Vlog: reading good books & navigating creative crisis bibliosophie 2023-09-25 | A reading vlog and, accidentally, a chronicle of school/career stress as I look ahead to larger projectsBooks: Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley (2015)Babel, of the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang (2022)The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idra Novey) (1964)Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler) (1973)In the Act by Rachel Ingalls (1987)This Little Art by Kate Briggs (2017)Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (2023)People/newsletters:Delphic Sophistry (me): sophiedelphis.substack.com@KDbooks Dank Academia: kdbooks.substack.com@nathansnook nookish notes: nookishnotes.beehiiv.com@kiranreader Zafarnama: kirangill.beehiiv.com@r.enee.morris Socials:Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphis
My autumn reading list bibliosophie 2024-09-16 | Fall tbr! New releases, books I've been talking about reading but still haven't gotten to & more...0:24 what's the point of a tbr?1:39 books:A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez (trans. Megan McDowell) (September 2024)Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst (October 2024)Vivienne by Emmalea Russo (September 2024)La Force de l'âge (The Prime of Life) by Simone de Beauvoir (1960)Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter) by Mariama Bâ (1980)The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (1982)The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer (1962)The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai (trans. George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet & John Batki) (2013)Essays Two by Lydia Davis (2021)Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)11:23 announcing a brief hiatus from posting videos -- see you soon[ish] 🖤socials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphissubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.combook club: bibliosophie.substack.com
Week in my life vlog: Clarice Lispector, Anne Carson, Rosalind Brown & music in New Hampshire bibliosophie 2024-09-09 | Saying goodbye to summer & hello to autumn through a week of residency in New Hampshire making music, writing & reading 🍏mentioned:@thelefthandedreader6632 books:An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector (1969 (French trans. Teresa & Jacques Thiériot) (English trans. Stefan Tobler)Antigonick by Sophocles/Anne Carson (2012)Practice by Rosalind Brown (2024)socials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphissubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.combook club: bibliosophie.substack.com
Cleaning up & reorganizing my home library ft. @benjaminjournal bibliosophie 2024-09-02 | Late summer mean an annual library clean-up/clean-out! I asked @benjaminjournal & his partner Ohad (instagram.com/ohadmazor) to drink with me as I culled & reorganized some of my books. Topics include: how to pronounce Simone Weil, my appreciation of cows, how I organize my books, new titles, The Secret History, Zadie Smith, Donna Haraway, reading goals, Poetry Magazine...1:32 drinking & sorting10:11 what did we actually accomplish? how should a home library be? what books am I getting rid of?socials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphissubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.combook club: bibliosophie.substack.com
Beautiful books / beauty in books bibliosophie 2024-08-26 | Contemplating beautiful books -- tag by @TheLinguistsLibrary & @ToReadersItMayConcern tag videos:youtube.com/watch?v=uxUCA-dRZG0&lc=UgyTWyH9DIqkY_P20u14AaABAg.A7Xc8UbFABfA7Xci7N8T32youtube.com/watch?v=cvGvttefDOo&lc=UgyQ-tx5mcmkvte8ylh4AaABAg.A7XyTtBlWH6A7Y-uEY49pobooks:beauty in concept: A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa (2021)beauty in an opening line: Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)beauty in character: The Door by Magda Szabó (1987) Beauty amidst pain: Pour un tombeau d’Anatole (A Tomb for Anatole) by Stéphane Mallarmé (1961)beauty in incompleteness: A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector (1978)beauty in place: Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (1971)beauty in time: À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust (1913)beauty in catharsis: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (2019)socials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphissubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.combook club: bibliosophie.substack.com
Week in my life vlog: Iceland & books by women in translation bibliosophie 2024-08-19 | The return of the week-long vlog! In this week's episode: a few days in Iceland and reading books written in French, Brazilian Portuguese and Catalanbooks:Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman (1996)The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright (2023Le mur invisible (Die Wand / The Wall) by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Liselotte Bodo & Jacqueline Chambon) (1963)Dans la mansarde (Die Mansarde / The Loft) by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Miguel Couffon) (1969)The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (trans. Johnny Lorenz) (1949) Mammoth by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2024)Permafrost by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2018)Boulder by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanchez) (2020)mentioned:@nathansnook socials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphissubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.combook club: bibliosophie.substack.com
