bibliosophie
Reading #WomenInTranslation
updated
0:24 what's the point of a tbr?
1:39 books:
A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez (trans. Megan McDowell) (September 2024)
Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst (October 2024)
Vivienne by Emmalea Russo (September 2024)
La Force de l'âge (The Prime of Life) by Simone de Beauvoir (1960)
Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter) by Mariama Bâ (1980)
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (1982)
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer (1962)
The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai (trans. George Szirtes, Ottilie Mulzet & John Batki) (2013)
Essays Two by Lydia Davis (2021)
Dune by Frank Herbert (1965)
11:23 announcing a brief hiatus from posting videos -- see you soon[ish] 🖤
socials:
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substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
mentioned:
@thelefthandedreader6632
books:
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector (1969 (French trans. Teresa & Jacques Thiériot) (English trans. Stefan Tobler)
Antigonick by Sophocles/Anne Carson (2012)
Practice by Rosalind Brown (2024)
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
1:32 drinking & sorting
10:11 what did we actually accomplish? how should a home library be? what books am I getting rid of?
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
tag videos:
youtube.com/watch?v=uxUCA-dRZG0&lc=UgyTWyH9DIqkY_P20u14AaABAg.A7Xc8UbFABfA7Xci7N8T32
youtube.com/watch?v=cvGvttefDOo&lc=UgyQ-tx5mcmkvte8ylh4AaABAg.A7XyTtBlWH6A7Y-uEY49po
books:
beauty in concept: A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa (2021)
beauty in an opening line: Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)
beauty in character: The Door by Magda Szabó (1987)
Beauty amidst pain: Pour un tombeau d’Anatole (A Tomb for Anatole) by Stéphane Mallarmé (1961)
beauty in incompleteness: A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector (1978)
beauty in place: Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (1971)
beauty in time: À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust (1913)
beauty in catharsis: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (2019)
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
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
people mentioned:
@AnnNovella
@thelefthandedreader6632
@litwithkat
@SavidgeReads
@jameskatie
@benjaminjournal
@thisisveryannoying
@pastorytime2683
@MatthewSciarappa
@theonlyrealproperty2567
@Slothreadersclub
1:15 books in French:
L'Amour la mer by Pascal Quignard (2022)
Anti-poétique et autres propos sur l'écriture by C. F. Ramuz (2024)
Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes (I Who Have Never Known Men) by Jacqueline Harpman (1995)
Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman (1996)
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 (Miguel Couffon) (1969)
Un apprentissage (Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres / An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures) by Clarice Lispector (trans. Jacques & Teresa Thiérot) (1969)
Passage des heures (from Poemas de Álvaro de Campos) by Fernando Pessoa (trans. Jean-Louis Giovannoni, Isabelle Hourcade, Rémy Hourcade & Fabienne Vallin) (1930)
Le livre de l'intranquilité (Livro do Desassossego / The Book of Disquiet) by Fernando Pessoa (trans. Françoise Laye) (1982)
9:04 books in English:
Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse (trans. Damion Searls) (2004)
Antigonick by Sophocles / Anne Carson (2012)
A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar (2019)
My Work by Olga Ravn (trans. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell) (2020)
Boys Alive by Pier Paolo Pasolini (trans. Tim Parks) (1955)
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer (1962)
Making Space: Women and the Man Made Environment by Matrix (1982)
The Variations by Patrick Langley (2023)
The Long Form by Kate Briggs (2023)
Information Desk: An Epic by Robyn Schiff (2023)
Reenactments: Poems and Translations by Hai-Dang Phan (2019)
Prelude by Brynne Rebele-Henry (2023)
Irl by Tommy Pico (2016)
Her Side of the Story by Alba de Céspedes (trans. Jill Foulston — I misattributed this translation to Ann Goldstein, who translated The Forbidden Notebook) (1952)
The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie (2021)
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
books:
Death by Landscape by Elvia Wilk (2022)
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (trans. Johnny Lorenz) (1949)
A Flat Place by Noreen Masud (2023)
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (trans. Philip Boehm) (1971)
people:
@nathansnook
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
Here's the essay:
sophiedelphis.substack.com/p/look-at-me
Socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
people mentioned:
@benjaminjournal : youtube.com/watch?v=LhN0tiJE9dI
@jameskatie
books:
Vilette by Charlotte Brontë (1853)
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb (trans. Len Rix) (1937)
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (1956)
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964)
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid (1990)
The Seas by Samantha Hunt (2004)
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (trans. Marjam Idriss) (2009)
Liminal by Jordan Tannahill (2018)
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2020)
If Only by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2016)
Boulder by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanchez) (2020)
Lote by Shola von Reinhold (2020)
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan (2021)
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt (2022)
Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson (1986)
Passion simple by Annie Ernaux (1992)
Bluets by Maggie Nelson (2009)
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (2018)
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld (2024)
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
people mentioned:
@RoisinsReading
@nathansnook : youtube.com/watch?v=5bataNedJt4&t=2s
@casskrug : youtube.com/watch?v=dtTfT1aRTaY&t=1090s
@r.enee.morris : youtube.com/watch?v=YK5Mk7Fc9rM&t=16s
books:
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (1971)
Parade by Rachel Cusk (2024)
Second Place by Rachel Cusk (2021)
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
more about Art Monsters:
youtube.com/watch?v=vKMXNLZIVxE&t=805s
more about Is Mother Dead/Martyr!
