Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Another week reading and fretting with ya girl!
people:
@noorsbookshelf talks about Ordinary Notes : youtube.com/watch?v=bf1h2-gKcy0&t=1671s
@alsopato
@thelefthandedreader6632
books:
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (2018)
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe (2023)
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham (2024)
My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes (1958)
In Love by Alfred Hayes (1953)
The End of Me by Alfred Hayes (1968)
Another week reading and fretting with ya girl!
people:
@noorsbookshelf talks about Ordinary Notes : youtube.com/watch?v=bf1h2-gKcy0&t=1671s
@alsopato
@thelefthandedreader6632
books:
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (2018)
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe (2023)
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham (2024)
My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes (1958)
In Love by Alfred Hayes (1953)
The End of Me by Alfred Hayes (1968)





![May reading wrap-up: weird fiction, memoirs & books on writing
This oneโs 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 Fanโs 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)