New books in French & a giant library haul bibliosophie 2024-08-12 | Books I've amassed recently: some purchased in France, some borrowed from the librarypeople mentioned:@AnnNovella @thelefthandedreader6632 @litwithkat @SavidgeReads @jameskatie @benjaminjournal @thisisveryannoying @pastorytime2683 @MatthewSciarappa @theonlyrealproperty2567 @Slothreadersclub 1:15 books in French:L'Amour la mer by Pascal Quignard (2022)Anti-poétique et autres propos sur l'écriture by C. F. Ramuz (2024)Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes (I Who Have Never Known Men) by Jacqueline Harpman (1995)Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman (1996)Le mur invisible (Die Wand / The Wall) by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Liselotte Bodo & Jacqueline Chambon) (1963)Dans la mansarde (Die Mansarde / The Loft) by Marlen Haushofer (Miguel Couffon) (1969)Un apprentissage (Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres / An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures) by Clarice Lispector (trans. Jacques & Teresa Thiérot) (1969)Passage des heures (from Poemas de Álvaro de Campos) by Fernando Pessoa (trans. Jean-Louis Giovannoni, Isabelle Hourcade, Rémy Hourcade & Fabienne Vallin) (1930)Le livre de l'intranquilité (Livro do Desassossego / The Book of Disquiet) by Fernando Pessoa (trans. Françoise Laye) (1982)9:04 books in English:Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse (trans. Damion Searls) (2004)Antigonick by Sophocles / Anne Carson (2012)A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar (2019)My Work by Olga Ravn (trans. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell) (2020)Boys Alive by Pier Paolo Pasolini (trans. Tim Parks) (1955)The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer (1962)Making Space: Women and the Man Made Environment by Matrix (1982)The Variations by Patrick Langley (2023)The Long Form by Kate Briggs (2023)Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff (2023)Reenactments: Poems and Translations by Hai-Dang Phan (2019)Prelude by Brynne Rebele-Henry (2023)Irl by Tommy Pico (2016)Her Side of the Story by Alba de Céspedes (trans. Jill Foulston — I misattributed this translation to Ann Goldstein, who translated The Forbidden Notebook) (1952)The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie (2021)socials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphissubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.combook club: bibliosophie.substack.com
Vlog: reading & writing in the woods bibliosophie 2024-08-05 | I read & wrote a lot of words while camping in the woods 🌳 Cooking on campfires! Trees! Swimming! Human experience as a landscape! books:Death by Landscape by Elvia Wilk (2022) The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (trans. Johnny Lorenz) (1949)A Flat Place by Noreen Masud (2023)Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (trans. Philip Boehm) (1971)people:@nathansnook socials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphissubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.combook club: bibliosophie.substack.com
Look at me: creating, performing & being online bibliosophie 2024-07-25 | Here's a little bonus upload: Sophie reads an essay! I came across a short piece I wrote a little over two years ago about starting this channel, performing myself online/on stage/in real life, and seeking audience love. I still like it, and it still feels very true, so I'm reading it to you now.Here's the essay:sophiedelphis.substack.com/p/look-at-meSocials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphissubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.combook club: bibliosophie.substack.com
18 books about longing bibliosophie 2024-07-22 | Sehnsucht, desire, loss, lust, obsession, queerness, family, home... as summer rolls on in the northern hemisphere, let's dig into various facets of longingpeople mentioned:@benjaminjournal : youtube.com/watch?v=LhN0tiJE9dI@jameskatie books:Vilette by Charlotte Brontë (1853)Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb (trans. Len Rix) (1937)Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (1956)A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964)Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (1990)The Seas by Samantha Hunt (2004)Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (trans. Marjam Idriss) (2009)Liminal by Jordan Tannahill (2018)Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2020)If Only by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2016)Boulder by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanchez) (2020)Lote by Shola von Reinhold (2020)Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan (2021)A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt (2022)Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson (1986) Passion simple by Annie Ernaux (1992)Bluets by Maggie Nelson (2009)Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (2018) All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld (2024)socials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphissubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.combook club: bibliosophie.substack.com
Vlog: New York, London, Bretagne & slow reading bibliosophie 2024-07-15 | I didn't do a lot of reading for 2 weeks, but the reading I did do was good!people mentioned:@RoisinsReading @nathansnook : youtube.com/watch?v=5bataNedJt4&t=2s@casskrug : youtube.com/watch?v=dtTfT1aRTaY&t=1090s@r.enee.morris : youtube.com/watch?v=YK5Mk7Fc9rM&t=16sbooks:Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (1971)Parade by Rachel Cusk (2024)Second Place by Rachel Cusk (2021)socials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphissubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.combook club: bibliosophie.substack.com
My favorite books of the year so far bibliosophie 2024-07-08 | A mid-year list 🧡more about Art Monsters:youtube.com/watch?v=vKMXNLZIVxE&t=805smore about Is Mother Dead/Martyr!youtube.com/watch?v=0fY1mwPlsi8more about Martyr!/Art Monsters/Dictée:youtube.com/watch?v=ozR-5RZ6iN8&t=8smore about Say Nothing/Ordinary Notes/My Face for the World to See:youtube.com/watch?v=d6nqmeZ3vKE&t=735smore about The Hearing Test:youtube.com/watch?v=GxeYvk9uNyo&t=23sbooks:My Death by Lisa Tuttle (2004) Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2020) Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024) Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar (2021)Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, Lauren Elkin (2023) Dictée, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982) The Door, Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1987) (reread) Jazz, Toni Morrison (1992)A History of Opera: The Last Four Hundred Years, Carolyn Abbate & Roger Parker (2012)My Face for the World to See, Alfred Hayes (1958) Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe (2018) Say Translation is Art, Sawako Nakayasu (2020)Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe (2023) All Fours, Miranda July (2024) The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise, Olivia Laing (2024) Alphabetical Diaries, Sheila Heti (2024) A Burst of Light, Audrey Lorde (1988)Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, Danielle Dutton (2024) Liars, Sarah Manguso (2024) The Hearing Test, Eliza Barry Callahan (2024) The Red Tenda of Bologna, John Berger (2007) Love, Clarice Lispector (trans. Katarina Dodson) (1960)socials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphissubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.combook club: bibliosophie.substack.com
