interestinggin:

Oooh, and if you haven’t read any Sarah Waters, you should try her out. Anything of hers except The Little Stranger, which is heterosexual and unsatisfying. Everything else is gay and set between the 19th century and the 1940s.

*slams fist on the table* YOU SEE, I KNEW YOU WOULD COME THROUGH. THIS IS THE KIND OF RECOMMENDATION I LIKE. 

i will look all of these up with GREAT enthusiasm, thank you. i am a huge sarah waters fan and love all her books, even (i’m afraid) the little stranger, although it is admittedly very heterosexual. the only one i haven’t read is affinity, which you’ve just reminded me i want to read.

THANK YOU!

p.s. oh my god so i can, i love saying ‘my wife’, every time i say it i get little confused tingles.

Another bonus of the Santa Olivia/Saints Astray duology – most of the characters are people of colour. It’s very relevent given current US/Mexican relations, as it’s set in a fictional near future in a DMZ between the two.

Nightrunner series would definitely get you through a holiday – eight books including the short story collection, eleven if you include the prequel trilogy The Tamir Triad.

When The Moon Was Ours is full of the lushest language. Gorgeous. And The Rules of Magic is the prequel Hoffman wrote to Practical Magic. It’s the aunts, plus their brother, growing up in the 1960s. Art and feminism and sex and illicit dark-ish magic. *grabby hands*

Affinity is full of spiritualism, women’s prisons, confidence trickstering and gaslighting. The first time I read it, I thought it was a bit odd, but I liked it better second time around. ENJOY.