#Starless Sea

[tailorwww]

The Starless Sea- Erin Morgenstern

I read this in January while waiting for the semester to start and doing not much else, would recommend

[fateheartblog]

The Ship of Dreams

I made this collage a while ago and realised I don't think I ever posted it here - Lenore's ship out on the honey-sea.

This is one of my favourite presiding images from The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern: that wide open blackness, all the light from beneath, a fairytale ship with blood-red sails. Enchanting i loooooove

Anyway, new cover photo!

[thesunincarnate]

First time doing linoprint! I'm hoping to print these onto my best friend's jacket.

[the-teapot-collection]

i firmly believe that if you love the amazing devil you should read the starless sea and if you love the starless sea you should listen to the amazing devil.

[puddle-books]

"how strange, but how lovely, to have a favourite book that is so full of unread stories."

fateheart: a starless seaquel - boogleboot

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Fantasy Books Bracket: Round 2

Book summaries below:

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues—a bee, a key, and a sword—that lead him to a masquerade party in New York, to a secret club, and through a doorway to an ancient library hidden far below the surface of the earth. What Zachary finds in this curious place is more than just a buried home for books and their guardians—it is a place of lost cities and seas, lovers who pass notes under doors and across time, and of stories whispered by the dead. Zachary learns of those who have sacrificed much to protect this realm, relinquishing their sight and their tongues to preserve this archive, and also of those who are intent on its destruction. Together with Mirabel, a fierce, pink-haired protector of the place, and Dorian, a handsome, barefoot man with shifting alliances, Zachary travels the twisting tunnels, darkened stairwells, crowded ballrooms, and sweetly soaked shores of this magical world, discovering his purpose—in both the mysterious book and in his own life. Fantasy, portal fantasy, adult, metatextual, romance

The Radiant Emperor series (She Who Became the Sun, He Who Drowned the World) by Shelley Parker-Chan

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness… In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected. When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate. After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future her brother's abandoned greatness. Fantasy, historical fiction, alternate history, epic fantasy, adult

[queer-media-tourney]

[prosescandles]

"Everyone wants the stars. Everyone wishes to grasp that which exists out of reach. To hold the extraordinary in their hands and keep the remarkable in their pockets."

– Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

[do-rey-me]

i finished night circus too quickly to properly savor and experience the story the way i did the first time but now im starting starless sea which i know i wont be able to read in one day

[sillygoofyqueer]

Today, I read a book.

It was one that my mother had been pestering me to read for a while now, telling me that it wasn't like anything she had ever read before - not with adoration or embellishment, my mother isn't that kind of person. She stated it as fact. I didn't believe her, because that is quite the statement to make to your child who has read many-a books. But, I was at my grandma's and at a loss for what to do because my laptop simply wasn't calling to me, so I brought it out of my bag, where it had stayed over the past couple of weeks. I finished it only fifteen or so minutes ago, not having put the book down aside for eating. I understand what my mother meant, now. I don't think I'll be able to sleep until I blurt all of my thoughts about this book somewhere. So, here I am. Imploring you to read the book, and if not - just to listen to me talk about it. I truly do plead that you read this book, because I am highly certain that I am not fully here as I write this, stuck in a world between fantasy and reality as I contemplate everything and nothing. I do not think I will be able to sleep tonight. Not well, anyway. I completely skip out of a lot of things, but I need to talk about it or I might never sleep the same again (this is not me being dramatic, I swear). This book is just how my mother described it: hard to describe, and entirely something else. Do read this book. I'm telling you, you will not regret it. If you won't? Then allow me to tell you about Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. (In the reblog, because it's too big otherwise)

[anarchicstoner]

zachary and dorian are a wolfstar variant you cant convince me otherwise

[sun1seeker]

i wanna know what people who don’t obsess over every piece of media they’ve ever consumed do in their free time

[the-teapot-collection]

is this something or is this nonsense

im deep in the autism and cant tell

[puddle-books]

"i need you to know that what i feel for you is real. because i think you feel the same. i have lost a lot of things and i don't want to lose this, too. "

the starless sea - erin morgenstern

[voidlingduck]

More Starless Sea reading thoughts but it is a book that really makes me go ‘oh this would be so interesting to analyze and write an essay on’… story about stories book about books and the amount of intertextuality laced through the whole thing makes it so rich for unpicking.

[phtalogreenpoison]

dorian from the starless sea would listen to The Last Dinner Party with enthusiasm because i project onto wet cat failgirlboys. more at 10.