they grapple with separate budding romances and looming royal responsibilities

Gay, biracial Iranian/white main character; bisexual main character; Thai lesbian love interest with endometriosis (I think?); gay love interest; M/M romance; F/F romance

#i won an arc of this as it won't be released in the us for another couple months #alas while this should have been perfectly up my alley it fell kind of flat :( #it wasn't as funny as i was expecting and kind of slow-paced #also the ending felt like it belonged to a different book it got all serious #enjoyed the platonic partners-in-crime relationship between gwen and art #also not to be a history nerd but there was sooooooo much more the author could have done with arthur's mom being iranian #like it's not a very historically grounded book at all #but as as a history nerd i kept being like come on let's dig into the islamic influence on medieval europe #or differing attitudes towards gay men in europe and the middle east #i should write a longer review for goodreads but this was a bit of a let-down unfortunately #very very cute cover though! #gwen and art are not in love #books #lulu speaks #lulu reads #lulu reads gwen and art are not in love #lex croucher #2023 reads

[trans-cuchulainn]

saw your post about reading a book in a medieval setting that didn't seem to mention christianity at all. i love medieval historical settings but i dont often find anything where the setting contributes meaningfully to the plot, or where daily life is faithfully represented to some degree. i know it's a high bar but name of the rose is the only really good one I've found. do you have any novels with medieval settings you do recommend?

i enjoyed the story of silence by alex myers for the medievalism of its setting. it is, as the title suggests, a retelling of a medieval text, so i would've been pretty damn disappointed if it didn't lean heavily into its medievalisms. in particular it makes a lot of use of the cultural christianity of the setting e.g. using paternosters to mark time, days being divided by services, knowing the time because of church bells, lodging with a religious order while travelling, etc -- all the things the other book i was talking about notably omitted (made more pronounced by the fact that i read the two one after the other)

could honestly not tell you how much i enjoyed the rest of it because my brain yeets every piece of information about a book from my mind as soon as i finish it lol. it left a fairly positive impression in my brain though.

there were a lot of medieval-set books that i read as a child which i enjoyed and which felt realistic to me then/when i've reread them, but i don't know how they'd hold up compared to modern research! e.g. i loved the load of unicorn by cynthia harnett, and rosemary sutcliff is always a good time

i don't know of many other recent publications (esp. adult fiction) that have a strongly medieval setting that aren't also a retelling of a medieval text though, but that is partly because i have avoided reading quite a lot of pseudomedieval books because so many of them have caused me suffering. i also don't read a lot of Pure Historical novels like your bernard cornwells or whatever, i'm not really into big chunky novels about real historical events, i want pacey genre fiction in a medieval setting if that makes sense. but probably there are some better-researched books in that genre for the purely medieval details

the book i was vagueing about was a "historical" romance novel that had clearly been a fantasy romance novel at some point earlier in its life (judging by the acknowledgments) which the author had retrospectively attempted to set in the fourteenth century with what seemed like almost zero research into what material culture and everyday life in the fourteenth century would be like, let alone how people would experience and express emotions

tbh it was massively disappointing because so many historical romance novelists put a shitton of research into their regency/victorian romance novels and i wish we could have a medieval romance novel that did the same instead of half-arsing it! or i wish that author had left their book as a fantasy romance novel so that i could have still enjoyed everything else about it :( alas. i will just continue to think resentful thoughts in the direction of that book whenever i see it in shops or in rec lists lol

oh ETA: it's ages since I read it but I remember Hild being pretty solid for early medieval vibes? and the sequel just came out so I will probably try to reread it at some point and give an updated opinion

#i would categorically not recommend it to medievalists but people who don't care at all about medieval history might enjoy it? i guess? #except it depends if their not-caring extends to pseudomedieval settings being uninteresting to them. hmm. #and no before anyone asks in the notes i will not be naming it #i don't tend to give titles of books i'm bitching about even though it is no longer a super new release as it was when i first posted about #it (whoops tag too long) #needless to say there are few enough books matching this description that you could probably figure it out with some strategic googling #answered #hechizoh

[stairset]

Mom went to Starset with me and when we got home we showed dad someone else's video where they recorded their whole show so he could experience the Whole Ass Movie they were playing in-between songs so even though they already knew there was a story now they actually wanna know what the story is so now I gotta figure out a way to explain the entire plot of The PROX Transmissions in a concise manner.

