bibliosophie | May reading wrap-up: weird fiction, memoirs & books on writing @bibliosophie | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
This one’s long, folks: I finished a lot of books in May, and I have a lot of thoughts and [good] feelings about them. Come along as I try to articulate them.
People/videos mentioned:
@rebareads talks about New Weird: youtu.be/wLUi6kUKfiA
@pagesofcarolyn talks about the Southern Reach Trilogy: youtu.be/ER7wWzKOLh0
chronology of the Southern Reach Trilogy by @JennieChen : youtu.be/L7X9j4krRQ4
_goldenhourbooks : instagram.com/_goldenhourbooks?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
@nathansnook
@MatthewSciarappa
reading The Goodby People & The Shards: youtu.be/P-0J5FDkfVE
Books:
2:25 Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2012)
5:03 The Goodby People by Gavin Lambert (1971)
6:09 The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (2023)
7:32 The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer (2014):
1. Authority
2. Annihilation
3. Acceptance
13:00 Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks (1953)
14:30 The Woman Who Killed the Fish by Clarice Lispector (1966)
17:36 Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (1994)
21:40 I Remember by Joe Brainard (2001)
23:40 Passion simple (Simple Passion) by Annie Ernaux (1992)
27:34 Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer (2023)
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century edited by Jenny Minton Quigley (2021)
34:10 In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) (2021)
36:15 The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson (2020)
39:45 A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector (trans. Johnny Lorenz) (1978)
Socials:
Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
This one’s long, folks: I finished a lot of books in May, and I have a lot of thoughts and [good] feelings about them. Come along as I try to articulate them.
People/videos mentioned:
@rebareads talks about New Weird: youtu.be/wLUi6kUKfiA
@pagesofcarolyn talks about the Southern Reach Trilogy: youtu.be/ER7wWzKOLh0
chronology of the Southern Reach Trilogy by @JennieChen : youtu.be/L7X9j4krRQ4
_goldenhourbooks : instagram.com/_goldenhourbooks?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
@nathansnook
@MatthewSciarappa
reading The Goodby People & The Shards: youtu.be/P-0J5FDkfVE
Books:
2:25 Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2012)
5:03 The Goodby People by Gavin Lambert (1971)
6:09 The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (2023)
7:32 The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer (2014):
1. Authority
2. Annihilation
3. Acceptance
13:00 Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks (1953)
14:30 The Woman Who Killed the Fish by Clarice Lispector (1966)
17:36 Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (1994)
21:40 I Remember by Joe Brainard (2001)
23:40 Passion simple (Simple Passion) by Annie Ernaux (1992)
27:34 Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer (2023)
Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century edited by Jenny Minton Quigley (2021)
34:10 In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) (2021)
36:15 The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson (2020)
39:45 A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector (trans. Johnny Lorenz) (1978)
Socials:
Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
