#the ruthless lady's guide to wizardry

[wizardsvslesbians]

Here we have a very funny Pratchett-inflected magical Victorian fantasy which also features a harrowingly realistic depiction of what having an addict mom is like. Also the first entry in our anglophilia arc!

#wizards vs lesbians #the ruthless lady's guide to wizardry #c m waggoner

[rosy-avenger]

"Fuck me, Winn. This ain't a particularly favorable turn of fucking events," Delly said, the second they were out on the street, the number of syllables in her personal lexicon being proportional to her perception of egregious enfucktation in her current, present, and unfortunate familial circumstances.

-The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner

#rosy reads #c.m. waggoner #the ruthless lady's guide to wizardry

[madebypointlesswords]

just for funsies: books im currently reading

I cannot, for the life of me, read just one book at the time. I've tried multiple times and I just can't. It's most likely my untreated ADHD but oh welllll, have fun with my silly little books and go right ahead and judge my taste in the tags <3

The Iliad, Homer

Honestly such a fun book. I'm reading it very slowly though, because I want to savour each sentence. It's a thrifted version that someone else annotated and I got it for like, 7 euros? The annotations are very cute and fun to read while reading the actual book and it made me consider doing the same (annotating a book and then donating it to thrift so some random stranger can delight in my silly thoughts). Achilles is a bit of a dick but I like him that way. Diomedes is my absolute favourite (together with Patroclus).

This is the edition I have

1984, George Orwell

This book was an impulse buy from my favourite bookstore. I'm enjoying it thorougly, and I mainly bought it because I was going to see a play inspired by it that week and planned to read it first. I got through 50 pages. Orwell's style is a delight though, I have no notes. I'm currently like, one quarter into the book.

My edition (I'm looking for Animal Farm in the same style. I know it exists I just keep finding other ones and it irks me.)

Good Omens, Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

Tumblr (and my best friend @mairrion) convinced me this year to watch Good Omens right when season 2 came out. I curse you all for the brainrot you have given me. Literally why did you have to do this to me. I bought the book very recently (this monday) and I'm 1/5 into the book. The writing is honestly so fun and I've laughed several times out loud on the bus while reading. Definitely recommend this to new (or old) fans of the series.

I got the edition with Crowley on the cover (they didn't have Aziraphales version but I still would have gotten Crowley's anyway). Mine's a tad different: the letters are golden, Terry is mentioned before Neil is, and Crowley's wine isn't red. Oh and there's a sticker advertising the series.

Little Thieves, Margaret Owen

Oh my god this book is fun. Delicious characterisation. Wonderful dialogue. Stunning worldbuilding. Honestly I am so angry at myself for not being able to read this cover to cover. Why am I LIKE this. The cover is also so extremely pretty what the fuck.

Just look at this

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

This book is a banger. It annoys me that I can't read it in one sitting. Because I genuinely LOVE it but I just fucking can't. I love it when Dostoevsky takes a break from the plot to remind us as readers that Raskolnikov is, in fact, very much a pretty boy. Peak comedy right there.

I got the Wordsworth classics edition because it was only 4 euros at my favourite bookstore again (i apologise this is the best picture I have)

The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry, C.M. Waggoner

I got this book today from one of my best friends and I've read only one chapter but holy hell I am hooked. This is amazing. This is fun. This is exactly what I want. Chaotic, sapphic and unhinged slightly evil women are my drug of choice and this is a heroin shot. Live laugh love Dellaria Wells.

also look at the pretty cover mmmm

The Darkening Age (The Christian Destruction of the Classical World), Catherine Nixey

My first non fiction book I think. Nixey's writing is exquisite and I am loving this book with all my heart. It's educative, interesting and just overall, a wonderful experience to read. I do encourage everyone to take it with a grain of salt, but the author has many, many cited works, so I'm not saying that you have to be overly critical of every sentence, just that the author is (just like any other human being) a bit biased.

btw the cover is pretty too :) but I just can't find a picture of it.

#just my silly thoughts #books #dark academia #dark academia book recs #adhd culture #innatentive adhd #current read #orwell 1984 #crime and punishment #the iliad #patrochilles #crowley good omens #good omens #good omens fandom #good omens book #little thieves #the ruthless lady's guide to wizardry

[the-algebra-thing]

I read this fantasy novel off the gay books shelf at my university's queer org and it still feels like a fever dream tbh. it was one of very VERY few sapphic novels I've read that have been actually good—I need to keep trying but I got so fucking discouraged after so many disappointments—but it was INSANELY surreal. the sapphic thing was well done and integral to the plot but it was actually about fantasy class inequality and also magic and fantasy heroin and then also some scandal with a really rich family? and the main cast was a team of ladies with interesting or powerful talents that got hired as a protection squad for one of them, which is how they got to all the drama. it was so crazy and I think there's either a sequel or a prequel and I MUST get back and read it. it's called the ruthless lady's guide to wizardry by c. m. waggoner and I highly recommend it. I feel like I spend a lot of my time being really picky about sapphic stories but it is just because we DESERVE quality content!! and I need to balance out the cynicism with positivity. no clue what brought this on it just popped back up in my head it was crazy

#in unfathomable detail #the ruthless lady's guide to wizardry #c. m. waggoner

[nevinslibrary]

Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

Dellaria, the thief with a heart of gold is even more down on her luck than usual. But, then she sees a want ad from a rich young woman who needs a female bodyguard who can use magic. Dellaria is a bit of a witch and can use magic, and, she also has a silver tongue, and, so, she starts as one of the bodyguards.