youtube.com/watch?v=0fY1mwPlsi8
more about Martyr!/Art Monsters/Dictée:
youtube.com/watch?v=ozR-5RZ6iN8&t=8s
more about Say Nothing/Ordinary Notes/My Face for the World to See:
youtube.com/watch?v=d6nqmeZ3vKE&t=735s
more about The Hearing Test:
youtube.com/watch?v=GxeYvk9uNyo&t=23s
books:
My Death by Lisa Tuttle (2004)
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2020)
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)
Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar (2021)
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art, Lauren Elkin (2023)
Dictée, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982)
The Door, Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1987) (reread)
Jazz, Toni Morrison (1992)
A History of Opera: The Last Four Hundred Years, Carolyn Abbate & Roger Parker (2012)
My Face for the World to See, Alfred Hayes (1958)
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe (2018)
Say Translation is Art, Sawako Nakayasu (2020)
Ordinary Notes, Christina Sharpe (2023)
All Fours, Miranda July (2024)
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise, Olivia Laing (2024)
Alphabetical Diaries, Sheila Heti (2024)
A Burst of Light, Audrey Lorde (1988)
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, Danielle Dutton (2024)
Liars, Sarah Manguso (2024)
The Hearing Test, Eliza Barry Callahan (2024)
The Red Tenda of Bologna, John Berger (2007)
Love, Clarice Lispector (trans. Katarina Dodson) (1960)
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
mentions:
The Hearing Test by Eliza Barry Callahan (2024)
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman (1991)
Hanne Darboven: moma.org/artists/1388
"On Longing: The Art of Hanne Darboven" by Bruce Hainley (Artforum): artforum.com/features/on-longing-the-art-of-hanne-darboven-232464
Einstein on the Beach & counting: youtu.be/6XgEwCTXHZU?si=qsTK1AHaOv7z_7OI&t=1556
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
0:44 introducing the bibliosophie book club (bibliosophie.substack.com )
2:20 read smart tag
3:08 what does it mean to get "more out of reading"?
