#scottish lit

[prettyinaccurate]

my little introductory comic for my chemist boy and his companion physician! Graham F. Hurst and Arthur Cailbhin my beloveds

#started as a background practice but Graham's shop is just bottles and shelves #GOTHIC LIT OCS GOTHIC LIT OCS #arthur 's parents are scottish but he was born in america #and then he moved to london to take over a physician position but the town had WEIRD cases... #graham adores him bc hes SOOOO polite #and arthur thinks graham is... odd #i love them dearly #comic

[urhexgirl]

Macbeth to himself when he sees the ghost of his best friend he murdered crash his dinner party.

#shane and ryan #we are watcher #ghost files #shakespeare #shakespeare memes #classic lit #macbeth #the scottish play

[magicalyaku]

Hello and welcome to my 2023 reading wrap up! A big Thank You to everyone who followed my ramblings throughout the year! <3 I will continue through 2024. Maybe I'll learn how to write proper reviews, at least I'll try to remember better what I actually want to say about the stories. In 2022, I read 93 books plus my own. Guess how many it were in 2023? 93 plus my own!! xD That was huge coincidence and I love it. Of these 94 books, 4 are rereads (which won't be included in the "Favourite" sections), 2 are non-fiction, 11 are non-queer. I only DNFed 1 book (which is not pictured) and other than that I only disliked 6 books! (And it's a pretty soft dislike in comparison. I don't hate them nearly enough to want to shit on them again. :'D).

So on the the awards!

Most Read Author: KJ Charles (8 books)

Least Favourite Book: Daresh (Katja Brandis) (the one I could not finish for dear life)

Favourite Character: Brand (The Tarot Sequence) and Will (The Will Darling Adventures) (yes, there's a trend)

Favourite Covers (of books I read, not releases):

(There were too many. D:)

Highest Emotional Investment (aka The Agony, the suffering, the why you do this to me Award): Dark Heir - The Scottish Boy - In Memoriam

Wildest Story: The Adventures of Pinocchio

Favourite Books:

The Devil's Luck (L.S. Baird)

The Scottish Boy (Alex de Campi)

In Memoriam (Alice Winn)

Just Lizzie (Karen Wilfried)

Dark Heir (C.S. Pacat)

The Will Darling Adventures (KJ Charles)

Gwen & Art are not in Love (Lex Croucher)

The Buried and the Bound (Rochelle Hassan)

More Books I enjoyed greatly:

Oracle of Senders series (Mere Joyce)

Of Feathers and Thorns (Kit Vincent)

Wren Martin Ruins it all (Amanda deWitt)

Simon Snow series (Rainbow Rowell)

The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley (Shaun David Hutchinson)

The Tarot Sequence (K.D. Edwards)

The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer (S.E. Harmon)

Sixteen Souls (Rosie Talbot)

By any Other Name (Erin Cotter)

The High King's Golden Tongue (Megan Derr) and more!!

Most Used Name: I counted names last year and didn't want to do it again this year because I read so much fantasy, so the names were all over. Still, there was one who stood out amongst them all with at least 4 instances, if not more. Probably more.

Will

Congratulations. I have to admit, I've always liked that name. My favourite character of all times and part of my one and only OTP is named Will as well and I kinda hope the last book of their second trilogy never comes because it will probably make me scream and ... ...

Bonus! This year, I counted pages! Because I felt that most books were much shorter than what I read before. So I wanted to know. Turns out, my feeling was wrong. My 93 books had a whole of 33011 pages which results in approximately 350 pages per book. That's pretty normal I dare say.

That's it for 2023! I had a very good year in books. I wanted to read less actually, and failed spectacularly because I had too much fun. And if anyone's wondering how I read so much, I read fast and I just didn't do anything else in my free time. Escapism to the max. I hope, the new year treats you well! I hope, you have fun with the books you read! Let's meet again soon! <3

#yaku reads #best of #2023 #books #favorite books #bookblr #book recs #queer books #lgbtq books #queer lit #the tarot sequence #the will darling adventures #in memoriam #the scottish boy #dark heir #gwen and art are not in love #the buried and the bound #the devil's luck

[empirearchives]

Herman Melville on Napoleon’s love for Ossian

Context: Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian.

“I am rejoiced to see Hazlitt speak for Ossian. There is nothing more contemptable in that contemptable man (tho' good poet, in his department) Wordsworth, than his contempt for Ossian. And nothing that more raises my idea of Napoleon than his great admiration for him.—The loneliness of the spirit of Ossian harmonized with the loneliness of the greatness of Napoleon.”

