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Hey stranger, I love you. I’m so glad that you’re here and that the algorithm led me to you. 🤍

always here through your highs and lows. what a big beautiful symphony of emotions this last vlog was. can't wait to see what you get up to in 2025. much luv to ya ma chérie <333

And here we are....2025. Sounds so Si Fi. Loved this vlog, loved the cuts, but I have to say: I really loved to see you covered in Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and your little meddle on top of her nose. I'm sure she didn't mind and it made me smile. And Stenislaw Lem reminded me the covers of the si fi books my older brother was collecting. As the child that I was, they left a strong impression.

great list as always :)

The marzipan fig!! ❤❤❤. The hood is SO on trend in the knitting world. I love it - especially the color! Brilliant. I’m looking up the Leanora Carrington stories…I’m not a short story fan, but I’m intrigued! Thanks for taking us along with you through periods of alright, better, awful and it all. 🥰

You are an inspiration to us all, Sophie! Bonne Année & here’s to joys to come 🥂

What kind? Offended, don't mind.

You are terribly cute everyday.

I adored your lil’ advent project. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on such a wide range of authors and types of writing. I know your struggles are real. Your inner shining stars are still coming through though. 💫✨It’s okay to be an imperfect patient. I say to hell with 2024 and its struggles. I wish you the only the very best of the best of the best in 2025!🥳🍾🎉

I haven’t finished The Magic Mountain yet, but it definitely sound like I need to add The Empusium to my TBR.

Thanks for sharing your reading journey. Health and happiness for the new year. Shine on.

Happy New Year Sophie! I wish you excellent heath and happiness!

happy holidays sophie!! this is such an incredible list, so many that i need to get to - i who have never known men, the wall, is mother dead!! love seeing my death and liars featured!!

Your videos are a little slip away into a dreamy world of books and a very real life. I would argue that you are quite the opposite of a difficult patient. The way you nurture your body and spirit with good books and communion with friends is the best you can do. Thank you for sharing your beautiful insights. Wishing you all the best! (Ordered Madame & the Idiots after watching! 😘)

Embracing you and enjoying your videos so much. Happy new year, dear Sophie xxx

Once again you amaze me with how graceful and articulate you are even while going through all of this. Wishing you much improvement and much a better 2025 in all aspects.

man how do you make friends who like intelligent conversation? i am new to the country and not sure

You are a delightful presence on booktube - all the most so for your honesty and your beautiful poetic eye for visual delights in your little cutaway shots. The idea of advent little books as tasters for authors is genius and following it through, there are naturally some duds but what a great way to widen reading. At the most basic level, hospital looks like a sensory deprivation tank compared to your characterful, art-filled home surroundings.

Sorry to hear that you are having such a rough time. I think you are mistaken, I believe it was Karel Čapek who introduced the word robot.

Ah, you may have just uncovered why more traditional forms of English poetry begin to grate on me after I’ve read a handful of them. I remember enjoying the Carson McCullers a lot but still haven’t gotten around to reading any of her longer works. Thank you for keeping it real and having us along with you. Wishing you much love and strength for the new year.

Oh I too love Carrington’s stories so much. Thank you for your presence and for your courage in sharing the hard moments. Wishing you much healing and joy with the coming year!

Wishing you all the best in 2025. 😎📚👍

You've probably gotten the kind of comment I'm about to make hundreds of times by now but here goes: Your moxy in the face of illness and your ability to maintain lucid, intelligent, and provocative commentary puts me to shame. I'm a coward that can barely function when I missed a few hours of sleep. Thank you for existing and making that fact available to us on the internet. I look forward to more of your contributions in the year to come.

Wishing you strength and resilience in the new year... I also want to tell you that your book recommendations are delightful. The little Carrington collection looks wonderful.