6:13 reading "badly," summarizing, rereading, not finishing books, reading multiple books at once
12:37 annotating
18:16 examples of how I annotate
20:03 creating, making connections, researching, sharing
mentions:
the #readsmart tag co-created by @ProseAndPetticoats & @ToReadersItMayConcern :
youtube.com/watch?v=jqM-MNPyknM&t=59s
youtube.com/watch?v=6OteFU0I0i8&t=1999s
what is reading? : youtube.com/watch?v=ufetELz9-Rg&t=181s
more on annotation : youtube.com/watch?v=9PzaH5Ar7-A
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
people mentioned:
@thelefthandedreader6632
@jameskatie
@benjaminjournal
@nathansnook
books:
Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton (2024)
Liars by Sarah Manguso (out July 23, 2024)
Confabulations by John Berger (2016)
Gates & Fields by Jennifer Firestone (2017)
Modern Nature by Derek Jarman (1991)
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (1971)
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch (1954)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
La force de l'âge (The Prime of Life) by Simone de Beauvoir (1960)
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (1982)
Neapolitan novels no. 3 & 4 by Elena Ferrante (2014, 2015)
The Long Form by Kate Briggs (2023)
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector (1949) (trans. Johnny Lorenz out June 11, 2024) / (La Ville assiégée trans. Jacques & Teresa Thiériot 1991)
Parade by Rachel Cusk (2024)
The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş (out July 9, 2024)
socials:
insta: @sdelphis
storygraph: @sdelphis
substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
book club: bibliosophie.substack.com
Books:
0:57 Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan (1954)
1:53 Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (1956)
3:11 A Room with a View by E. M. Forster (1908)
4:13 Outline by Rachel Cusk (2014)
5:06 Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (2009)
6:18 Que reviennent ceux qui sont loin by Pierre Adrian (2022)
8:13 The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978)
9:29 The Colony by Audrey Magee (2022)
11:09 To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (1927)
12:00 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
13:13 L’étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus (1942)
14:07 The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) (2002)
15:08 A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (1980)
16:16 Whereabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri (2021)
Socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
People:
@benjaminjournal
@katsfieldnotes
@mildrumpus
Books:
The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing (2024)
Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe (2023)
In Love by Alfred Hayes (1953)
My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes (1958)
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children by Jamaica Kincaid & Kara Walker (2024)
All Fours by Miranda July (2024)
Jamaica Kincaid, Kara Walker & Hilton Als in conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=ZRc5oFHnBwQ&t=2134s
Socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
books:
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (2018)
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld (2024)
Le deuxième sexe (The Second Sex) by Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru (2024)
Beyond Eureka!: The Rocky Roads to Innovating by Marylene Delbourg-Delphis (2024): bookshop.org/p/books/beyond-eureka-the-rocky-roads-to-innovating-marylene-delbourg-delphis/20714340?ean=9781647124229
Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings (2024)
An Island by Karen Jennings (2020)
All Fours by Miranda July (2024)
The Material by Camille Bordas (2024)
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (2024)
discussion of Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex: bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b4ts2t
socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
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)
Books:
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin (2016)
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs (2023)
My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes (1958)
Elsewhere:
@katsfieldnotes
watch me do trivia hosted by @TheDiscoKingOfficial : youtube.com/live/jo-KMWKMlpU?si=xb2dXXqdLQQCo6GZ
watch we talk with @RoisinsReading about East of Eden: youtube.com/watch?v=B8uSS4QJKsI
Socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Elizabeth Strout video by @MatthewSciarappa : youtube.com/watch?v=uH0KP95EUh0
Books:
The Long Form by Kate Briggs (2023)
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London by Lauren Elkin (2017)
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin (2023)
Grief is for People: A Memoir by Sloane Crosley (2024)
Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh (June 2024)
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (August 2024)
The Observable Universe: An Investigation by Heather McCalden (2024)
Socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
people:
@nathansnook
@hipanna2773
@katsfieldnotes
books:
La femme rompue (The Woman Destroyed) by Simone de Beauvoir (1967)
The Door by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1987)
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham (2024)
Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)
socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)
Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982)
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin (2023)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
Pour une morale de l’ambiguïté by Simone de Beauvoir (1947)
Le Tartuffe by Molière (1664)
21 Poems (2017/1930) & other poems of George Oppen
poems of Mahmoud Darwish
“Dark Days” (1980) & others essays of James Baldwin
La règle du jeu dir. by Jean Renoir (1939)
Phantom Thread dir. by Paul Thomas Anderson (2017)
All of Us Strangers dir. by Andrew Haigh (2023)
Debussy String Quartet, op. 10 (1893) performed by Emerson Quartet
Bartók String Quartet no. 4, mvt. 3 (1928) performed by Takács Quartet
“And So” (Evergreen) by Caroline Shaw (2018) performed by Caroline Shaw + Attacca Quartet
The New Sound Meditation by Pauline Oliveros (1988)
Dictée & East of Eden previously: youtube.com/watch?v=N99ZVyt7MaQ&t=76s
Martyr! previously: youtube.com/watch?v=0fY1mwPlsi8
Art Monsters previously: youtube.com/watch?v=vKMXNLZIVxE&t=89s
Socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
people mentioned:
@jameskatie
@nathansnook
books & authors:
the Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante (2012-15)
the seasonal quartet by Ali Smith (2016-20)
A Tale of Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison (2019)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
Pour une morale de l’ambiguïté (The Ethics of Ambiguity) by Simone de Beauvoir (1947)
Everybody by Olivia Laing (2020)
On Freedom by Maggie Nelson (2021)
the Iliad & the Odyssey by Homer (8th c. BCE)
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
Motherhood by Sheila Heti (2018)
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (1973)
The Biography of X by Catherine Lacey (2023)
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles (2009)
other videos:
my top ten books: youtu.be/vqNEP0FvMkI?si=V6NYtpw6SRznUxCJ
q & a pt. 1: youtu.be/GvZvh-40dxM?si=APBrQLP0p3A-fFvB
original tag video: youtube.com/watch?v=fM7AnXgxtVE
How many books in a series is too many?