#i haven't even read a brief history of the future yet #like i have it. cause i pre-ordered it. #but i haven't read it yet #cause i'm still catching up on the books i already had and haven't read yet #which it should take me like maybe another month give or take to cstch up on all of those #but i'm not reading any new books until i'm finally done with those #that's the goal i gave myself at the start of this year and i'm sticking to it #so blame dustin for coincidentally releasing his new book at an inconvenient time for me #anyway i'm finally uploading my concert footage on youtube #and while i'm at it i might upload my breaking benjamin and three days grace footage from like 2019 #cause that's just been on my phone for 5 years now #i've seen other people upload concert footage several years after it was recorded it's not that weird #so yeah if you wanna see that shit just look up stairset on youtube or whatever #shut up tristan

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Iron Maiden - Death or Glory

#Iron Maiden #The Book of Souls #Death or Glory #Release date: #September 4th #2015 #Full-length #Genre: #Heavy Metal #NWOBHM #Themes: #Literature #History #Life #Death #War #Mythology #Society #Religion #Sci-fi #UK

[natasa-pantovic]

999 or Playing the Glass Bead Game with Pythagoras Nataša Pantović #newnovel at Goodreads

#natasa pantovic #mind #consciousness #nataša pantović #ancient history #aol #Natasha Pantovic #999 #Pythagoras #glass bead game #new release #new books #philosophy #ancient greek #ancient greece #chinese philosophy #best books #goodreads

[raifuujin]

(世界史探偵コナン・シーズン2: 名探偵コナン歴史まんが - World History Detective Conan Season 2: Detective Conan History Manga)

#The last one ended in 2021; and it had been releasing like crazy up until then #Genuinely didn't expect to see it just pop up #Also kinda hope that it's a shorter; six book series instead of twelve because I don't know where I'm putting it atm #The history series just might need to be kicked off the Conan shelf if it continues expanding like mad

[shiroselia]

Ye y'all were right Book VI is the best one

#feh #fire emblem heroes #Just finished reading its story because when it released I was eh #Not exactly playing the game much #And then I took a break until August 2023 #And the rest is history #But HOLY MOTHERFUCKER BOOK VI IS GOOD #I love Askr I love Embla I LOVE ASH #Veronica is great #Also I ship Askr and Embla way too hard I am So glad I have their duo unit lmao

[legionfulminante]

When the five heroes return home after their triumphant defeat of The Dictator, an era of peace enters Compositora, the capital of the magic world. The residents of the town are finally able to live their lives freely; to wear the clothes they like, eat the foods they want, and have the space to enjoy their freedoms. As the color begins to return to the area, everyone believes the worst times are behind them.

No one could have guessed how wrong they were.

With no warning, the small town is beset by a horde of mysterious creatures that appear every night; not quite human, but not entirely inhuman either, they can only be stopped with daylight, or if they're killed. Their only goal appears to be destruction of the town, liberated just months ago.

The Resistance fights valiantly, but even with the determination they have from finally tasting freedom and refusing to let it go, they quickly find their backs against the wall; and it seems that even the goddesses agree, for they once again call for the aid of ordinary teenagers on earth...

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[mushroomgothic]

i have an absolutely disgusting crunch week and a half ahead of me rn and this morning I am frozen in dread unable to do anything about it

#our open book midterm assignment was released to us this morning for my art history class #and it is very evident to me that I am not the slightest bit prepared for it #we have til friday evening to do it #meanwhile i have a 1500 word philosophy paper to start due next friday #a big drawing project #2 different halloween costumes #and on top of all that i have to continue to jump through stupid hoops to try and get my student loans #oh and then a halloween party after work on saturday #and camping sunday- tuesday #jesus christ

[samwisethewitch]

Taking a little bit of a break from the existential dread of American politics to talk about my new favorite book, brujería, Catholic priests, Gothic tropes, and feminism in historic fiction. 

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