Melville wrote this around 1862 in the margins of his copy of Hazlitt’s Lectures on the English Comic Writers and Lectures on the English Poets

Source: Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography - Volume 2, p. 436

#Herman Melville #Melville #Napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #Hershel Parker #Herman Melville biography #Herman Melville: A Biography #Hazlitt #Lectures on the English Comic Writers #Ossian #romanticism #napoleonic era #napoleonic #american literature #American lit #american renaissance #Wordsworth #the poems of Ossian #celtic mythology #fingal #temora #british literature #Scottish #scottish literature #Scotland

[watchinghallmark]

Cameos in Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas 2023

#hallmarkedit #hallmark cameos #the santa summit #a heidelberg holiday #a merry scottish christmas #haul out the holly: lit up #our christmas mural #a biltmore christmas #magic in mistletoe #sealed with a list

[laurenhufflepuff2]

MacDuff, to the Genie: I wish I had never been born Genie: done MacDuff: ... MacDuff: nothing's changed Genie: correct

#no man born of woman shall harm MacBeth #macbeth #the scottish play #macduff #c-section baby #please laugh #shakespeare #lit humor #english lit #english literature

[ghostboymichael]

hm. well. m*cbeth

#macbeth #the scottish play #shakespeare #macbeth memes #shakespeare memes #classic literature #literature memes #literature #memes #theatre #lady macbeth #english class #school #high school #classic lit #lit memes

[thoughshebebutfierce]

“Hover through the fog and filthy air.” Macbeth [Act 1, Scene 1]

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#shakespeare #macbeth #witches #witch #quotes #literary quotes #english lit #theatre #the scottish play #plays #poetry #shakespeare's plays #william shakespeare #shakespeare quotes #sticker #stickers #sticker art #digital art

[outstanding-quotes]

When compared with too little, enough’s always too much.

Len Pennie, from “Too Much” in Poyums

#len pennie #too much #poyums #buy the book! :) #poetry #Scottish literature #quote #literature #lit #self acceptance #judgment

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh... In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June."

art: Stanley Cursiter, "Apple Green" (1925)

quote: Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925)

#virginia woolf #mrs dalloway #quotes #literature #literature quotes #lit quotes #art and literature #literature and art #20th century literature #modernism #modernist literature #english literature #british literature #scottish art #1920s #stanley cursiter #post impressionism #post impressionist art #art #fine art #painting #paintings #bloomsbury group #e

[la-reine326]

#macbeth #shakespeare #memes #shakespeare memes #macbeth memes #william shakespeare #the scottish play #scotland #the witches #literature memes #lit memes #classic lit memes #nerdy memes

[angels-in-the-electric-chair]

Tell me the name of the Scottish Play without actually telling me the name of the Scottish Play because we’re in a theatre and oh god we have a show in a few days and nO I JUST SAID NOT TO SAY IT-

#now do the thing break the curse #i do fully believe in the curse after my school’s drama club this year #it was uttered and someone got covid #Macbeth #the scottish play #shakespeare memes #shakespeare #literature memes #english lit memes

[magicalyaku]

Hey there! I'm back from writing paradise. I admit I might have gotten a little obsessed but that was just because writing is so easy and fun while everything else is always hard. u3u But I basically finished my novel so I have no excuses anymore not to get back into real life. Here's what I read in May! Pretty good month! uAu

Keeper of the Lost Cities 3: Everblaze (Shannon Messenger): The first one in the series I read instead of listening. Was a good choice because I think I missed quite a bit of the first volumes. 8D Also, it's so long. I don't think, me being me, that I would have made it though the audiobook. Don't get me wrong, I like the story. I have a tremendous respect at how it is written, keeping all the plotpoints together, presenting the puzzle pieces little by little, managing the huge cast of people. When I complain next time about a Middle Grade book being too simple and too shallow than this is the kind of book I'm comparing it to. My one problem in this volume was, how the tension never lets down. It's so wound tight all the time, everything is always on the edge of collapsing, including Sophie. It was a little exhausting for me. So I was very glad, there were at least some answers near the end.

The Scottish Boy (Alex de Campi): I went to Scotland at the beginning of May to visit my friend, so what better book to read than this. And what a book. It's the kind of story, where so much happens in the relationship of the protagonists that right after it ends you want to go back to the beginning and read all their first interactions all over again. Hng. It's great. Also Alys, my queen. When she first appeared I was so afraid she'd turn out evil. Because court intrigues and stuff. The ending of this book is all my heart desires. I don't actually like war stories, you know. But after In Memoriam and now this, they sure make good love stories. The drama of for once not knowing where it all goes? Who lives and who doesn't? Damn. I really enjoyed reading this book. The illustrations by Trungles are also verrry nice. uAub

Captive Prince (C.S. Pacat): This was a reread and I read the other two volumes in June, so my thoughts on the series will go there. :)

Wraith, Entity & Presence (Oracle of Senders 3,4 + 3.5) (Mere Joyce): It's so hard to tell my feelings for this series. There's a lot of death and murder, there's choking and burning and failed exorcism and so much danger of death and still it was just so pleasant to read, so charming and nice and laid-back. It's so weird. 8D I liked the cast of characters and the adventure and Cal's and Meander's relationship (the complete lack of gay panic and homophobic surroundings), the classical music references (even though I never looked up a single one). I wish there was a sequel with Cal and Meander as adults. I mean, I realise, it would be difficult to do in a classic novel format because the ghost cases just aren't big enough to last a whole book, but imagine it like a half-hour show oder manga series with a ghost of the week for half the chapter and their happy slice of life for the rest. Hah. Good series.