Cliffhangers yes or no?
Hard back or paper back?
Favourite book?
Least favourite book?
Love triangles yes or no?
A book you couldn’t finish?
Current read?
Last book you recommended to someone?
Oldest book you’ve read?
Newest book you’ve read?
Favourite author?
Buying or borrowing books?
A book everyone liked and you didn’t?
Book mark or dog ear?
Book you’ve re-read the most?
Music while reading?
One or multiple pov?
One sitting or multiple days?
Book you read because of the cover?
socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Books:
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
Dictée by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982)
Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté (The Ethics of Ambiguity) by Simone de Beauvoir (1947)
La femme rompue (The Woman Destroyed) by Simone de Beauvoir (1967)
Socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
1:40 Of Woman Born
2:12 Is Mother Dead in progress
9:02 wrapping up Is Mother Dead
11:19 wrapping up Of Woman Born
14:34 Martyr! in progress
18:20 legacies
Books:
Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (trans. Charlotte Barslund) (2020)
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich (1976)
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024)
Mentions:
@MatthewSciarappa
talking about Of Woman Born previously: youtube.com/watch?v=Hgnp6XASMp4&t=49s
Socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
I’m a little late to this train, but so be it — there are still eleven months left in the year to get to these…
Books:
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal (1830)
I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki (1905)
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905)
Antigone by Jean Anouilh (1944)
East of Eden by John Steinbeck (1952)
Another Country by James Baldwin (1962)
The Promised Land by Grace Ogot (1966)
Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter) by Mariama Bâ (1980)
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa (1982)
People:
@yenasung
@RoisinsReading
Socials:
Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Books:
On Freedom by Maggie Nelson (2021)
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin (2023)
Le deuxième sexe (The Second Sex) by Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
Socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
0:49 La vengeance m’appartient
2:15 Blueberries
3:18 Seduction
4:28 book haul
10:45 La vengeance m’appartient
15:16 People Collide
People:
@Grandpasbookclub
@nathansnook
@hannahmay11
@yenasung
Books:
La vengeance m’appartient (Vengeance is Mine) by Marie NDiaye (2021)
Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding by Ellena Savage (2020)
Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood by Karina Longworth (2018)
People Collide by Isle McElroy (2023)
The Atmospherians by Isle McElroy (2021)
L’amie prodigieuse I-IV (Neapolitan quartet) by Elena Ferrante (trans. Elsa Damien)
Des âmes simples by Pierre Adrian (2017)
Le deuxième sexe (The Second Sex) by Simone de Beauvoir (1949)
Corps et biens by Robert Desnos (1930)
L’écharpe rouge (The Red Scarf) by Yves Bonnefoy (2016)
Aujourd’hui by Blaise Cendrars (1931)
Pas dormir (Sleepless: A Memoir of Insomnia) by Marie Darrieussecq (2021)
Socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
0:54 Of Woman Born
5:40 Kick the Latch
10:48 My Death
14:00 productivity crisis / My Death
16:50 Of Woman Born
People:
@benjaminjournal
@kiranreader
@thelefthandedreader6632
Books:
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich (1976)
Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan (2022)
My Death by Lisa Tuttle (2004)
Socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
I finished 128 books in 2023. You can find the complete list here: sophiedelphis.substack.com/p/the-books-i-read-in-2023?r=dy3wj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Authors mentioned:
James Baldwin
Elena Ferrante
Toni Morrison
Clarice Lispector
Natalia Ginzburg
Simone de Beauvoir
Socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
01:00 Fiction:
Quicksand by Nella Larsen (1928)
Permafrost by Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2018)
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga (2022)
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (1974)
I’m a Fan by Sheena Patel (2022)
Katalin Street by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1969)
Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel (trans. Rosalind Harvey) (2020)
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idra Novey) (1964)
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (2023)
Que reviennent ceux qui sont loin by Pierre Adrian (2022)
13:23 Nonfiction:
Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose (2017)
Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai (2005)
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz (1991)
