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Making a summer reading plan... that I will ~*try*~ to follow :)
people:
@benjaminjournal
@nina.montagne
@jameskatie
books:
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)
socials:
tiktok: @sdelphis
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
Making a summer reading plan... that I will ~*try*~ to follow :)
people:
@benjaminjournal
@nina.montagne
@jameskatie
books:
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)
socials:
tiktok: @sdelphis
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.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)



![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)
Socials:
Insta (@sdelphis): https://www.instagram.com/sdelphis/?hl=en
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: https://sophiedelphis.substack.com 22 books I read & loved in 2022](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XWrt5gZ8EU8/mqdefault.jpg)





