#nell stevens

[heavenlyyshecomes]

What a thing it is, to fall in love, to want to know everything there is to know about a person and yet, at the same time, to find the smallest detail—a blade of loose skin peeling from the lower corner of the fingernail—entirely overwhelming, too lovely to bear.

—Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life

[j-ayne]

Slowly reading this on my break at work. There isn't loads happening plot wise which is lovely. It's making it quite easy just to pick up and put down every so often. The focus on memory and small details of life is nice and dreamy ✨

[galina]

Currently reading: Briefly, A Delicious Life. Finally, Nell’s book is out and it’s glorious — a queer teenage ghost, who’s been haunting a Mallorcan monastery for 350 years, falls in love with writer George Sand whilst she’s on a creative retreat with pianist Frédéric Chopin. Gorgeous, smart, witty, sticky-sweet, sensory, yearning, full of explorations on love, death and art. 🍊

[ecstaticruby]

[sapphicbookoftheday]

Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens

Today's sapphic book of the day is Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens!

Summary: "A playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George Sands.

In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she’s been hanging around the monastery since her accidental death, spying on the monks and the townspeople and keeping track of her descendants.

Blanca is enchanted the moment she sees George, and the magical novel unfolds as a story of deeply felt, unrequited longing—a teenage ghost pining for a woman who can’t see her and doesn’t know she exists. As George and Chopin, who wear their unconventionality, in George’s case, literally on their sleeves, find themselves in deepening trouble with the provincial, 19th-century villagers, Blanca watches helplessly and reflects on the circumstances of her own death (which involved an ill-advised love affair with a monk-in-training).

Charming, original, and emotionally moving -- gorgeous and surprising exploration of artistry, desire, and life after death."

[televisionpromos]

Not Dead Yet (ABC) Trailer HD - Gina Rodriguez comedy series - Nell attempts to restart her life in a new place with a new job and a new roommate. She begins writing obituaries at the local paper and starts getting life advice from an unlikely source.

[campaignagainstcliche]

[blessedbyastranger]

It wasn't even a lie - I don't feel well - it was really very true. She did not feel well in the world; she did not feel well taken care of; she did not feel well loved.

Briefly, A Delicious Life (Nell Stevens, 2022)