#beatriz williams

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Beatriz Williams

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2024, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

[wideeyedreader]

Recently Read: The Glass Ocean by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White

4.5 stars!

[sunnywiththescoop]

"But here's the thing. You cannot possibly know somebody you've never met. You can observe her in a thousand photographs, a hundred newsreels, and not understand a thing about her. That person on the magazine cover is a character in a play, a character in a book, a character of her own creation and your imagination, and this immaculate namesake bears no more than a passing resemblance to the original. Remember that, please. You don't know her. You know only the fascinating fiction she's presented to you."

-Beatriz Williams, The Golden Hour

[dangermousie]

Sassy Redhead Stepdaughters of Bootleggers and Built Like a Barn Prohibition Agents - oh my!

Yes, sometimes I read not web novels, and het ones at that, and recently I’ve been binging Beatriz Williams’ Wicked City trilogy.

Our protagonist is Geneva “Ginger” Kelly - a 1920s flapper, typist, nude model, and a runaway stepdaughter of a big Appalachian bootlegger Duke Kelly, a man she almost killed when he tried to rape her as a teen, after which she ran away from home all the way to Manhattan. Now she lives in the big city, enjoys her illegal booze, works for a bank, occasionally moonlights for nekkid photos, and casually dates sweet upper class Princeton kid Billy. Life’s good until she meets a square-jawed, letter of the law Prohibition agent Oliver Anson, who needs her help to catch her stepfather. Ginger is not interested at first but...

Anyway, I’ve only read the first book but it’s utterly delicious. The prose is heated in the best way, Ginger is snarky and damaged and unapologetically herself.

She drinks and snarks and shoots and also bulldozes past dealbreakers/taboos that many other heroines would spend seven books unraveling - her tangled family situation, the fact that Anson is not who/what he seems, hell the fact that he and Billy turn out to be brothers. She knows what she wants and she goes for it.

Anyway, I totally ship tough and vulnerable Ginger with even more tough but also vulnerable Anson (I have a weakness for very competent men built like a cement block who are law-abiding down to minutia, seemingly emotionless but intense as fuck) and the 1920s setting is a delight. I’ve enjoyed other Williams books though none, except A Certain Age (which I adore so much - an older married socialite asks her much younger lover, haunted WWI pilot, to squire the young woman her brother is courting around; we all know what happens next) as much as this one.

This is the definition of a delicious beach read and I am not even on a beach!

PS This book has a framing story set in the late 1990s which I find pretty boring but luckily it takes very little page space.

[ilikebigbooks-andicannotlie]

Mini Book Haul

Der Gefangene des Himmels (The Prisoner of Heaven) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams

A Certain Age by Beatriz Williams

I bought them on a website that sells used books and CDs etc.

[diaryoftruequotes]

Nobody ever says what they really mean. There is this vast fabric of tender little lies, and all the important things are unspoken. Boiling there underneath. We only bother telling the truth when it’s too small to count.

Beatriz Williams

[foreverlostinliterature]

11/24 Book Deals

Good morning, everyone! I wasn’t planning to do a post today, but then I saw a lot of books on sale.. and I’m feeling better... and I’m just feeling like this would be a nice distraction to share as well, so here we are! How are you all doing today? I hope you’re hanging in there. :) 

There really are a ton of awesome books on sale today, though! (Also, I forgot to include Her Last Flight by Beatriz Williams, but it’s also on sale!--https://amzn.to/3392Daf) I really enjoyed Tade Thompson’s Rosewater Trilogy, and Joe Abercrombie is also always awesome. Be sure to have a look because there’s a ton of great variety for you all. :) 

I hope you all have a wonderful day and happy reading!

Here is the link to find resources on how you can help out with the BLM movement! Keep the momentum going!

Today’s Deals:

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer - https://amzn.to/3pXy4Ow

The Darkest Mind by Alexandra Bracken - https://amzn.to/3m2pQSV

Her Last Flight by Beatriz Williams -

The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict - https://amzn.to/3l86muY

Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict - https://amzn.to/2JadgSN

The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure - https://amzn.to/2KDyIAz

City of Thieves by David Benioff - https://amzn.to/3pRvRnP

The Royal Ranger by John Flanagan - https://amzn.to/2UWH08z

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley - https://amzn.to/33d7yXK

Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World by Candy Leonard - https://amzn.to/3m1Gim9

Anyone by Charles Soule - https://amzn.to/2KwKUmt

The Poppy Wife by Caroline Scott - https://amzn.to/39bV6eH

The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand - https://amzn.to/2J7XgB2

Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris - https://amzn.to/2UTTLRc

Woman 99 by Greer Macallister - https://amzn.to/3nTvWp7

The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline - https://amzn.to/3fwzlYc

The Black Swan of Paris by Karen Robards - https://amzn.to/2UTITD3

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy - https://amzn.to/3l1sN4O

A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness Bk. 1) by Joe Abercrombie - https://amzn.to/2J5jrrq

Fate of the Fallen by Kel Kade - https://amzn.to/2Hv2ia7

They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman - https://amzn.to/2J1x9vr

Rosewater by Tade Thompson - https://amzn.to/33g2sKd

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - https://amzn.to/3l2iSfo

Cinder by Marissa Meyer - https://amzn.to/3mebyhS

Hercules Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie - https://amzn.to/3fu4mMc

NOTE:  I am categorizing these book deals posts under the tag #bookdeals, so if you don’t want to see them then just block that tag and you should be good. I am an Amazon affiliate in addition to a Book Depository affiliate and will receive a small (but very much needed!)  commission on any purchase made through these links.

[kayteeaay]

You cannot call back those you have lost, however much your bones ache with missing them, however giant and mysterious the holes they leave behind.

– Beatriz Williams, Her Last Flight