She doesn’t really think that her boss has anything to worry about, and yet, then come the attacks, and, so, maybe there really is something to the lady’s need for bodyguards. Can she save her boss?

Dellaria was an interesting character. Definitely not the prototypical perfect protagonist. Instead, she definitely has some problems and such, but, on occasion she does try to be better instead of just surviving, although, let’s just say it’s not a straight line. A fun fantasy read.

You may like this book If you Liked: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree, The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton, or Spellbreaker by Charlie N. Holmberg

The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry byC.M. Waggoner

#weirdandwonderfulwednesday #nmlRA #nevins memorial library #the ruthless lady's guide to wizardry #cm waggoner #c.m. waggoner

[sapphicbookoftheday]

The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner

Today's sapphic book of the day is The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner!

Summary: "Hard-drinking petty thief Dellaria Wells is down on her luck in the city of Leiscourt—again. Then she sees a want ad for a female bodyguard, and she fast-talks her way into the high-paying job. Along with a team of other women, she’s meant to protect a rich young lady from mysterious assassins.

At first Delly thinks the danger is exaggerated, but a series of attacks shows there’s much to fear. Then she begins to fall for Winn, one of the other bodyguards, and the women team up against a mysterious, magical foe who seems to have allies everywhere."

#bisexual #bi #booklr #queer #sapphic #wlw #books #lgbtq #lgbt books #book recommendations #book recs #queer lit #lgbtqia #lgbt #fantasy #historical #historical fiction #historical fantasy #romance #the ruthless lady's guide to wizardry #c.m. waggoner #cm waggoner

[awomansworld666]

#the ruthless lady's guide to wizardry #book recommendation

[homoquartz]

every time buttons opened his goddamn mouth i cheered. love that little dude

#bong away my man #the ruthless lady's guide to wizardry #this is my tag for gay books

[evenaturtleduck]

That feeling when I'm halfway through a book and really enjoying it but also really antsy to start these two other books on the table next to me that I'm super excited about. But if I start one of these others that means I have to put down the one I'm currently reading, and there's still the third book waiting. Why can I only read one book at a time? 😭

#unnatural magic #the ruthless lady's guide to wizardry #a strange and stubborn endurance

[sapphic-book-tournament]

#The Ruthless Lady’s Guide To Wizardry #legendborn #bloodmarked #tracy deonn #cm Waggoner #c.m. waggoner #sapphic books #lgbtq characters #lesbian romance novels #lesbian parents #lesbian #sapphic fiction #sapphic book tournament #sapphic #lesbian books #bisexual books #lgbt books #lgbt fiction #lgbt characters #lgbt stories #sapphic stories #tournament #book ​tournament

[outofthehaze]

has anyone read this book? i already bought it so i’m gonna read it, but is it actually about lesbians or was i swindled by the cover?

#the ruthless lady’s guide to wizardry #WITHOUT spoiling that’s why i’m not actually gonna look in the tag bc i still wanna read it regardless #i’d just like to not have my hopes up yk

[psyche-reads]

Craving buff sword lesbians after being disappointed with Misrule, but I can’t decide which one to read:

I could read The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry, because it seems easier to get into, OR I could read The Unbroken, because it has a hot BUTCH sword lady, but it also seems a bit more complicated than I can handle right now.

It’s not easy being a gay fantasy nerd who is also very dumb

#on the subject of misrule: #regan deserved better #that’s my only comment #the unbroken #the ruthless lady’s guide to wizardry #I think the leads in that one are bi actually but I’m not completely sure

[oneidiotwithasword]

since we might be waiting a while for alecto to come out, let us know what your fave sff books are apart from tlt

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #mine are the ruthless lady’s guide to wizardry by c m waggoner #the unbroken by c l clark #persephone station by stina leicht #and the unspoken name by a k larkwood

[fictionalnation]

Just finished reading The Ruthless Ladys Guide to Wizardry and am so ashamed of myself as a pansexual to having waited this long to read lesfic. This may be the best written romance I have ever read, and yea, okay, I have not read much romance but man was it good. Also. For how shitty shows have been as of late, this book reminded me that I always have books to turn to. Thank the lords. I highly recommend this for wlw and fantasy lovers.

#fantasy #wlw #lesfic #lesbian fiction #lesbian main character #books to read #wlw books #fantasy books #witchy books #the ruthless ladys guide to wizardry

[dykes-on-books]

Hiya bookworms! Longtime nosee! It's been a bit, but this episode's a real treat! We're covering The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner. Sorry bout the delays in getting this out, health issues and holidays made editing a nightmare.

#book podcast #dykes #lgbtq #book blog #book review #books #queer #queer books #queer media #cm waggoner #ruthless lady's guide to wizardry

[rosemariecawkwell]

TBR Pile Review: The Ruthless Lady's Guide To Wizardry, by C.M. Waggoner

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ace (14 Jan. 2021)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishPaperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 198480586XISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984805867 Blurb Dellaria Wells – petty con artist, occasional thief, and partly educated fire witch – is behind on her rent. To make ends meet, Delly talks her way into a guard job in the city of Leiscourt, joining a team of unconventional women to protect an aristocrat…

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#Book review #C.M. Waggoner #fantasy #Sapphic fantasy #The Ruthless Lady&039;s Guide To Wizardry