48 hours of reading bibliosophie 2024-06-24 | 48 hours of my reading life! 2 days of vlogging! That's it!mentions:The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan (2024)Modern Nature by Derek Jarman (1991)Hanne Darboven: moma.org/artists/1388"On Longing: The Art of Hanne Darboven" by Bruce Hainley (Artforum): artforum.com/features/on-longing-the-art-of-hanne-darboven-232464Einstein on the Beach & counting: youtu.be/6XgEwCTXHZU?si=qsTK1AHaOv7z_7OI&t=1556socials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphisbook club: bibliosophie.substack.com substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
How I get more out of reading bibliosophie 2024-06-17 | How do I read so that I feel like I'm getting more out of the experience? And what does that even mean? I share with you some of my thoughts & methods: rereading, annotating, reading multiple books at once, researching, etc.0:44 introducing the bibliosophie book club (bibliosophie.substack.com )2:20 read smart tag3:08 what does it mean to get "more out of reading"?6:13 reading "badly," summarizing, rereading, not finishing books, reading multiple books at once12:37 annotating18:16 examples of how I annotate20:03 creating, making connections, researching, sharingmentions:the #readsmart tag co-created by @ProseAndPetticoats & @ToReadersItMayConcern :youtube.com/watch?v=jqM-MNPyknM&t=59syoutube.com/watch?v=6OteFU0I0i8&t=1999swhat is reading? : youtube.com/watch?v=ufetELz9-Rg&t=181smore on annotation : youtube.com/watch?v=9PzaH5Ar7-Asocials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphissubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.combook club: bibliosophie.substack.com
New books & my summer reading list bibliosophie 2024-06-10 | My reading plans for the next few months: new books I've recently picked up, ongoing projects & [some of] the books on my summer tbr listpeople mentioned:@thelefthandedreader6632 @jameskatie @benjaminjournal @nathansnook books:Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton (2024)Liars by Sarah Manguso (out July 23, 2024)Confabulations by John Berger (2016)Gates & Fields by Jennifer Firestone (2017)Modern Nature by Derek Jarman (1991)Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (1971)Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (1954)Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667) La force de l'âge (The Prime of Life) by Simone de Beauvoir (1960)The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (1982)Neapolitan novels no. 3 & 4 by Elena Ferrante (2014, 2015)The Long Form by Kate Briggs (2023)The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (1949) (trans. Johnny Lorenz out June 11, 2024) / (La Ville assiégée trans. Jacques & Teresa Thiériot 1991)Parade by Rachel Cusk (2024)The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş (out July 9, 2024) socials:insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphissubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.combook club: bibliosophie.substack.com
Books for summer bibliosophie 2024-06-03 | Bringing you various facets of summer in beachy, pensive & stifling books 🍦Books:0:57 Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan (1954)1:53 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (1956)3:11 A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (1908)4:13 Outline by Rachel Cusk (2014) 5:06 Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (2009)6:18 Que reviennent ceux qui sont loin by Pierre Adrian (2022)8:13 The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978)9:29 The Colony by Audrey Magee (2022)11:09 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)12:00 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)13:13 L’étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus (1942)14:07 The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) (2002)15:08 A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (1980)16:16 Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri (2021)Socials:Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Week in my life vlog: highs & lows of early May bibliosophie 2024-05-13 | Dipping my toe back into vlogs after a month hiatus: new books, sun, new hair, grief, overwhelm, a houseguest & morePeople:@benjaminjournal @katsfieldnotes @mildrumpus Books:The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing (2024)Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe (2023)In Love by Alfred Hayes (1953)My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes (1958)An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children by Jamaica Kincaid & Kara Walker (2024)All Fours by Miranda July (2024)Jamaica Kincaid, Kara Walker & Hilton Als in conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=ZRc5oFHnBwQ&t=2134sSocials:Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