The Hanged Man & The Hourglass Throne (The Tarot Sequence 2+3) (K.D. Edwards): I didn't think about it while reading but in retrospective this series fits into what I categorise as "wild". There's so much shit happening here. Big and bold. At the end of volume 1 I was still undecided of I like it enough to buy it on paper. These doubts were washed away with the sequels. It's an investment in the beginning, getting into the world and all, but I found it totally worth it. That one big drama at the end of vol3? Yes, totally got me. Like right from the textbook. Make me care, rip me apart. Damn.

The Buried and the Bound (Rochelle Hassan): If someone asked me in a survey about what I want to read and then actually went and made it into a book, this might be the result. This contains only things I like: two suffering (gay) boys, one tough girl (not involved in any romance), which is the best constellation of characters, really. Some magic, some adventure, some drama, different storythreads that weave nicely together in the end. I enjoyed reading it a whole lot and am looking forward to the sequels!

Ander & Santi were here (Jonny Garza Villa): Now this one was difficult. I think it's a good book, I wanted to like it, but. Hear me out. For me, this is split in three parts. The first one is about the illegal immigrants. See, for as long as I remember my dad worked in a … what's it called in English … an housing complex for refugees? Not a camp, but like a dorm. And while illegals and refugees are still a step apart, they're at least somehow adjacent. I lived basically next to them half my life and never cared. When in 2015 there was a huge wave of refugees coming to my country and everyone was freaking out, I just thought "Great, that means my dad will keep his job" (because the dorm was always on the verge of closing down and it would probably been tough for my dad as one of very few black people in a kind of racist small town to find a new job.) So anyway, I thought it was a good thing to finally read an actual story about people in these situations, to learn how to care. So that part was good and insightful. The second part was about the art. I draw manga only, but I do consider myself an artist and I was around when manga became big in my country and the art schools hated it and made us suffer. I have thoughts on art. And I really enjoyed reading about Ander's art and process and thoughts. My favourite part of the book! And then there's part 3, the love story. And I think, because I connected more strongly to the other parts than usual I felt the disconnect here much more than usual! The romance in here is very intense and very physical and my aroace brain didn't compute at all. Complete detachment. Which was kind of a problem, because the romance is a huge part of the book. I really wanted to like it but it didn't work. I did like Ander as a character, though, and their family and friends. And the cover is still so damn pretty!

That's it!

#yaku reads #may wrap up #books #queer books #lgbtq books #queer lit #bookblr #oracle of senders #the scottish boy #the buried and the bound #the tarot sequence #keeper of the lost cities #ander and santi were here

[se1kie]

feeling a little gothic this evening

#book cover #books #scottish literature #english literature #victorian literature #romantic era #gothic literature #gothic lit #frankenstein #Dracula #mary shelley #bram stoker #novel #cover design #book cover design #bookblr

[calamitys-child]

God I just absolutely cannot stop fuckin thinking about how funny it would be to do a drag number to, like, oh jean or something off of the back of "Yous come in here! Callin me weird!" "There's nothin weird aboot ye. You're just a man... in a dress... sellin a cooker". I'm possessed.

#heavy blue eyeshadow on one eye and matching blue tear tracks on the other cheek #to evoke the fuckin braveheart makeup #like just full hyperstupid scottish stereotyping #can you imagine #this post brought to you by gary tank commander running for first minister #awakening deep memories of the funniest show i ever saw aged ten and still quote almost daily #lit. are they sausage rolls hot but.

[the-busy-ghost]

Keep thinking I ought to buy more books about Welsh history and then realise that it might be difficult to locate what I want if I have half a shelf of books, 90% of which are written by authors whose surnames are Williams, Davies, Jones, Jenkins, Evans, e.t.c.

#It's already bad enough over in the Scottish history section #There are like multiple guys named Alastair/Alister/Alasdair MacDonald apparently #I still don't know which is which in a given situation and I got taught by one of them #But Wales is a whole other level #How are you supposed to find the right book when the authors all sound like a Barbarians team from the 1970s #Why people spend all their time making fun of the Welsh language (a beautiful and perfectly sensible tongue) I don't know #The surnames though... #Seriously how do people who study Welsh lit and stuff ever find the texts/academic articles they're looking for #There is a Gothic short story waiting to be written about an academic who slowly loses their sanity in a labyrinthine library #On their quest to find the correct article by Evans et al.