Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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I drink my Earl Grey and talk about myself
Tag questions:
1. Why did you start this channel?
2. What are some fun and unique things you can bring to booktube?
3. What are you most excited for about this new channel?
4. Why do you love reading?
5. What book or series got you into reading?
6. What questions would you ask your favorite booktubers?
7. What challenges do you think starting a booktube channel will be the hardest to overcome?
8. When did you start reading?
9. Where do you read?
10. What kind of books do you like to read?
11. What does your book collection look like?
Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphis/?hl=en
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com/p/look-at-me



![Reading vlog: DNFs in 2022 so far & climbing out of a reading slump
Some [good] books I haven’t 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:
🐡The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing (2013)
🐡I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins (2021)
🐡The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight (2022)
🐌Essays Two by Lydia Davis (2021)
🐌Speedboat by Renata Adler (1976)
🍋Homesick for another World by Ottessa Moshfegh (2017)
🍋McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh (2014)
🍋The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner (2018)
🍋Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu (2022)
🍋Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman (1999)
🍋Look at Me by Jennifer Egan (2001)
🍋Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen (1971)
🍋The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt (2014)
🍋The 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:
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![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 Szabó (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)
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