saintry

lover of lit-fic and classics. 25. she/they. 🏳️‍🌈 but most importantly, @tarabean’s wife.

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My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1)

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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew. Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.

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Love in the West End

Maude Winters

What if the rivals of SMASH—Karen and Ivy—stopped fighting for the spotlight and realized they belonged in it together? A decade ago, they lit up the West End. Now, Broadway is calling… and so is unfinished business. When young Leah Roughy made her West End debut as Queen Victoria, the world saw a breakout star. Lourdes Lennon, a West End vet, saw a nepotism case. But beneath the tension and barbed banter in rehearsal, they each felt something more—an undeniable connection neither was ready to name. Their chemistry crackles onstage, but offstage? It’s tension, snark, and stolen glances that say more than either of them will admit. As their careers take them in opposite directions, Leah and Lourdes stay connected across time zones, heartbreaks, and years of what-ifs. Now, a ten-year Broadway revival of Victoria offers a second chance: to return to the roles that changed their lives… and to finally ask what might have been if timing had ever been on their side. As the lights rise once again, Leah is ready to build a life with Lourdes, but her costar still isn’t sure where she fits in a world that asks her to choose between love and ambition. When the chance to build a family unexpectedly lands in their laps, they must choose. Can they find a rhythm that works both on and off stage? Love in the West End is a sweeping sapphic romance about second chances, love under the lights, and redefining what it means to build a wild life in a rigid world. Tropes: *Second Chance *Rivals to Lovers *Musical Theater *30s/40s characters *Found Family *Showmance *One That Got Away *Queer Joy *LGBTQ romance *WLW Romance

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Salt Slow

Julia Armfield

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Victoria Schwab

From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger. This is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, María makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets. This is a story about love. 1827. London. A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family’s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte’s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow—but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined. This is a story about rage. 2019. Boston. College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That’s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge. This is a story about life— how it ends, and how it starts.

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Apr 28, 2026

3.0

Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 1.5

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beautiful writing but definitely not my favorite classic i’ve ever picked up. i don’t think i could ever make myself read this again either tbh. the first half was a slog to get through but the last half made up for it a bit. there are a few other austen’s on my tbr that i’d like to read before i make any other judgements about her writing.

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How to Pay Attention to Audiobooks?

I’m extremely behind on my reading goal for this year. The big part of it is I struggle to sit down and read outside of school since school’s exhausting. I’ve been wanting to listen to more audiobooks so I can read while drawing or getting chores done. The only issue is, anytime I listen to an audiobook, I zone out within seconds. I really want to read more this summer and audiobooks may help me accomplish that. If anyone has any tips on how to stay focused on the audio I would greatly appreciate it. 🙏

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Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England. Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268

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Apr 28, 2026

3.0

Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 1.5

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Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

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Mental illness and reading - how to find interest in books?

I struggle with mental illnesses and have for as long as I can remember. But especially lately (the past several months) I’ve been struggling to enjoy anything, including things I love, like video games, paint by numbers, etc. Or with books that sound exactly like something I would like but I just can’t seem to get my brain to get into it.

I listened to the Hunger Games trilogy again recently because I know those books are some that I always love and I can rely on that love. But right now I’m really struggling to get into books I was excited about, like We by Yevgeny Zamyatin or the Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri. I really want to read/listen to these and enjoy them but I just can’t seem to connect with them. It’s making me want to focus on re-reads but I also really want to fall in love with new stories.

Anyway, moral of the story- what are some books you can always count on to be enjoyable even when depression or mental illness sucks the joy out of life?

And do any of you have strategies or tricks that you’ve found help you connect back to books and hobbies that you love when struggling with depression?

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Contemporary references in books

I was wondering what everyone thinks about modern references in books like contemporary slang and references to daily items. For example, I personally don't like when books mention an iphone instead of just saying telephone, but at the same time it is important to include contemporary slang and such because otherwise people years from now wouldn't have access to our day to day speach and to me it feels like a somewhat important part of history.

I def think they should be left out of genres such as fantasy and historical fiction but I like seeing it in contemporary fiction. Anyway, this came to mind during my long af commute today and I was wondering where other people stand on the topic.

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Hiii Boundlings!!!🪄

Whats up with you all... Hope you had/have a great day😇 Just wanted to know how long are your reading streaks... Mine is just 25🙃 Share yours too✨

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