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I read some really good books in April đ€
People/videos mentioned:
@alsopato
@nathansnook
reading vlog: youtu.be/PLscJ7tpCEw
Books:
1:41 Either/Or by Elif Batuman (2022)
The Idiot by Elif Batuman (2017)
3:53 If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (1974)
8:22 Augenblicke ed. by Claudine Delphis (1991)
9:15 Y/N by Esther Yi (2023)
11:25 Iâm a Fan by Sheena Patel (2022)
14:35 Katalin Street by Magda SzabĂł (trans. Len Rix) (1969)
16:04 Adolescence Leaves by Nathan Truong (2022)
16:47 Optic Nerve by MarĂa Gainza (trans. Thomas Bunstead) (2014)
18:29 A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain (2022)
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Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
I read some really good books in April đ€
People/videos mentioned:
@alsopato
@nathansnook
reading vlog: youtu.be/PLscJ7tpCEw
Books:
1:41 Either/Or by Elif Batuman (2022)
The Idiot by Elif Batuman (2017)
3:53 If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (1974)
8:22 Augenblicke ed. by Claudine Delphis (1991)
9:15 Y/N by Esther Yi (2023)
11:25 Iâm a Fan by Sheena Patel (2022)
14:35 Katalin Street by Magda SzabĂł (trans. Len Rix) (1969)
16:04 Adolescence Leaves by Nathan Truong (2022)
16:47 Optic Nerve by MarĂa Gainza (trans. Thomas Bunstead) (2014)
18:29 A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain (2022)
Socials:
Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com





![Reading vlog: DNFs in 2022 so far & climbing out of a reading slump
Some [good] books I havenât been able to finish so far this year + trying to get out of a reading slump. Let me know what books have gotten YOU out of slumps before! Let me know the ones that put you there! Tell me why Im wrong to have dropped the books I did!
Books I mention:
đĄThe Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing (2013)
đĄI Love You but Iâve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins (2021)
đĄThe Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight (2022)
đEssays Two by Lydia Davis (2021)
đSpeedboat by Renata Adler (1976)
đHomesick for another World by Ottessa Moshfegh (2017)
đMcGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh (2014)
đThe Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (2018)
đKingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu (2022)
đSecrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman (1999)
đLook at Me by Jennifer Egan (2001)
đDependency by Tove Ditlevsen (1971)
đThe Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (2014)
đThe Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)
Other mentions:
@hannahmay11 April wrap-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmyxe-XZY0s
@linenlibrarian California dreamin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa4-KqetOB8
The Psychiatrist Who Believed People Could Tell the Future: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/the-psychiatrist-who-believed-people-could-tell-the-future/amp
Me elsewhere:
Insta (@sdelphis): https://www.instagram.com/sdelphis/?hl=en
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: https://sophiedelphis.substack.com Reading vlog: DNFs in 2022 so far & climbing out of a reading slump](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UPcabCUaGwM/mqdefault.jpg)



![22 books I read & loved in 2022
[Some of] my favorite books of the year! I definitely have a couple of types...
Fiction & poetry:
1. The Latinist by Mark Prins (2022)
2. The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington (1975)
3. The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen (1938)
4. The Door by Magda SzabĂł (trans. Len Rix) (1987)
5. Strangers I Know by Claudia Durastanti (trans. Elizabeth Harris) (2022)
6. Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (trans. Daisy Rockwell) (2021)
7. Tar Baby by Toni Morrison (1981)
8. Boulder by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanchez) (2020)
9. Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (1990)
10. A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt (2022)
11. Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works by John Ashbery (2022)
Nonfiction:
1. Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (2018)
2. Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez (2011)
3. Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image by Laura Mulvey (2006)
4. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing (2020)
5. Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (1955)
6. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark (2020)
7. Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon (2020)
8. Limbo by Dan Fox (2018)
9. The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner (2021)
10. Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri (2022)
11. How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo (2022)
Socials:
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StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: https://sophiedelphis.substack.com 22 books I read & loved in 2022](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XWrt5gZ8EU8/mqdefault.jpg)
