orlanda has been on my tbr ever since i read orlando - i didn’t realize it was written by the author of i who have never known men!! need to get my hands on copies of both of those books. “in my ravenous state i am overwhelmed” FELT this big time 😭
Just popping by again very quickly because what you said about thinking "too much" about BookTube really resonated with me, and I've been thinking about it for the last several days. Your words encouraged me to understand my own ambivalence about BookTubing a bit better. Sending warm regards, Eleanor x
Ah the well intentioned TBR! I know her well! I have an ever changing list of books that I want to read this fall but I see Lispector (for your book club) and Brandon Taylor in my near future. Also seeing the new Mariana Enriquez book reminds me that I still haven’t read her others even though I’ve wanted to. Interested to hear what you think about her new one if you read and so so curious about your thoughts on Dune! Enjoy your hiatus!!
i love blue eyesahdow so much!! i really enjoyed the pumpkin eater, i hope you enjoy it if u get to it this season. also, enjoy your youtube sabbatical!!!!!!!
i don’t whip out this blue shadow so often, but i really do love it! pumpkin eater started to grow on me. i still haven’t finished it… might today to try to close off september with it?
Will look forward to hearing how you like The Pumpkin Eater. I've also read her Daddy's Gone A-Hunting. They cover similar territory but I enjoyed both very much.
so i actually read about 40 pages on sunday and wasn’t really really into it. i think it may have been my mood at the time, but i found it sort of tiring. i’ll definitely continue reading, however
I think you will like Pessoa! And Mariana Enriquez is a great Argentinian writer. Haven't read that last book, but she has some really good short stories like Things we lost in the fire. Also the novel that you mentioned is great too, she uses terror to talk about the Argentinian dictatorship (and a lot of other things). Hope you have a nice break from RU-vid ☺
@@camicarreno i first encountered enriquez thru things we lost in the fire - i never read it bc of my aversion to short stories. but i know she’s really well liked, so i think it’s time i finally read her. i definitely think i will like the pessoa! i like his poetry
I love making tbr lists even if I have no intention of reading all the books! I think of it as a moodboard for the season ahead 😅 Some of the new releases sound really interesting. Hope you enjoy your booktube break 😊
@@Sarahsreadingjournal ya, even if i don’t quite stick to my lists, it’s exciting to make plans. it’s almost like rediscovering books again :) and thank you!
I don’t even wanna think about the books I feel bad about for constantly thinking about why im not reading them yet. Ha. Hope you have a gloriously resetting autumnal season. 🌰
it's a constant (self-inflicted and unnecessary) nagging little struggle, isn't it? but hey, if that's what's keeping me up at night, i'm surely blessed thank you! 🐿
The Pumpkin Eater is one i totally keep forgetting to do for fall and when the season comes around, i am always without it!...this has been going on for almost a decade now.. and DUNE?! in her sci fi era?? imagine if bibliosophie ventured into the scifi/fantasy realm of booktube 👀👀👀
@@nathansnook i read about 40 pages of pumpkin eater on sunday and didn’t love it tbh… perhaps i wasn’t in the mood for its brand of weird/dark/detached
@@nathansnook believe it or not i do actually like sci-fi! fantasy mostly annoys me, partially bc i don’t like historical novels, and so much white fantasy is just kinda european history with magic. (i admit i know the genre poorly, so perhaps that’s reductive and untrue)
@@ChanelChapters i started more in earnest last night, and i’m getting on well with it for now! you have to like plot, but so far my very early review is positive
it depends on your definition of passive: we’re always doing something, sure, but there can be a relative passivity to how we take in books, both negative and positive
I hope you do get to the Pessoa as I think you will love it - but as it isn’t a continuous text a great approach might be to just do 5 pages a day till the end of the year. I did that a few years ago and it meant that I thought all day about the few pages I had read, and meanwhile I could read some of the other books I wanted to get to. Have a lovely autumn.
Autumn reading for me will be a buddy-read, starting as soon as my friend gets her copy, of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young. A very chunky book that should keep us both going for a few months at least!
@@NeilBruder i don’t know the novel at all! a cursory google tells me it’s one of the longest novels written, so i reckon that will indeed keep you busy for a while!
Interesting TBR. I am also a mood reader but i still have some books that I want to read soon. Enter the ghost by Isabella Hammad. Walking through fire the autobiography of Nawal El Saadawi, and On earth we're briefly gorgeous by Ocean Vuong...