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) (2021)
Passion simple (Simple Passion) by Annie Ernaux (1992)
A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain (2022)
Death by Landscape by Elvia Wilk (2022)
Le piccole virtú (The Little Virtues) by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Dick Davis) (1962)
This Little Art by Kate Briggs (2018)
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib (2017)
Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction by Brian Dillon (2017)
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation ed. by Jeremy Tiang and Kavita Bhanot (2022)
Socials:
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People:
@AnaWallaceJohnson 5 favorite used bookstores: youtube.com/watch?v=K5ID6106jXI
@benreadsgood
“what’s in my bag” video with @yenasung : youtube.com/watch?v=zY6ifMDWFE4&t=22s
@pastorytime2683
@batumanslittleidiot
@nathansnook
Places & things:
Unnameable Books, Brooklyn
Housing Works Crosby St, Manhattan
192 Books, Manhattan
Bookthug Nation, Brooklyn
Troubled Sleep, Brooklyn
my favorite books set in NY: youtube.com/watch?v=6fUQtwuw45g&t=2s
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing (2017)
the plays of Molière (1622-1673)
The Color of of Pomegranates dir. Sergei Parajanov (1969)
Mon Oncle dir. by Jacques Tati (1958)
Psycho dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
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People:
@kailienatsu
@claaaaaara
Books:
Stoner by John Williams (1965)
Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon (2023)
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation ed. by Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang (2022)
Ficciones (Fictions) by Jorge Luis Borges (1944)
Shifting the Silence by Etel Adnan (2020)
Socials:
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people:
@AnnNovella recommended Szerb
@litwithkat made me want to read Dolan: youtube.com/watch?v=ZrzL7eP6-0w
@kailienatsu made me want to read Adnan: youtube.com/watch?v=ER0mpqwFDX0&t=10s
books:
Pond, Claire-Louise Bennett (2015)
L’Heure de l’étoile, Clarice Lispector (trans. Marguerite Wünscher) (1977) (reread)
Journey by Moonlight, Antal Szerb (trans. Len Rix) (1937)
Un chien à ma table, Claudie Hunzinger (2022)
I Fear My Pain Interests You, Stephanie LaCava (2022)
Que reviennent ceux qui sont loin, Pierre Adrian (2022)
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between, Joseph Osmundson (2023)
Affinities: On Art and Fascination, Brian Dillon (2023)
Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan (2020)
A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa (2021) (reread)
Shifting the Silence, Etel Adnan (2020)
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People & books mentioned:
The Metamorphoses by Ovid (8 CE)
the poems of Catullus
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (1984)
Katalin Street by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1969)
Love by Toni Morrison (2003)
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib (2017)
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1912)
Gustave Flaubert
Honoré de Balzac
Marcel Proust
Albert Camus
Simone de Beauvoir
Frantz Fanon
Jacques Derrida
Michel Foucault
Roland Barthes
Julia Kristeva
Apollonaire
Stéphane Mallarmé
Charles Baudelaire
Louise de Vilmorin
Marie Ndiaye
Chloé Delaume
Cécile Coulon
Léonora Miano
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Previously in the series "Nathan & Sophie talk about Clarice": youtube.com/watch?v=S83AYaS_GaQ
Lispector’s novels:
Perto do Coração Selvagem (1943) —
Near to the Wild Heart (trans. 1990 by Giovanni Pontiero; 2012 by Alison Entrekin)
O Lustre (1946) —
The Chandelier (1946) (trans. 2018 by Benjamin Moser and Magdalena Edwards)
A Cidade Sitiada (1949) —
The Besieged City (trans. 2019 by Johnny Lorenz)
A Maçã no Escuro (1961) —
The Apple in the Dark (trans. 1967 by Gregory Rabass; 2023 by Benjamin Moser)
A Paixão Segundo G.H. (1964) —
The Passion According to G.H. (trans. 1988 by Ronald Sousa and 2012 by Idra Novey)
Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres (1969) —
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (trans. 1986 by Richard A. Mazzara and Lorri A. Parris; 2021 by Stefan Tobler)
Água viva (1973) —
Água viva (trans. 1978 by Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz as The Stream of Life; 2012 by Stefan Tobler)
A Hora da Estrela (1977) —
The Hour of the Star (trans. 1992 by Giovanni Pontiero; 2011 by Benjamin Moser)
L'Heure de l'étoile (trans. 1985 Marguerite Wünscher)
Um Sopro de Vida (Pulsações) (1978) —
A Breath of Life (trans. 2012 by Johnny Lorenz)
Un souffle de vie (trans. 1998 Teresa Thiériot
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Mentioned:
@AnnNovella
Books:
L’Heure de l’étoile (The Hour of the Star) by Clarice Lispector (trans. Marguerite Wünscher) (1977)
Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon (2023)
