socials: insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphis book club: bibliosophie.substack.com substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comMy autumn reading listbibliosophie2024-09-16 | 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: @sdelphis substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com book club: bibliosophie.substack.comWeek in my life vlog: Clarice Lispector, Anne Carson, Rosalind Brown & music in New Hampshirebibliosophie2024-09-09 | 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: @sdelphis substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com book club: bibliosophie.substack.comCleaning up & reorganizing my home library ft. @benjaminjournalbibliosophie2024-09-02 | 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 & sorting 10:11 what did we actually accomplish? how should a home library be? what books am I getting rid of?
socials: insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphis substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com book club: bibliosophie.substack.comBeautiful books / beauty in booksbibliosophie2024-08-26 | Contemplating beautiful books -- tag by @TheLinguistsLibrary & @ToReadersItMayConcern
books: 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: @sdelphis substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com book club: bibliosophie.substack.comWeek in my life vlog: Iceland & books by women in translationbibliosophie2024-08-19 | 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 Catalan
books: Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman (1996) The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright (2023 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 (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: @sdelphis substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com book club: bibliosophie.substack.comNew books in French & a giant library haulbibliosophie2024-08-12 | Books I've amassed recently: some purchased in France, some borrowed from the library
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: @sdelphis substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com book club: bibliosophie.substack.comVlog: reading & writing in the woodsbibliosophie2024-08-05 | 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: @sdelphis substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com book club: bibliosophie.substack.comLook at me: creating, performing & being onlinebibliosophie2024-07-25 | 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.
Socials: insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphis substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com book club: bibliosophie.substack.com18 books about longingbibliosophie2024-07-22 | Sehnsucht, desire, loss, lust, obsession, queerness, family, home... as summer rolls on in the northern hemisphere, let's dig into various facets of longing
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: @sdelphis substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com book club: bibliosophie.substack.comVlog: New York, London, Bretagne & slow readingbibliosophie2024-07-15 | I didn't do a lot of reading for 2 weeks, but the reading I did do was good!
books: 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: @sdelphis substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com book club: bibliosophie.substack.comHow I get more out of readingbibliosophie2024-06-17 | 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 tag 3:08 what does it mean to get "more out of reading"? 6:13 reading "badly," summarizing, rereading, not finishing books, reading multiple books at once 12:37 annotating 18:16 examples of how I annotate 20:03 creating, making connections, researching, sharing
socials: insta: @sdelphis storygraph: @sdelphis substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com book club: bibliosophie.substack.comNew books & my summer reading listbibliosophie2024-06-10 | 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 list
people 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)
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: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comWeek in my life vlog: highs & lows of early Maybibliosophie2024-05-13 | Dipping my toe back into vlogs after a month hiatus: new books, sun, new hair, grief, overwhelm, a houseguest & more
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)
Socials: Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comWhat I’ve been reading & some new booksbibliosophie2024-04-29 | A little catch-up of what I’ve been reading + some new releases and ARCs
books: 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=9781647124229 Crooked 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)
socials: Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comWeek in my life vlog: the eclipse, complex archives, new fictionbibliosophie2024-04-15 | Another week reading and fretting with ya girl!
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 & flâneuseriebibliosophie2024-04-08 | 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)
Socials: Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comWeek in my life vlog: early spring in New Yorkbibliosophie2024-03-25 | Taste-testing Tajín gummy bears, being heavily affected by the changeable weather and, of course, reading some books
Books: 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: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comWhat is reading?bibliosophie2024-03-18 | I often say I love reading, but what *is* it, anyway? Ruminate with me!
