bibliosophie | April reading wrap-up @bibliosophie | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
In which I attempt (and fail) to concisely summarize the nonfiction and fiction books I read in April

Books I mention:
✨Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (1984)
✨Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai by Nina Mingya Powles (2019)
✨Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller (2020)
✨Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century edited by Jenny Minton Quigley (2021)
✨Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon (2020)
✨The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam (2011)

✨Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman (2021)
✨The Performance by Claire Thomas (2021)
✨The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (ed. Elizabeth Alexander) (2005)
✨The Promise by Silvina Ocampo (trans. Suzanne Jill Levine and Jessica Powell) (2011)
✨Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (2021)
✨Chanson Douce by Leïla Slimani (2016)
✨The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (2017)
✨Strangers I Know by Claudia Durastanti (trans. Elizabeth Harris) (2022)
✨To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)

Videos I mention:
Sister Outisider/Tiny Moons/Gwendolyn Brooks: youtube.com/watch?v=A4VFuUk1ric&t=448s
Strangers I Know/Leonora Carrington/Suppose a Sentence/Lolita in the Afterlife: youtube.com/watch?v=7gx8PcdpHGQ&t=728s
The Promise/Chanson Douce/ Lolita in the Afterlife/ The Queer Art of Failure: youtube.com/watch?v=rKaqGcuFgV8&t=330s

@r.enee.morris 's review of Something New Under the Sun: youtube.com/watch?v=H6JQYsuPfYA

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