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the "week in my life" format is back! a busy week of emotional ups and downs, getting back into reading for myself, rehearsals and dissertation work
books:
How to be both by Ali Smith (2014)
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad (2021)
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag (1978)
Bread of Angels by Patti Smith (out Nov. 2025)
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han (trans. Daniel Steuer) (2024)
socials:
tiktok: @sdelphis
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
the "week in my life" format is back! a busy week of emotional ups and downs, getting back into reading for myself, rehearsals and dissertation work
books:
How to be both by Ali Smith (2014)
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad (2021)
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag (1978)
Bread of Angels by Patti Smith (out Nov. 2025)
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han (trans. Daniel Steuer) (2024)
socials:
tiktok: @sdelphis
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com

![May reading wrap-up: weird fiction, memoirs & books on writing
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: https://youtu.be/wLUi6kUKfiA
@pagesofcarolyn talks about the Southern Reach Trilogy: https://youtu.be/ER7wWzKOLh0
chronology of the Southern Reach Trilogy by @JennieChen : https://youtu.be/L7X9j4krRQ4
_goldenhourbooks : https://instagram.com/_goldenhourbooks?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA
@nathansnook
@MatthewSciarappa
reading The Goodby People & The Shards: https://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): https://www.instagram.com/sdelphis/
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: https://sophiedelphis.substack.com May reading wrap-up: weird fiction, memoirs & books on writing](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fkCtnYQ1kLs/mqdefault.jpg)