Socials: Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comWeek in my life vlog: writing regularly, winter sadness & a small reading slumpbibliosophie2024-03-11 | This week in New York: trying to establish a writing practice, flirting with a reading slump, rereading, phasing in and out of seasonal (?) depression
people: @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)
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 Baldwin La 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 Quartet Bartók 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)
Socials: Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comBook lover has a grudge against Charles Dickens: 20 questions with a booktuberbibliosophie2024-02-26 | 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 viewer
people 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)
original tag video: youtube.com/watch?v=fM7AnXgxtVE How 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: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comWeek in my life vlog: reading slowly, working on my dissertation & planning large projectsbibliosophie2024-02-19 | Slowly making my way through some books while I try to use a relatively freer week to work on large-scale creative & writing projects
Books: 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: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comWeek in my life vlog: reading about mothers, martyrs, legaciesbibliosophie2024-02-05 | A very grey, very busy winter week in New York with three good books
1:40 Of Woman Born 2:12 Is Mother Dead in progress 9:02 wrapping up Is Mother Dead 11:19 wrapping up Of Woman Born 14:34 Martyr! in progress 18:20 legacies
Books: 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)
Socials: Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com10 classics I want to read in 2024bibliosophie2024-01-29 | 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/sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comWeek in my life vlog: books on art, freedom & feminismbibliosophie2024-01-22 | This week: trying to be productive in winter, snow in New York, lemon pie, friends, reading nonfiction on art & feminism
Books: 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: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comWeek in my life vlog: a book haul, last days in France, NYCbibliosophie2024-01-15 | 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 life
0:49 La vengeance m’appartient 2:15 Blueberries 3:18 Seduction 4:28 book haul 10:45 La vengeance m’appartient 15:16 People Collide
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: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comWeek in my life vlog: the end of 2023, the start of 2024 in Bretagnebibliosophie2024-01-08 | 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 Born 5:40 Kick the Latch 10:48 My Death 14:00 productivity crisis / My Death 16:50 Of Woman Born
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: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comNew Years resolutions dont really work, but I made some anyway: reading in 2023, plans for 2024bibliosophie2024-01-01 | 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 🥂
Authors mentioned: James Baldwin Elena Ferrante Toni Morrison Clarice Lispector Natalia Ginzburg Simone de Beauvoir
Socials: Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comThe best books I read in 2023bibliosophie2023-12-26 | 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: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comQ&A: what’s in my bag, life in New York, style, movies, food & morebibliosophie2023-12-18 | 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 & more
Places & things: Unnameable Books, Brooklyn Housing Works Crosby St, Manhattan 192 Books, Manhattan Bookthug Nation, Brooklyn Troubled Sleep, Brooklyn my favorite books set in NY: youtube.com/watch?v=6fUQtwuw45g&t=2s The 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: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comVlog: trying to stay focused & healthy during a busy end of the yearbibliosophie2023-12-13 | 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: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comNovember reading wrap-upbibliosophie2023-12-10 | November was a very good, pensive reading month! Meditations, Irish and French contemporary lit., prose written by poets & just a little nonfiction
books: 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: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comQ&A: my favorite books & authors, reading in French, my music, academiabibliosophie2023-11-27 | 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 Flaubert Honoré de Balzac Marcel Proust Albert Camus Simone de Beauvoir Frantz Fanon Jacques Derrida Michel Foucault Roland Barthes Julia Kristeva Apollonaire Stéphane Mallarmé Charles Baudelaire Louise de Vilmorin Marie Ndiaye Chloé Delaume Cécile Coulon Léonora Miano
Socials: Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comDiving into Clarice Lispectors novels: what to read first & what makes her specialbibliosophie2023-11-25 | @nathansnook & I reunite to talk about our experience reading Clarice Lispector's novels: her atomic introspection, cosmic charisma & idiosyncratic style ✨
Lispector’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 Thiériot
Socials: Insta: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comVlog: autumn, getting back into a good reading groove & a short trip to Bostonbibliosophie2023-11-13 | 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: @sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comEnd of the year book tagbibliosophie2023-11-06 | 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=oB0iLiowkoI82OpD 1. 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/sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comOctober vlog: a reading slump, finishing books & trying to be more methodicalbibliosophie2023-11-01 | 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 long
Books: 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)
Books: 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/sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comBooks for autumnbibliosophie2023-10-07 | 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 Poe Autumn 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/sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comVlog: reading good books & navigating creative crisisbibliosophie2023-09-25 | A reading vlog and, accidentally, a chronicle of school/career stress as I look ahead to larger projects
Books: 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)
Socials: Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphisSummer reading wrap-up: all the books I finished in July & Augustbibliosophie2023-09-11 | 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.
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/sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comShorty September: some recommendations & books I plan to readbibliosophie2023-09-08 | 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=210s
People: @pastorytime2683 @r.enee.morris
Books: Une gourmandise (Gourmet Rhapsody) by Muriel Barbery Assembly by Natasha Brown The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington Gigi by Colette Second Place by Rachel Cusk The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Une femme (A Woman’s Story) by Annie Ernaux The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (trans. Tim Parks) Passing by Nella Larsen Quicksand by Nella Larsen Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler) Bartleby by Herman Melville Sula by Toni Morrison Recitatif by Toni Morrison The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges Friends and Relations by Elizabeth Bowen Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Frances Frenaye) The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idra Novey) Exercises de style by Raymond Queneau Birds of America by Lottie Moore Tenth of December by George Saunders How to Loiter in a Turf War by Coco Solid
Socials: Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comI read poetry everyday for a monthbibliosophie2023-09-04 | 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 books
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 bookshelvesbibliosophie2023-08-28 | [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 & dislikesbibliosophie2023-08-21 | 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/sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comThe biggest books in my home librarybibliosophie2023-08-07 | 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.
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 so
Socials: Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphis StoryGraph: @sdelphis Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.comReading as many short books as I can in a weekbibliosophie2023-07-31 | Reading through the short books I packed before I head to New York
Books: 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)