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The return of the week-long vlog! In this week's episode: a few days in Iceland and reading books written in French, Brazilian Portuguese and Catalan
books:
Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman (1996)
The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright (2023
Le mur invisible (Die Wand / The Wall) by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Liselotte Bodo & Jacqueline Chambon) (1963)
Dans la mansarde (Die Mansarde / The Loft) by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Miguel Couffon) (1969)
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (trans. Johnny Lorenz) (1949)
Mammoth by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2024)
Permafrost by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2018)
Boulder by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanchez) (2020)
mentioned:
@nathansnook
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
The return of the week-long vlog! In this week's episode: a few days in Iceland and reading books written in French, Brazilian Portuguese and Catalan
books:
Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman (1996)
The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright (2023
Le mur invisible (Die Wand / The Wall) by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Liselotte Bodo & Jacqueline Chambon) (1963)
Dans la mansarde (Die Mansarde / The Loft) by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Miguel Couffon) (1969)
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (trans. Johnny Lorenz) (1949)
Mammoth by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2024)
Permafrost by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2018)
Boulder by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanchez) (2020)
mentioned:
@nathansnook
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com



![the best books I read in 2024
My favorite books of the year, lets go!
1:42 backlist fiction:
My Death by Lisa Tuttle (2004)
Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)
Moi qui nai pas connu les hommes by Jacqueline Harpman (1995)
— I Who Have Never Known Men (trans. Ros Schwartz)
Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman (1996)
— Orlanda (trans. Ros Schwartz)
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (trans. Philip Boehm) (1971)
Le mur invisible by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Liselotte Bodo & Jacqueline Chambon) (1963)
— The Wall by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Shaun Whiteside) (1963)
Le Livre de lintranquillité by Fernando Pessoa (trans. Françoise Laye) (1982)
— The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (trans. Richard Zenith) (1982)
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt (2000)
9:09 new fiction releases in English:
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)
All Fours by Miranda July (2024)
Liars by Sarah Manguso (2024)
12:45 new[ish] translated fiction:
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2020)
The Details by Ia Genberg (trans. Kira Josefsson) (2022)
Mammoth by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2023)
My Work by Olga Ravn (trans. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell) (2020)
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (2022)
19:00 poetry:
Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982)
Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff (2023)
Stay, Illusion: Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido (2013)
21:05 nonfiction:
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin (2023)
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (2018)
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe (2023)
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton (2024)
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy by Mark Doty (2001)
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: https://sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: https://bibliosophie.substack.com the best books I read in 2024](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NCcEq-85OT4/mqdefault.jpg)
![October reading wrap-up
Lotsa [pretty short] goodies in the past month, mes petits choux: essay collections about reading & writing, Italian fiction, two different sea-related novels about loss with magical/horror elements, mother-child relationships...
Books:
Love Me Tender by Constance Debré (2020)
Cold Enough for Snow, Jessica Au (2022)
Five Tuesdays in Winter, Lily King (2021)
Translating Myself and Others, Jhumpa Lahiri (2022)
Body Work, Melissa Febos (2022)
How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo (2022)
Palomar, Italo Calvino (1983)
Our Wives under the Sea, Julia Armfield (2022)
Oh, to Be a Painter!, Virginia Woolf (2021)
Upstream: Selected Essays, Mary Oliver (2016)
L’amore molesto, Elena Ferrante (1992)
The Seas, Samantha Hunt (2004)
Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid (1990)
People:
@CJReads
@literaryiggy
Socials:
Insta (@sdelphis): https://www.instagram.com/sdelphis/
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: https://sophiedelphis.substack.com October reading wrap-up](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NGfi4XdEkfA/mqdefault.jpg)