What I’ve been reading & some new books bibliosophie 2024-04-29 | A little catch-up of what I’ve been reading + some new releases and ARCsbooks:Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (2018)All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld (2024)Le deuxième sexe (The Second Sex) by Simone de Beauvoir (1949)Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru (2024)Beyond Eureka!: The Rocky Roads to Innovating by Marylene Delbourg-Delphis (2024): bookshop.org/p/books/beyond-eureka-the-rocky-roads-to-innovating-marylene-delbourg-delphis/20714340?ean=9781647124229Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings (2024)An Island by Karen Jennings (2020)All Fours by Miranda July (2024)The Material by Camille Bordas (2024)Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (2024)discussion of Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex: bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b4ts2tsocials:Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Week in my life vlog: the eclipse, complex archives, new fiction bibliosophie 2024-04-15 | Another week reading and fretting with ya girl!people:@noorsbookshelf talks about Ordinary Notes : youtube.com/watch?v=bf1h2-gKcy0&t=1671s@alsopato @thelefthandedreader6632 books:Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (2018)Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe (2023)Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham (2024)My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes (1958)In Love by Alfred Hayes (1953)The End of Me by Alfred Hayes (1968)
Week in my life vlog: studying & flâneuserie bibliosophie 2024-04-08 | This week: trying to get over a cold, studying for an exam, reading about women authors and artists, dyeing my hair bright purple, complaining about the weather (again!)Books:Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin (2016)A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs (2023)My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes (1958)Elsewhere:@katsfieldnotes watch me do trivia hosted by @TheDiscoKingOfficial : youtube.com/live/jo-KMWKMlpU?si=xb2dXXqdLQQCo6GZwatch we talk with @RoisinsReading about East of Eden: youtube.com/watch?v=B8uSS4QJKsISocials:Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Week in my life vlog: early spring in New York bibliosophie 2024-03-25 | Taste-testing Tajín gummy bears, being heavily affected by the changeable weather and, of course, reading some booksElizabeth Strout video by @MatthewSciarappa : youtube.com/watch?v=uH0KP95EUh0Books:The Long Form by Kate Briggs (2023)Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin (2017)Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin (2023)Grief is for People: A Memoir by Sloane Crosley (2024)Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh (June 2024)Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (August 2024)The Observable Universe: An Investigation by Heather McCalden (2024)Socials:Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
What is reading? bibliosophie 2024-03-18 | I often say I love reading, but what *is* it, anyway? Ruminate with me!Socials:Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Week in my life vlog: writing regularly, winter sadness & a small reading slump bibliosophie 2024-03-11 | This week in New York: trying to establish a writing practice, flirting with a reading slump, rereading, phasing in and out of seasonal (?) depressionpeople:@nathansnook @hipanna2773 @katsfieldnotes books:La femme rompue (The Woman Destroyed) by Simone de Beauvoir (1967)The Door by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1987)Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham (2024)Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)socials:Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
February things bibliosophie 2024-03-03 | Books, poems, movies, music! Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982)Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin (2023)East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)Pour une morale de l’ambiguïté by Simone de Beauvoir (1947)Le Tartuffe by Molière (1664)21 Poems (2017/1930) & other poems of George Oppen poems of Mahmoud Darwish“Dark Days” (1980) & others essays of James BaldwinLa règle du jeu dir. by Jean Renoir (1939)Phantom Thread dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson (2017)All of Us Strangers dir. by Andrew Haigh (2023)Debussy String Quartet, op. 10 (1893) performed by Emerson QuartetBartók String Quartet no. 4, mvt. 3 (1928) performed by Takács Quartet“And So” (Evergreen) by Caroline Shaw (2018) performed by Caroline Shaw + Attacca Quartet The New Sound Meditation by Pauline Oliveros (1988)Dictée & East of Eden previously: youtube.com/watch?v=N99ZVyt7MaQ&t=76sMartyr! previously: youtube.com/watch?v=0fY1mwPlsi8Art Monsters previously: youtube.com/watch?v=vKMXNLZIVxE&t=89sSocials:Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Book lover has a grudge against Charles Dickens: 20 questions with a booktuber bibliosophie 2024-02-26 | If you feel like you want to even hear more about my bookish predilections, this is the video for you! I was tagged by @Grandpasbookclub & @ebonykenae to do the @jack_in_the_books 20 questions tag, and I now tag *you* dear viewerpeople mentioned:@jameskatie @nathansnook books & authors:the Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante (2012-15)the seasonal quartet by Ali Smith (2016-20)A Tale of Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison (2019)East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)Pour une morale de l’ambiguïté (The Ethics of Ambiguity) by Simone de Beauvoir (1947)Everybody by Olivia Laing (2020)On Freedom by Maggie Nelson (2021)the Iliad & the Odyssey by Homer (8th c. BCE)Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)Motherhood by Sheila Heti (2018)Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (1973)The Biography of X by Catherine Lacey (2023)The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles (2009)other videos:my top ten books: youtu.be/vqNEP0FvMkI?si=V6NYtpw6SRznUxCJq & a pt. 1: youtu.be/GvZvh-40dxM?si=APBrQLP0p3A-fFvBoriginal tag video: youtube.com/watch?v=fM7AnXgxtVEHow many books in a series is too many?Cliffhangers yes or no?Hard back or paper back?Favourite book?Least favourite book?Love triangles yes or no?A book you couldn’t finish?Current read?Last book you recommended to someone?Oldest book you’ve read?Newest book you’ve read?Favourite author?Buying or borrowing books?A book everyone liked and you didn’t?Book mark or dog ear?Book you’ve re-read the most?Music while reading?One or multiple pov?One sitting or multiple days?Book you read because of the cover?socials:Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Week in my life vlog: reading slowly, working on my dissertation & planning large projects bibliosophie 2024-02-19 | Slowly making my