If you recall I unsuccessfully recommended some audio books to you in a previous video (for two of George Saunders books) so I'm interested to see how you get on with the Dune audiobook. I hated it! If I recall it's multiple voice actors some of whom read in a cartoony way that was very irritating. Haha, I hope you have a better time with it than I did! 😄
@@NeilBruder ha yes, i definitely thought of you when talking about my audiobook preferences. it is indeed multiple voice actors - i don’t find anyone irritating in particular, but i would just prefer the narrator to read all the dialogue. i’m surprised you hated it if you don’t mind multiple voice actors, but then again i have only encountered a few of the characters so far, so perhaps the reason will be clear to me later :)
@@bibliosophie I’m fine with multiple voice actors it’s the performances that were some of the worst I’ve encountered. Like cheap Saturday morning cartoons from my childhood… haha. Very likely there are different editions of the audiobook and you might have a higher quality one than I tried.
Sontag, Lorde and Laing are on my autumn tbr but that's it. I think there might be some Lispector on there too but that depends on how quick the holds go. That's the downside of the library system of a big city. The holds are wild and long but it's an exercise in patience)
@@wiskerlikestoread4594 ah yes the peculiar stresses and delights of being beholden to a holds list! sounds like a magnificent tbr to me - which sontag, lorde and laing?
@@bibliosophie on women by sontag ( finished it two nights ago when i couldn't sleep it was middle of the road for me. I think her works on art are much stronger to me.) everybody by olivia laing ( finished it last night. It was fine to me but I think I went into it expecting it to blow me away like the lonely city did) sister outsider is my next read after i finish the hearing trumpet. it's my second or third reread of the collection and I find myself coming back to the uses of the erotic again and again. and i might add some lispector short stories since I just impulse bought that ebook.
I’ve pulled up my library website to immediately look for Vivienne. 🏃♀️🏃♀️🏃♀️. it’s on order and I now have a hold. I’m laughing along with you about classics I want to read video because I haven’t really made a dent in mine either. 🥹.
lovely video as always sophie 🫶🏻 pls don’t worry about talking about the same books on your tbr lists, I think that’s super normal and relatable. I can only imagine that making youtube content adds more pressure to your reading habits but you don’t owe us constant newness for your sanity!! I like watching your videos almost as you are my friend (I hope that doesn’t sound creepy sorry) and not as a machine content creator. That being said I have nothing against RU-vid creators in the book community that read 200 books in a year and upload a video every week, if they have the time for that and can manage it without burning out. wish you all the best and feel free to take some time without feeling guilty, we will be waiting 🫡✨
The entree: Sophie flaunting her Black Swan ballerina aesthetics with blue mascara. Side dish: chunky fall reading material to your utmost liking Beverages: agua to gulp down Simone de Beauvoir, soft as silken Dior Passe une bonne journée!🏁
book of disquet is also on my TBR for this autumn 🤍 I read it in English, but now it's translated in my native language. can't wait to dig deep in his thoughts!
what a lovely tranquil little vlog <3 the clips of the music and your singing are just amazing!! excited to hear more of your thoughts on the book of pleasures :-)
thank you! i was on such a roll with an apprenticeship at the beginning of the month and now have completely fallen off for various unforeseen reasons. the good news is that lispector will be waiting for me once i have the brain space to return to her :)
Oooh I love hearing about your annoyance , maybe envy, of the protagonist in Practice. You quoted one of the parts of the book I thought was such good writing. I loved hearing your experience with “practice”. Really interesting! I love the short bangs. 🥰. I also love New Hampshire. It holds a special place in my heart.
Emily from TheLinguistsLibrary has got me onto Lispector, & I'm loving it. I'm reading the Benjamin Moser bio at the moment. Ah, Anne Carsons' Greek Tragedies translations, I love them (I've just done a video on this). So many fabulous books.
what lispector have you read? i read about a third of moser’s biography but dropped off - i would like to get back to it at some point because she really is a fascinating person
"surprisingly horny!!!...oxford undergrad..." 💀 love how previous readings of Lispector have changed your approach to her work and how you see her work. all developing and full of heart <333
hi sophie!! i love your videos. can you share how exactly you are practicing your writing? do you have advice on it? i love reading and am trying to get into writing different types of texts, and am finding myself overwhelmed and procrastinating
so, i’m still very much a novice at regular writing, and have not been practicing so stupendously but things that have helped me: forcing myself to write daily in certain periods, even if i don’t produce anything useful writing by hand helps me move forward rather than self-editing i’m experimenting more with voice-to-text writing right after i’ve read something; using a passage i’ve read as the seed to write my own material setting deadlines to send materials to people (i need to do this for dissertation!) that said, the procrastination is sooo real
Bang! bang! bang! Self-manicured purple bangs, ehh? Oui, an exercise in good-natured self-reliance in an age of inflation☑ Why did you have to cut yourself during the singing part 5:38? I was starting to get a feel for it🎶 🎵 Canta! Canta! Sophie, the opera singer⭐
thank you for the virtual hug, truly. i don’t think i was so sad that week, but i do trend towards a baseline melancholy:) and thank you for nice comments about the vlog!