Nothing but love for you. Keeping you in thought and sending positive energy your way. You are light...keeping shining.❤

Dear heart, in spite of having some very difficult days, you still manage to be cheerful and grace us with your smiles, and I admire you so much for that. I pray 2025 brings you peace and recovery. xoxo

Girl, hope you're doing better. I wish you could show us your bookshelf I would love go have a similar one. It looks gorgeous with the cristal doors.

That marzipan fig is so darn pretty, a feast for the eyes at the very least Cancer fucking sucks - and to be honest as well, even though it’s been 4 years I still have moments of overwhelming fear it will return - it unfairly affects so many of us. I’m so sorry you joined our club, it’s a shitty one but it’s filled with awesome people who are sending you our love and strength

Happy New Year, sending hugs.

I really enjoy Gertrude Stein (especially tender buttons - what a title!), I must investigate these book advent calendars, they look like a hoot. The Brenda Pineapple bio of Gertrude & Leo Stein is fun, & the Amy Feinstein work on 'Gertrude Stein & the Making of Jewish Modernism' is stunning. 'The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas' is a delight: playful, moving, grand... Sending you my best wishes for recovery & transformation.

Have a happy new year! 🍀

Take care Sophie. Here’s to 2025

I felt sad when you said you felt guilty. Everything so complex. May I recommend a poem? To A Butterfly by William Wordsworth, I read it over Christmas and have memorised it.

Sending all of the best to you! Also, StoryGraph now has a pause feature that’s for a book where one doesn’t want to dnf, but not want to read at the moment and come back to it at a later date!! It’s already saved my life three times and it has saved my reading mood!

i hope you are doing good Sophie, bon rétablissement

I don't have much time to read as much as I'd like, and when I do read, I am a slow reader by nature, but I love books, and I love to know what is being read, what is new and what I have missed from the past. That's why I love Book Tube. I learn about the novels and writers I would otherwise miss, grow curious about, and sometimes, am inspired to read their work. So what I am saying is your reading is so eclectic and interesting and you convey your insights so well that I am very enriched by your channel, which I only discovered in the last few months, its absolutely splendid, and I wish you seasons greetings, thank for all your vids this year, and a very healthy cancer conquering new year and very importantly, more bibliophile riches to be experienced by you x

Another great, wide-ranging video! One thing though, wasn’t it the Czech writer Čapek who brought us the word robot from his play R.U.R.?

Adding Lydia Davis to my 2025 tbr*

Oh hey, your video showed up on my feed yay! Very accurate observation on why structured poetry doesn't always shine in English given it is a stressed-base language -wholeheartedly agree!

Oooo very enviable book mail! Veeery cute pink snood 💖 Lollling at the “this is very american, there is pie”. I recall enjoying the bronte poems for how emo it is, like i was hearing evanescence level angst.

Chère Sophie, je t'envoie plein de douceur et de réconfort pour 2025. J'attends avec impatience ton top de l'année. Prends bien soin de toi, bisous de la France ✨

Nothing wrong with being an imperfect patient, we need to feel all the feelings sometimes. I'm also working my way through some of the Penguin minis to wrap up the year and clear the TBR backlog; Kafka's Investigations of a Dog is next up. Wishing you a wonderful 2025.

wishing you strength and optimism as you continue through your treatments <3 Could be fun to see a video rounding up your 5 or so favorites of the tiny books!

Looking forward to hearing about your 2025 reading adventures. 😊 Happy New Year!

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Great interview, & wonderful introduction to Lispector, very appreciative of your time & talent. Now I will continue to read...

Malina is definitely going to make it to my favorites list this year! Reading it along with your Substack notes made my experience even richer. I Who Have Never Known Men has perpetually been on my TBR but I do think 2025 will be my year for it! I’m also itching to pick up more Ravn and Tocarczuk so I’m quite inspired by your list :)

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Loved this Sophie - some wonderful picks. I feel like more books should come with “hijinks ensue” on the blurb 😂 Also, Liars has really stuck with me too. I’m reading Cusk’s Parade at the moment and can’t help but wish I was reading Liars again instead.

Great recommendations, as always- and looking stunning as well! ❤