way through some books while I try to use a relatively freer week to work on large-scale creative & writing projectsBooks:East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982)Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté (The Ethics of Ambiguity) by Simone de Beauvoir (1947)La femme rompue (The Woman Destroyed) by Simone de Beauvoir (1967)Socials:Insta: @sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Week in my life vlog: reading about mothers, martyrs, legacies bibliosophie 2024-02-05 | A very grey, very busy winter week in New York with three good books1:40 Of Woman Born2:12 Is Mother Dead in progress9:02 wrapping up Is Mother Dead11:19 wrapping up Of Woman Born14:34 Martyr! in progress18:20 legaciesBooks:Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2020) Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich (1976)Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)Mentions:@MatthewSciarappa talking about Of Woman Born previously: youtube.com/watch?v=Hgnp6XASMp4&t=49sSocials:Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
10 classics I want to read in 2024 bibliosophie 2024-01-29 | What makes something a “classic”? How old does it have to be? How much a part of the canon? And which/whose canon are we talking about anyway? Here are ten books I’m calling classics, and that I’d like to read in 2024.I’m a little late to this train, but so be it — there are still eleven months left in the year to get to these…Books:Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal (1830)I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki (1905)The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905)Antigone by Jean Anouilh (1944)East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)Another Country by James Baldwin (1962)The Promised Land by Grace Ogot (1966)Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter) by Mariama Bâ (1980)The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (1982)People:@yenasung @RoisinsReading Socials:Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Week in my life vlog: books on art, freedom & feminism bibliosophie 2024-01-22 | This week: trying to be productive in winter, snow in New York, lemon pie, friends, reading nonfiction on art & feminismBooks:On Freedom by Maggie Nelson (2021)Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin (2023)Le deuxième sexe (The Second Sex) by Simone de Beauvoir (1949)Socials:Insta: @sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Week in my life vlog: a book haul, last days in France, NYC bibliosophie 2024-01-15 | In this week’s edition: a French book haul, my little life in France chugs along, snow, more pensive walks, New York, I jump back into city life0:49 La vengeance m’appartient2:15 Blueberries3:18 Seduction4:28 book haul10:45 La vengeance m’appartient15:16 People CollidePeople:@Grandpasbookclub @nathansnook @hannahmay11 @yenasung Books:La vengeance m’appartient (Vengeance is Mine) by Marie NDiaye (2021)Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding by Ellena Savage (2020)Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth (2018)People Collide by Isle McElroy (2023)The Atmospherians by Isle McElroy (2021)L’amie prodigieuse I-IV (Neapolitan quartet) by Elena Ferrante (trans. Elsa Damien) Des âmes simples by Pierre Adrian (2017)Le deuxième sexe (The Second Sex) by Simone de Beauvoir (1949)Corps et biens by Robert Desnos (1930)L’écharpe rouge (The Red Scarf) by Yves Bonnefoy (2016)Aujourd’hui by Blaise Cendrars (1931)Pas dormir (Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia) by Marie Darrieussecq (2021)Socials:Insta: @sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Week in my life vlog: the end of 2023, the start of 2024 in Bretagne bibliosophie 2024-01-08 | First vlog of the year coming to you from the French seaside: muddy walks, feeling small in the glory of nature, time with my family & reading, of course.0:54 Of Woman Born5:40 Kick the Latch10:48 My Death14:00 productivity crisis / My Death16:50 Of Woman BornPeople:@benjaminjournal @kiranreader @thelefthandedreader6632 Books:Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich (1976)Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan (2022)My Death by Lisa Tuttle (2004)Socials: Insta: @sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
New Years resolutions dont really work, but I made some anyway: reading in 2023, plans for 2024 bibliosophie 2024-01-01 | To ring in 2024, I looked back on my year of reading in 2023 and made some resolutions & plans for what I wanted to do in 2024 🥂I finished 128 books in 2023. You can find the complete list here: sophiedelphis.substack.com/p/the-books-i-read-in-2023?r=dy3wj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=webAuthors mentioned:James BaldwinElena FerranteToni MorrisonClarice LispectorNatalia GinzburgSimone de BeauvoirSocials:Insta: @sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
The best books I read in 2023 bibliosophie 2023-12-26 | The end of the year means “best of” lists: these were my favorite fiction and nonfiction reads of 2023! Enjoy, and let me know which ones you’ve read or want to read 🖤01:00 Fiction:Quicksand by Nella Larsen (1928)Permafrost by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2018) If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga (2022) If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (1974) I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel (2022)Katalin Street by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1969) Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel (trans. Rosalind Harvey) (2020) The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idra Novey) (1964) Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (2023) Que reviennent ceux qui sont loin by Pierre Adrian (2022)13:23 Nonfiction:Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose (2017)Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai (2005)Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz (1991)In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) (2021) Passion simple (Simple Passion) by Annie Ernaux (1992)A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain (2022)Death by Landscape by Elvia Wilk (2022) Le piccole virtú (The