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sonorous

(she/her): pretentious classics enjoyer, period drama aficionado, tbr collector, and occasional writer.

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Made for the Movies
Dark Academia
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Anna Karenina
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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
If We Were Villains
Great Expectations
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I Hope This Finds You WellIntermezzoThe Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)

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  • Intermezzo
    Thoughts from 5% (page 22)

    something about sally rooney's writing style is different this time around... i'm not sure how i'm liking it

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    Thoughts from 5% (page 22)

    something about sally rooney's writing style is different this time around... i'm not sure how i'm liking it

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  • The Secret History
    sonorous
    Aug 23, 2025
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0
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    worth almost every single rave review this book has received. each page was more riveting than the next. wrapped in an aesthetic academic setting, this is not a story of heroes of villains but a tragedy through and through.

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  • The Secret History
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    charles and camilla WHAT......

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    francis, you icon. also im sure someone else has already pointed this out but the twins being named charles and camilla is very.... hmmmm....

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  • Additional Recs

    Although, I've added quite a few from this quest onto my TBR, these are some of the books I think you would enjoy if you like the quiet books in this quest: - Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney - So Late in the Day, Claire Keegan - Winter in Sokcho, Elisa Shua Dusapin

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    Thoughts from 14% (page 80)

    bunny is lowkey evil, also how does one get bunny from edmund anyway?!

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  • The Secret History
    Thoughts from 3% (page 19)

    obsessed with how richard describes everything

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  • A Nervous Breakdown
    sonorous
    Jul 28, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.0Plot: 3.0
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    an interesting collection of stories which look at how prevalent moral decay is within society, whether that is through supernatural hallucinations, the hallucinations of grandeur, or just plain old nervous breakdowns (hehe).

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    The Bog Wife

    The Bog Wife

    Kay Chronister

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  • Play It As It Lays
    sonorous
    Jul 26, 2025
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5
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    we all come from nothing and in the end, we are all nothing — to me, this is both the thesis and antithesis of 'play it as it lays'. a sparsely written, somewhat morbid look at the vacuous nature of our lives, joan didion is an expert with her words. though i enjoyed reading it, i don't think i would have the heart to ever revisit this novel.

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  • I Hope This Finds You Well
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    wait omg... is this romance?? (i feel like the first person pov should have tipped me off)

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    i knew it would backfire on her but so SOON?!

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