Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
New French releases! Library goodies! Gifts! Buddy reads!
Books:
Notre si chère vieille dame auteur by Anne Serre (2022)
Un chien à ma table by Claudie Hunzinger (2022)
Performance by Simon Liberati (2022)
Vivre vite by Brigitte Giraud (2022)
La vie clandestine by Monica Sabolo (2022)
Que reviennent ceux qui sont loin by Pierre Adrian (2022)
Écrire la vie: Collection Quarto (Gallimard) by Annie Ernaux (2011)
Instants/Augenblicke ed. by Claudine Delphis (1991)
Plaisir poétique et plaisir musculaire : Essai sur l’évolution des techniques poétiques by André Spire (1949)
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti (2022)
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh (2022)
New Names for Lost Things by Noor Unnahar (2021)
Magnolia, 木蘭, Nina Mingya Powles (2020)
Permafrost by Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2017)
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante (trans. Anne Goldstein) (2021)
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler) (1973)
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idea Novey) (1964)
Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker (1962)
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (2016)
Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (1994)
People:
Pierre Adrian on @LibrairieMollatBordeaux : youtu.be/Teju0A03ZDc
@seesararead
@jameskatie
@nathansnook
@benjaminjournal
Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
New French releases! Library goodies! Gifts! Buddy reads!
Books:
Notre si chère vieille dame auteur by Anne Serre (2022)
Un chien à ma table by Claudie Hunzinger (2022)
Performance by Simon Liberati (2022)
Vivre vite by Brigitte Giraud (2022)
La vie clandestine by Monica Sabolo (2022)
Que reviennent ceux qui sont loin by Pierre Adrian (2022)
Écrire la vie: Collection Quarto (Gallimard) by Annie Ernaux (2011)
Instants/Augenblicke ed. by Claudine Delphis (1991)
Plaisir poétique et plaisir musculaire : Essai sur l’évolution des techniques poétiques by André Spire (1949)
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti (2022)
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh (2022)
New Names for Lost Things by Noor Unnahar (2021)
Magnolia, 木蘭, Nina Mingya Powles (2020)
Permafrost by Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2017)
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante (trans. Anne Goldstein) (2021)
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler) (1973)
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idea Novey) (1964)
Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker (1962)
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (2016)
Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (1994)
People:
Pierre Adrian on @LibrairieMollatBordeaux : youtu.be/Teju0A03ZDc
@seesararead
@jameskatie
@nathansnook
@benjaminjournal
Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com








![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:
Insta (@sdelphis): https://www.instagram.com/sdelphis/?hl=en
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: https://sophiedelphis.substack.com Reading vlog: DNFs in 2022 so far & climbing out of a reading slump](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UPcabCUaGwM/mqdefault.jpg)