Little Virtues) by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Dick Davis) (1962)This Little Art by Kate Briggs (2018)They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib (2017)Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction by Brian Dillon (2017)Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation ed. by Jeremy Tiang and Kavita Bhanot (2022)Socials:Insta: @sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Q&A: what’s in my bag, life in New York, style, movies, food & more bibliosophie 2023-12-18 | Get to know me a bit better, the sequel! Thanks for asking a whole bunch of questions recently. In this volume, I talk about: what’s in my bag, my life in New York, my style, movies, favorite foods & morePeople: @AnaWallaceJohnson 5 favorite used bookstores: youtube.com/watch?v=K5ID6106jXI@benreadsgood “what’s in my bag” video with @yenasung : youtube.com/watch?v=zY6ifMDWFE4&t=22s@pastorytime2683 @batumanslittleidiot @nathansnook Places & things:Unnameable Books, BrooklynHousing Works Crosby St, Manhattan192 Books, ManhattanBookthug Nation, BrooklynTroubled Sleep, Brooklynmy favorite books set in NY: youtube.com/watch?v=6fUQtwuw45g&t=2sThe Lonely City by Olivia Laing (2017)the plays of Molière (1622-1673)The Color of of Pomegranates dir. Sergei Parajanov (1969)Mon Oncle dir. by Jacques Tati (1958)Psycho dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1960)Socials:Insta: @sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Vlog: trying to stay focused & healthy during a busy end of the year bibliosophie 2023-12-13 | Two weeks of a particularly busy stretch of music learning, rehearsing & performing: I told myself I'd try to make reading a part of my daily rituals to stay as happy, healthy and productive as possible. I said I'd exercise a little, cook, read before bed, sleep... was I successful? Spoiler: we've got some ups and downs, people.People:@kailienatsu @claaaaaara Books:Stoner by John Williams (1965)Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon (2023)Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation ed. by Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang (2022)Ficciones (Fictions) by Jorge Luis Borges (1944)Shifting the Silence by Etel Adnan (2020)Socials:Insta: @sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
November reading wrap-up bibliosophie 2023-12-10 | November was a very good, pensive reading month! Meditations, Irish and French contemporary lit., prose written by poets & just a little nonfictionpeople:@AnnNovella recommended Szerb@litwithkat made me want to read Dolan: youtube.com/watch?v=ZrzL7eP6-0w@kailienatsu made me want to read Adnan: youtube.com/watch?v=ER0mpqwFDX0&t=10sbooks:Pond, Claire-Louise Bennett (2015)L’Heure de l’étoile, Clarice Lispector (trans. Marguerite Wünscher) (1977) (reread)Journey by Moonlight, Antal Szerb (trans. Len Rix) (1937)Un chien à ma table, Claudie Hunzinger (2022)I Fear My Pain Interests You, Stephanie LaCava (2022) Que reviennent ceux qui sont loin, Pierre Adrian (2022)Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between, Joseph Osmundson (2023)Affinities: On Art and Fascination, Brian Dillon (2023)Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan (2020)A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa (2021) (reread)Shifting the Silence, Etel Adnan (2020)socials:Insta: @sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Q&A: my favorite books & authors, reading in French, my music, academia bibliosophie 2023-11-27 | Get to know me a bit better! You asked me enough questions that I've decided to break up my answers into two parts. Here, I talk about books, authors, being French, my music career & my academic life. Come back for more about my life in New York, my style & general bits and bobs about me 🖤People & books mentioned:The Metamorphoses by Ovid (8 CE)the poems of Catullus Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (1984)Katalin Street by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1969) Love by Toni Morrison (2003) They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib (2017) Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1912)Gustave FlaubertHonoré de BalzacMarcel ProustAlbert CamusSimone de BeauvoirFrantz FanonJacques DerridaMichel FoucaultRoland BarthesJulia Kristeva ApollonaireStéphane MallarméCharles BaudelaireLouise de Vilmorin Marie NdiayeChloé DelaumeCécile CoulonLéonora MianoSocials:Insta: @sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Diving into Clarice Lispectors novels: what to read first & what makes her special bibliosophie 2023-11-25 | @nathansnook & I reunite to talk about our experience reading Clarice Lispector's novels: her atomic introspection, cosmic charisma & idiosyncratic style ✨Previously in the series "Nathan & Sophie talk about Clarice": youtube.com/watch?v=S83AYaS_GaQLispector’s novels:Perto do Coração Selvagem (1943) —Near to the Wild Heart (trans. 1990 by Giovanni Pontiero; 2012 by Alison Entrekin)O Lustre (1946) —The Chandelier (1946) (trans. 2018 by Benjamin Moser and Magdalena Edwards)A Cidade Sitiada (1949) —The Besieged City (trans. 2019 by Johnny Lorenz)A Maçã no Escuro (1961) —The Apple in the Dark (trans. 1967 by Gregory Rabass; 2023 by Benjamin Moser)A Paixão Segundo G.H. (1964) —The Passion According to G.H. (trans. 1988 by Ronald Sousa and 2012 by Idra Novey)Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres (1969) —An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (trans. 1986 by Richard A. Mazzara and Lorri A. Parris; 2021 by Stefan Tobler)Água viva (1973) —Água viva (trans. 1978 by Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz as The Stream of Life; 2012 by Stefan Tobler)A Hora da Estrela (1977) —The Hour of the Star (trans. 1992 by Giovanni Pontiero; 2011 by Benjamin Moser)L'Heure de l'étoile (trans. 1985 Marguerite Wünscher)Um Sopro de Vida (Pulsações) (1978) —A Breath of Life (trans. 2012 by Johnny Lorenz)Un souffle de vie (trans. 1998 Teresa ThiériotSocials:Insta: @sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Vlog: autumn, getting back into a good reading groove & a short trip to Boston bibliosophie 2023-11-13 | It suddenly started to feel autumnal in NYC this month, I became an accidental morning person because of the time change, and the first half of November has yielded good reading.Mentioned:@AnnNovella Books:L’Heure de l’étoile (The Hour of the Star) by Clarice Lispector (trans. Marguerite Wünscher) (1977) Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon (2023)Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb (trans. Len Rix) (1937)Un chien à ma table by Claudie Hunzinger (2022) Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between by Joseph Osmundson (2022)I Fear My Pain Interests You by Stephanie LaCava (2022)Socials:Insta: @sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
