Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I went on a brief sunny vacation in the Caribbean! I read [a little]! I got some new books!

books:
Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing by Polly Barton (2022)
The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector (trans. Benjamin Moser & Magdalena Edwards) (1946)
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (trans. Katrina Dodson)
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters (2025)
Universality by Natasha Brown (2025)
Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu (trans. Sean Cotter) (2015)
The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem (trans. Sinan Antoon) (2019)
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (1970)
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (trans. Angela Rodel) (2020)
Les Mandarins (The Mandarins) by Simone de Beauvoir (1954)
L'heure de Clarice Lispector (The Hour of Clarice Lispector) by Hélène Cixous (1989)
Le Livre de Promethea (The book of Promethea) by Hélène Cixous (1983)
Domaine Musical: Écrits d’Alban Berg (1957)
Eine Lehre oder Das Buch der Lüste (An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures) by Clarice Lispector (trans. Sarita Brandt) (1969)
Soleil du soleil: Anthologie du sonnet français de Marot à Malherbe ed. by Jacques Roubaud
Mitsou: Forty Images by Balthus, preface by Rainer Maria Rilke (1921)

other mentions:
a reading life by Petya K. Grady: petya.substack.com
my most recent reading diary: bibliosophie.substack.com/p/march-reading-diary-no-1

socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com