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb (trans. Len Rix) (1937)
Un chien à ma table by Claudie Hunzinger (2022)
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between by Joseph Osmundson (2022)
I Fear My Pain Interests You by Stephanie LaCava (2022)
Socials:
Insta: @sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
Plus, unrelatedly, an announcement: I’m planning to do a Q&A soon, so ask what you’d like to know about me 🖤
Books:
Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser (2009)
Stoner by John Williams (1965)
Day by Michael Cunningham (2023)
Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between by Joseph Osmundson (2022)
Kurt Weill en France by Alain Jomy (2023)
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative by Peter Brooks (2022)
People:
@nathansnook
@MatthewSciarappa
Original tag video by @ArielBissett : youtu.be/wlKiCFTVmXI?si=oB0iLiowkoI82OpD
1. Are there any books you started this year and need to finish?
2. Do you have any autumnal books to transition to the end of the year?
3. Is there a new release that you are still waiting for?
4. Three books you want to read by the end of the year?
5. Are there any books that could shock you and be your favorite book of the year?
6. Have you started making reading plans for next year yet?
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Books:
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib (2017)
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)
Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton (1973)
Babel: An Arcane History by R. F. Kuang (2022)
The Fawn by Magda Szabó (trans. Len Rix) (1959)
Affinities: On Art and Fascination by Brian Dillon (2023)
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (trans. Marjam Idriss) (2009)
Death by Landscape by Elvia Wilk (2022)
Socials:
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People/videos:
@pastorytime2683
@jameskatie
@pleasuresofthetext on Doris Lessing: youtube.com/watch?v=yoqdsWs4ATc
my previous vlog: youtube.com/watch?v=AoGyjcv4Gi4
Books:
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Frances Frenaye) (1947)
Weird Fucks by Lynne Tillman (1990)
Exercices de style by Raymond Queneau (1947)
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idea Novey) (1964)
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler) (1973)
In the Act by Rachel Ingalls (1987)
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley (2015)
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (2023)
This Little Art by Kate Briggs (2018)
The Golden Notebooks by Doris Lessing (1962)
Socials:
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Mentioned:
@ivanainthecity
Books:
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au (2022)
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine (2014)
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (2011)
The Coming Bad Days by Sarah Bernstein (2021)
Vilette by Charlotte Brontë (1853)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
Mrs. March by Virginia Feito (2021)
Howards End by E. M. Forster (1910)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
Pour un tombeau d'Anatole (For Anatole's Tomb) by Stéphane Mallrmé (1961, pub. posthumously)
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (2020)
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (1957)
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver (2016)
stories by Edgar Allen Poe
Autumn by Ali Smith (2016)
On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2005)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (2009)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (1948)
Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton (1973)
Letters from Maine by May Sarton (1984)
Un chien à ma table by Claudie Hunzinger (2022)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1974)
Three Streets by Yoko Tawada (trans. Margaret Mitsutani) (2022)
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Books:
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley (2015)
Babel, of the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang (2022)
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idra Novey) (1964)
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler) (1973)
In the Act by Rachel Ingalls (1987)
This Little Art by Kate Briggs (2017)
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein (2023)
People/newsletters:
Delphic Sophistry (me): sophiedelphis.substack.com
@KDbooks Dank Academia: kdbooks.substack.com
@nathansnook nookish notes: nookishnotes.beehiiv.com
@kiranreader Zafarnama: kirangill.beehiiv.com
@r.enee.morris
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Videos mentioned:
August poetry: youtu.be/0djuueRWU98?si=6hhZseRWskw37aY5
Jaeggy/Ginzburg/Thomas/Taylor: youtu.be/hgHAOJrOHGM?si=-7w6z-N1ynmGc2FA
People:
@cs0p
@hannahmay11
@nathansnook
Books:
Fille d'Amanitore & Et que mon règne arrive by Léonora Miano (2023)
Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett (2021)
