sunlit_stone

THAT'S A LOT OF BOOKS WOAH. and you've read them all in july! i'm in awe.

i don't usually read poetry, but i have to say you made me sort of interested in edna st vincent millay! especially the part about gendered approach to love poems, and, of course, the excerpts! "inland" is beautiful, and the "passer mortuus est" made me go oh! the xiyao fanfic! haha. and yeah, it kind of sucks that her bisexuality wasn't mentioned if it would've been an interesting lens to look at her poems!

and ooh, kj charles! i've only read the secret lives of country gentlemen and quite enjoyed it. i know there's a fairly fresh sequel-of-sorts of this book, but do you perhaps have a favourite of hers?

okay, when you first mentioned the age difference, i was NOT expecting it to be this large! i haven't read any of the books you talk about in this post, so i'm probably lacking a whole metric ton of context, but all imbalances and such aside, whenever i see such a big age gap, i can't help but wonder what pulls those characters together, aside from, yknow, the narrative. in one of my favourite BL mangas, hana wa saku ka/does the flower know?, the mains have 18 years between them, but they see past each other's facades, have common (artistic) interests, and sometimes the older guy has those immature moments the 19yo guy cutely frowns about, so at least there's that... your idea of a genderbent version sounds more interesting, haha!

i've had a vague feeling that i've heard the name georgette heyer somewhere, and i finally remembered that it was in the context of the, uh, edits to the grand sophy (that's not... how you deal with that... and in 2023... god), but false colours and sprig muslin sound very interesting! and they have been translated to polish, so i might add them to the already long list of books i want to check out at once of the libraries i have access to, lol.