saintry
lover of lit-fic and classics. 24. she/they. š³ļøāš but most importantly, @tarabeanās wife.
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unfinished series
it happens to the best of us, you start reading a series that sounds so good and then at some point it justā¦stops, thereās no final book, no satisfying conclusion, nothing. sometimes this is a deliberate choice an author is making (cough, cough George!) or simply they could not complete the series due to life-altering circumstances.
as always, please drop any suggestions in the comments!!!
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Every chapter I am so captured by the tale I forget who the characters are. I need to be better about tracking Mother/Daughter full stories because I am reading this sort of like this is a collection of short stories and not 4 sets of mother/daughters. Iām really loving all the Chinese mythology and pseudo-magical realism that comes from it.
I am preparing myself right now that the movie of this will not be as fantastical as I am seeing it.
2saintry commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
...and this is a hill I will die on. I find the idea that classic literature is too difficult for most people to understand to be anti-intellectual and condescending. I promise you are not "too stupid" for classic books, I promise you can read them if you want. High school and even middle school students study classics, you don't need an advanced degree in literature to understand them. Will a classic be more difficult than a contemporary book? Possibly. Will you understand every little detail in it? Maybe not. But that's fine! That's how you learn new things! And if you want something explained, there are plenty of study guides and critical summaries and analyses and video essays and podcasts and so many other resources out there to help you bridge the gaps in your understanding. Some classics even come with annotations and explanatory notes from scholars and editors because they don't expect readers to fully understand the text on their own!
And not all classics are dense literary fiction if that doesn't interest you, there are classics in genres from sci-fi to fantasy to horror to romance and everything in between. I'm not trying to say you have to read classic lit to be a "real reader" (that's also a stupid idea), but I don't think people should preclude themselves from reading huge swaths of literature because they fear it will challenge them.
64saintry commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
hey allš«¶š» do you guys prefer reading with music or without? and if so do you all use the playlist the author provides, if provided? I've tried reading with music but i just cant focusš
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saintry commented on Elvedon's review of The Waves
This book proves at least one thing: Virginia Woolf wasn't just a writer; she was an artist who worked with words. Beyond poetry and beyond prose, she plays with the subconscious. She forces readers to sink deeper - not just into the text, but into their own minds.
The stream-of-consciousness structure, which melds together six characters, can be challenging at first, but that's partly because it demands a different view of life where people are fleeting, not all-important. Behind the six characters, the underlying narrator feels like Time itself, looking at us.
In the expanse of Time, we're all brief sparks of existence, outlived by trees and silverware. We're preoccupied with our individual identities, little conflicts, and tight schedules that ultimately mean nothing in the scope of the universe. So how would Time write a novel? Like this, perhaps.
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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
Amanda Montell
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Goddess of the River
Vaishnavi Patel
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Post from the The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture forum
Finally have had the time to pick this back up again. I ended up buying myself a copy because my library hold was about to expire and this ended up being muchhhhh more dense than expected so I needed to not read it on a screen. I am already finding this to be very interesting and relatable to my own experiences as of late, so Iām interested to see how those dots will continue to connect for myself as I read on.
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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
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The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
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This was a quiet and emotional character study following two families from the early 1900s throughout the course of their lives. While the pacing was slow, the author so beautifully wrote these characters and gave us insight to all their hopes, dreams, and fears in such an intimate way, I hated putting this down. Be prepared to shed a few tears.
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