Absolutely. I could not finish Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky because I kept thinking about what happened to her.

Hunting, is what I’m thinking. Going out to kill food. To be clear, have never hunted in this life—too busy reading all those books.

Please see the Scholomance series by Naomi Novik for a very different take on a school of magic. Basically, young witches enter the school, and if they survive to graduate four years later, they are both lucky and skilled.

Becky Chambers.

Maybe try reading them aloud? Poetry, much more than prose, depends on the sound of the language.