books in 2023

⤷ the gentleman's guide to vice and virtue by mackenzie lee

“Love may be a grand thing, but goddamn if it doesn't take up more than its fair share of space inside a man.”

I want to start a book club, but instead of it being one of those white women book clubs where it's just a bunch of moms drinking wine without having read the book it's a group of friends who meet up at a cabin once or twice a year and we read, and make food & crafts based off our favorite books, and watch movie/tv show adaptations of those books

y'know?

“I do not need reasons to exist. I do not need to justify the space I take up in this world.”

Felicity!! she’s so cool

Imagine you’re a guy in the 1800s in his mid thirties, running a shipping business with your “business partner” who lives with you, and one day a completely random nineteen year old comes in and asks you were the other piece to the spyglass his mother left him when she died is, as you have one similar to it. You realize the nineteen year old is your younger brother who you haven’t seen for eighteen years, and he wants you to come with him to find your guy’s sister who lives in Morocco. Anyways let me tell you about my friend Monty.

Book names + authors under the cut

Shen Qingqiu/Luo Binghe- The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System/ Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Henry "Monty" Montague/Percy Newton- The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue(The Montague Siblings) by Mackenzi Lee

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || March 3 || Intersectional Feminism:  The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

The fact that Monty and Adrian had an entire conversation about Richard Peele but Adrian failed to mention that he punched him in the face is criminal

The Nobleman’s guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks is the DEFINITION of found family that is actually family

Felicity threatening Monty for saying something misogynistic at the same time Percy is giving him a lecture about racism is the vibe today

[ID: 2 arms with their hands clasped firmly together. The left arm is labelled “adrian’s anxiety”, and the right is labelled “monty’s trauma”. their clasped hands are labelled “gotta be able to see the door”. /end ID]

Always remember the three G's of the Montague siblings:

[background fanart credit to @brittlestarry, idea inspired by this]

The Montague Siblings Trilogy Summary:

Slaps roof of English manor-this whole family is gay

One Last Stop Summary:

lesbian time travel mystery!!

The main character on my book just referred to his coats as macaroni? What the hell Monty?

Book names + authors under the cut

Robbie Fontaine/Kelly Bennet- Green Creek Series by TJ Klune

Miles Singer/Tristan Hunter- Witchmark (Kingston Cycle) by C.L. Polk

Henry "Monty" Montague/Percy Newton- The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue(The Montague Siblings) by Mackenzi Lee

Agatha Wellbelove/Niamh Brody- Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || June 26 || Fast Read:  The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee

Adrian: I’m sorry. It’s all just made me a bit nervous.

Monty: Everything makes you nervous, Adrian. You’re a walking panic attack.