The Story of a New Name / Storia del nuovo cognome by Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein) (2012)
Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction by Brian Dillon (2017)
Love by Toni Morrison (2003)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (trans. H. T. Lowe-Porter / John E. Woods) (1924)
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (trans. Tim Parks) (1989)
Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes (trans. Ann Goldstein) (1952)
Journal de nage, Chantal Thomas (2022)
The Little Virtues / Le piccole virtú by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Dick Davis) (1962)
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor (2023)
The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi (2023)
The Guest by Emma Cline (2023)
The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles (2009)
Revenge of the Scapegoat by Caren Beilin (2022)
Socials:
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People:
@pastorytime2683
@r.enee.morris
Books:
Une gourmandise (Gourmet Rhapsody) by Muriel Barbery
Assembly by Natasha Brown
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
Gigi by Colette
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Une femme (A Woman’s Story) by Annie Ernaux
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein)
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (trans. Tim Parks)
Passing by Nella Larsen
Quicksand by Nella Larsen
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler)
Bartleby by Herman Melville
Sula by Toni Morrison
Recitatif by Toni Morrison
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Friends and Relations by Elizabeth Bowen
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Frances Frenaye)
The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idra Novey)
Exercises de style by Raymond Queneau
Birds of America by Lottie Moore
Tenth of December by George Saunders
How to Loiter in a Turf War by Coco Solid
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00:01:19 first check-in (2 weeks)
00:10:34 second check-in (3 weeks)
00:14:32 last check-in (4 weeks)
00:16:48 all the books
People:
@MatthewSciarappa
@nathansnook
@dinaklarisse
Books:
1. Muscle Memory, Jenny Liou (2022)
2. Les Ronces, Cécile Coulon (2018)
3. Soft Science, Franny Choi (2019)
4. On Earth, Robert Creeley (2006)
5. What Silence Equals, Tory Dent (1993)
6. Elegies, Muriel Rukeyser (1949)
7. Some Changes, June Jordan (1971)
8. Letters from Maine, May Sarton (1984)
9. Skin of Nocturnal Apple, Misha Honcharenko (2023)
10. Please, Jericho Brown (2008)
11. Débarcadères, Jules Supervielle (1966)
12. Pleasure, Angelo Nikolopoulos (2022)
13. Beasts at Every Threshold, Natalie Wee (2022)
14. Rendang, Will Harris (2020)
15. Blue in Green, Chiyuma Elliott (2021)
16. Quiet, Victoria Adukwei Bulley (2022)
17. To Stay Alive, Denise Levertov (1971)
18. Normal Distance, Elisa Gabbert (2022)
19. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, John Ashbery (1975)
20. Junk, Tommy Pico (2018)
21. The Sonnets, Ted Berrigan (1964)
22. Singularities, Susan Howe (1990)
23. Tanya, Brenda Shaughnessy (2023)
24. After Lorca, Jack Spicer (1957)
25. Handspun Rosaries, Dina Klarisse (2022)
26. Meditations in an Emergency, Frank O’Hara (1957)
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People:
@benreadsgood : youtube.com/watch?v=6xbb6IKUz24
@RoisinsReading
Books:
3:56 Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (2021)
4:56 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
6:30 The good soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek (1921)
7:07 Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1872)
7:51 Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
8:35 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013)
9:40 Ulysses by James Joyce (1922)
11:00 The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (2013)
11:52 Middlemarch by George Eliot (1871)
12:55 La Vérité sur l’Affaire Harry Quebert by Joël Dicker (2012)
13:53 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
14:34 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2004)
16:34 The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1879)
18:34 Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (2006)
19:31 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1996)
21:45 War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
23:10 why read long books & how I approach doing so
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Books:
Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (trans. Tim Parks) (1989)
Journal de nage by Chantal Thomas (2022)
The Little Virtues / Le piccole virtú by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Dick Davis) (1962)
Le je-ne-sais-quoi et le presque-rien by Vladimir Jankélévitch (1980)
The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor (2023)
Socials:
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