Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
What I read (and didn’t read) this summer, difficulties of life after cancer, what I might read in September/autumn. I’ve been struggling to read and make videos about reading, so I’m hoping a little chat about what’s been going on might help me.
books:
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (trans. Diana Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor) (written 1928-40, published 1967, uncensored 1973)
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector (en trans. Benjamin Moser) (1961)
L'heure de Clarice Lispector by Hélène Cixous (1989)
A Mercy by Toni Morrison (2008)
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (en trans. Ann Goldstein) (2020)
Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter) by Mariama Bâ (1980)
Hotel World by Ali Smith (2001)
Just Kids by Patti Smith (2010)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (en trans. Michael Henry Heim) (1984)
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka (en trans. Philip Boehm, fr trans. Alexandre Vialatte) (1952)
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg (en trans. Jenny McPhee) (1969)
Transit by Rachel Cusk (2016)
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (en trans. Ronald Meyer) (1848)
Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar (1929)
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor (en trans. Sophie Hughes) (2022)
I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston (2022)
Till September Petronella by Jean Rhys
Glittering City by Cyprian Ekwensi (1966)
Family & Borghesia by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Beryl Stockman) (1977)
The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound by Raymond Antrobus (2025)
socials:
tiktok: @sdelphis
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
What I read (and didn’t read) this summer, difficulties of life after cancer, what I might read in September/autumn. I’ve been struggling to read and make videos about reading, so I’m hoping a little chat about what’s been going on might help me.
books:
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (trans. Diana Burgin & Katherine Tiernan O'Connor) (written 1928-40, published 1967, uncensored 1973)
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector (en trans. Benjamin Moser) (1961)
L'heure de Clarice Lispector by Hélène Cixous (1989)
A Mercy by Toni Morrison (2008)
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante (en trans. Ann Goldstein) (2020)
Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter) by Mariama Bâ (1980)
Hotel World by Ali Smith (2001)
Just Kids by Patti Smith (2010)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (en trans. Michael Henry Heim) (1984)
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka (en trans. Philip Boehm, fr trans. Alexandre Vialatte) (1952)
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg (en trans. Jenny McPhee) (1969)
Transit by Rachel Cusk (2016)
White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (en trans. Ronald Meyer) (1848)
Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar (1929)
Paradais by Fernanda Melchor (en trans. Sophie Hughes) (2022)
I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston (2022)
Till September Petronella by Jean Rhys
Glittering City by Cyprian Ekwensi (1966)
Family & Borghesia by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Beryl Stockman) (1977)
The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound by Raymond Antrobus (2025)
socials:
tiktok: @sdelphis
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