End of the year book tag bibliosophie 2023-11-06 | This one’s been making the rounds: I was tagged, so I’m playing along! Here are some plans for the rest of my reading year. Plus, unrelatedly, an announcement: I’m planning to do a Q&A soon, so ask what you’d like to know about me 🖤Books:Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser (2009)Stoner by John Williams (1965)Day by Michael Cunningham (2023)Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between by Joseph Osmundson (2022)Kurt Weill en France by Alain Jomy (2023)Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative by Peter Brooks (2022)People: @nathansnook @MatthewSciarappa Original tag video by @ArielBissett : youtu.be/wlKiCFTVmXI?si=oB0iLiowkoI82OpD1. Are there any books you started this year and need to finish?2. Do you have any autumnal books to transition to the end of the year?3. Is there a new release that you are still waiting for?4. Three books you want to read by the end of the year?5. Are there any books that could shock you and be your favorite book of the year?6. Have you started making reading plans for next year yet?Socials:Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
October vlog: a reading slump, finishing books & trying to be more methodical bibliosophie 2023-11-01 | Reading and ruminating in October: a reading slump, trying to find a rhythm and more enthusiasm in how I currently consume books, busy days, finishing books that have been in progress for too longBooks:They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib (2017)The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton (1973)Babel: An Arcane History by R. F. Kuang (2022)The Fawn by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1959)Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon (2023)Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (trans. Marjam Idriss) (2009)Death by Landscape by Elvia Wilk (2022)Socials: Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
September reading wrap-up bibliosophie 2023-10-23 | Books from September!People/videos:@pastorytime2683 @jameskatie @pleasuresofthetext on Doris Lessing: youtube.com/watch?v=yoqdsWs4ATcmy previous vlog: youtube.com/watch?v=AoGyjcv4Gi4Books:The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Frances Frenaye) (1947)Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman (1990)Exercices de style by Raymond Queneau (1947)The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idea Novey) (1964)Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler) (1973)In the Act by Rachel Ingalls (1987)Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley (2015)Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (2023)This Little Art by Kate Briggs (2018)The Golden Notebooks by Doris Lessing (1962)Socials: Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Books for autumn bibliosophie 2023-10-07 | It's autumn in the northern hemisphere! To celebrate, I bring you a list of moody, melancholy, cozy, contemplative and eerie books that fit the atmosphere 🍁🍂Mentioned: @ivanainthecity Books:Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au (2022)An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine (2014)The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (2011)The Coming Bad Days by Sarah Bernstein (2021)Vilette by Charlotte Brontë (1853)Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)Mrs. March by Virginia Feito (2021)Howards End by E. M. Forster (1910)The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)Pour un tombeau d'Anatole (For Anatole's Tomb) by Stéphane Mallrmé (1961, pub. posthumously)Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (2020)Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (1957)Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver (2016)stories by Edgar Allen PoeAutumn by Ali Smith (2016)On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2005)Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (2009)The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (1948)Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton (1973)Letters from Maine by May Sarton (1984)Un chien à ma table by Claudie Hunzinger (2022)Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1974)Three Streets by Yoko Tawada (trans. Margaret Mitsutani) (2022)Socials:Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Summer reading wrap-up: all the books I finished in July & August bibliosophie 2023-09-11 | It’s a two-month mega-wrap! I was really putting off filming this one, but on a stormy late summer evening, I sat down with a tiny fancy glass of fortified wine and a pile of books. Videos mentioned:August poetry: youtu.be/0djuueRWU98?si=6hhZseRWskw37aY5Jaeggy/Ginzburg/Thomas/Taylor: youtu.be/hgHAOJrOHGM?si=-7w6z-N1ynmGc2FAPeople:@cs0p @hannahmay11 @nathansnook Books:Fille d'Amanitore & Et que mon règne arrive by Léonora Miano (2023)Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett (2021)The Story of a New Name / Storia del nuovo cognome by Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) (2012) Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction by Brian Dillon (2017)Love by Toni Morrison (2003)The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (trans. H. T. Lowe-Porter / John E. Woods) (1924)Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (trans. Tim Parks) (1989)Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes (trans. Ann Goldstein) (1952) Journal de nage, Chantal Thomas (2022)The Little Virtues / Le piccole virtú by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Dick Davis) (1962)The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor (2023)The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi (2023) The Guest by Emma Cline (2023)The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles (2009)Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin (2022)Socials: Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Shorty September: some recommendations & books I plan to read bibliosophie 2023-09-08 | Reading some shorties for September! Here are some recommendations from my bookshelves that fit the bill, as well as some of the books I’d like to get to this month. More information on the shorty September challenge and its reading prompts here: youtube.com/watch?v=y-tOINKwgDM&t=210sPeople:@pastorytime2683 @r.enee.morris Books:Une gourmandise (Gourmet Rhapsody) by Muriel BarberyAssembly by Natasha BrownThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington Gigi by ColetteSecond Place by Rachel CuskThe Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Une femme (A Woman’s Story) by Annie ErnauxThe Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein)Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (trans. Tim Parks)Passing by Nella LarsenQuicksand by Nella LarsenÁgua Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler)Bartleby by Herman MelvilleSula by Toni MorrisonRecitatif by Toni Morrison The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark Study for Obedience by Sarah BernsteinFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesFriends and Relations by Elizabeth BowenBreakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman CapoteNotes on Suicide by Simon CritchleyThe Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Frances Frenaye)The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth HardwickThe Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idra Novey)Exercises de style by Raymond QueneauBirds of America by Lottie MooreTenth of December by George SaundersHow to Loiter in a Turf War by Coco SolidSocials: Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
I read poetry everyday for a month bibliosophie 2023-09-04 | This year, I decided to really attempt #TheSealeyChallenge: to read a book of poetry everyday in August. Here’s my journey over the course of the month!00:01:19 first check-in (2 weeks)00:10:34 second check-in (3 weeks)00:14:32 last check-in (4 weeks)00:16:48 all the booksPeople:@MatthewSciarappa @nathansnook @dinaklarisse Books:1. Muscle Memory, Jenny Liou (2022)2. Les Ronces, Cécile Coulon (2018)3. Soft Science, Franny Choi (2019) 4. On Earth, Robert Creeley (2006)5. What Silence Equals, Tory Dent (1993) 6. Elegies, Muriel Rukeyser (1949)7. Some Changes, June Jordan (1971) 8. Letters from Maine, May Sarton (1984) 9. Skin of Nocturnal Apple, Misha Honcharenko (2023)10. Please, Jericho Brown (2008)11. Débarcadères, Jules Supervielle (1966)12. Pleasure, Angelo Nikolopoulos (2022)13. Beasts at Every Threshold, Natalie Wee (2022) 14. Rendang, Will Harris (2020)15. Blue in Green, Chiyuma Elliott (2021)16. Quiet, Victoria Adukwei Bulley (2022)17. To Stay Alive, Denise Levertov (1971)18. Normal Distance, Elisa Gabbert (2022)19. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, John Ashbery (1975) 20. Junk, Tommy Pico (2018)21. The Sonnets, Ted Berrigan (1964)22. Singularities, Susan Howe (1990)23. Tanya, Brenda Shaughnessy (2023)24. After Lorca, Jack Spicer (1957)25. Handspun Rosaries, Dina Klarisse (2022)26. Meditations in an Emergency, Frank O’Hara (1957)
A tour of my bookshelves bibliosophie 2023-08-28 | [Enough of] you asked for a home library tour, and here it is! Fiction, poetry, sundry nonfiction topics & many bibelots... let's take a closer look at how I organize my shelves 📚
Talking books in Nolita with Modern Ajumma: literary hot takes, likes & dislikes bibliosophie 2023-08-21 | It’s a crossover episode! Internet friends! On a sunny summer afternoon at Elizabeth Street Garden in Manhattan, @yenasung and I discuss: literary hot takes, not getting into Sally Rooney, my dislike of Richard Powers’ The Overstory, finishing versus dropping books, the pull of nostalgia, our booktube habits & more… Please excuse some ambient noise that comes from filming in a public place 🌱Socials: Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
The biggest books in my home library bibliosophie 2023-08-07 | Big books big books big books! The longest novels in my home library, whether or not I’ve read them & a few thoughts on reading very long books.People:@benreadsgood : youtube.com/watch?v=6xbb6IKUz24@RoisinsReading Books:3:56 Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (2021)4:56 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)6:30 The good soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek (1921)7:07 Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1872)7:51 Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)8:35 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013)9:40 Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)11:00 The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (2013)11:52 Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871)12:55 La Vérité sur l’Affaire Harry Quebert by Joël Dicker (2012)13:53 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)14:34 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004)16:34 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1879)18:34 Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (2006)19:31 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1996)21:45 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)23:10 why read long books & how I approach doing soSocials:Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Reading as many short books as I can in a week bibliosophie 2023-07-31 | Reading through the short books I packed before I head to New YorkBooks:Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (trans. Tim Parks) (1989)Journal de nage by Chantal Thomas (2022)The Little Virtues / Le piccole virtú by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Dick Davis) (1962) Le je-ne-sais-quoi et le presque-rien by Vladimir Jankélévitch (1980)The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor (2023)Socials:Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphisStoryGraph: @sdelphisSubstack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
