From one young cancer patient to another, I'm sorry you've joined this club, it really freaking sucks. I hope chemo goes as well as it possibly can for you.
Honestly, what is going on?? I'm young and looks like I've got thyroid cancer, but it feels like every other day I see yet another cancer announcement and they're all young but people aren't talking about this
@@erebusagarista8031Thyroid cancer is the most treatable cancer. It is a pain to take the thyroid pill everyday! You are in good hands with the treatable thyroid cancer. 8 1/2 years thyroid cancer free.
@@erebusagarista8031 i’m sorry about your probable thyroid cancer 🖤 there is DEFINITELY an uptick in cancers in young people. of course some of that is just more and better diagnosis, but i think it’s really not just that. i’m now part of a study specific to nh lymphomas trying to track trends
"I have cancer....so here's what I've been reading lol " In all seriousness, so sorry to hear your news. Stay strong, dear Sophie. I pray you have all the strength and peace you need in the coming months as you go through treatments. There is hope on the other side. I am 7 years cancer free now.
ha ha yes, bit of whiplash in this video, but i did want to get to proper business: books! 😁 thank you for your thoughts and encouragement, and sharing a bit about your own experience! 🖤
@@bibliosophieI wish to bring some encouragement by sharing some optimism and hope. Some things are just too difficult to say here (if you know what I mean), so please write down the capital letters from the following paragraph. I hope you understand. 😉 Frogs Often Leap Lightly Over Water. Many Armadillos are Keeping In Shape. Many Dingos Occasionally Need X-rays. I’ll translate only part. I hope you understand why. Follow _____ MD on _. Many blessings 👍
Simply awful news to hear, it's tremendously brave of you to keep on uploading through this time. All my thoughts are with you, thank you for making RUclips a more magical place.
sending you well wishes and strength through all of this. lovely to see that reading has been good company for you. happy to hear you enjoyed the Pessoa! been meaning to get to it, and if it's a book for you, it's surely a book for me!
HI Sophie - wishing you all the best. I’m. Four years post treatment and I’m rooting for you! Thanks for all you give out to the world it is so appreciated - Susan
I did notice you've been away for a good while Sophie🙂. For someone undergoing cancer treatment, you're taking it rather cool, which is good. I like your upbeat attitude. For you, everything else continues. You've always been a tough cookie🍪 Wishing you full recovery my dear🙏
This is the first video of yours I'm seeing. I don't know who you are but I wish you all the best things in life. I hope you can heal peacefully and we can celebrate your recovery soon together ❤❤❤
Sending you best wishes and prayers for your treatment. Thank you for taking the time to share this and your reviews. Books will always offer us respite from our problems. Sending you love xx
My mother had cancer this summer and after 2 chemo treatments it is in remission. She still cannot walk due to the tumor that cracked her spine. She is an elderly woman so she is not doing well at all and it’s so stressful and demanding taking care of her. She has 2 more treatments to go as a precautionary and it’s been horrible. You’re so young and in great shape, I’m sure you’ll kick its butt, but I’m glad to follow along your journey and wish you the best.
i’m sorry your mother is going through such a difficult time, and you as a caretaker. i wish both of you strength and courage and hope 🖤 thank you for your wishes!
NHL and AML survivor here, that sucks dude. 13 years later and I still have PTSD and late effects from chemo AND i’m also doing great. No one can tell you’re gonna be fine, and you probably won’t be for at least a little while. But I hope you got people you can lean on to help you move through it.
i’m sorry about the various after effects of chemo still - it’s a hell of thing to put a body through. i definitely have good people in my life, which i know will help massively, and i’m just taking things as they come. i know the treatments will get harder as i get weaker, but i’ve been very happy at least to have a generally very easy first month. i’ll take all the little victories i can get!
It’s easy for me to say, but I know that you can pull through this and please don’t feel pressured to upload. Also, I’ve never left a comment before, so I just wanted to say how glad I am that I discovered this channel through the Disco King’s quiz video. You’re easily one of the best BookTubers out there
sending you so much love sophie!! absolutely in awe at the grace and strength you’re handling this with. you’re su h a bright light here on booktube and i’m glad you’ve had books to keep you company!!
I’ve been where you are (different type), thankfully I made it through, and I wish the same for you my darling - I hope you have loved ones to lean on during this time x
thank you! sorry you’re familiar with cancer yourself - i’m finding it simultaneously alarming and comforting to find out how many people in my immediate and extended universe are 🖤
Sending you so much love and strength Sophie. I survived HER2+ Breast Cancer almost 10 years ago when I was 33. A huge comfort for me during that time was just how far medicine has come and that so many cancers are survivable now (echoing what you were saying about your diagnosis). Wishing you as much comfort as possible during this time. Also, thank you for your thoughts on Our Evenings! I fully intended to finish it before it's release date and then life happened, so it's been on hold for almost a month. I'm looking forward to finishing it soon. I agree that some of the passages are a little long, but I also kind of don't mind that. The writing is just good and that goes a long way.
thank you for the good wishes and sharing your own experience! i’m also very much comforted by how “normal” it is to survive my category of cancer. it doesn’t mean an easy road, but it means a road with a probable happy ending. i’m glad you’ve enjoyed our evenings so far. the atmosphere is very engrossing, so if you’re not put off by its sort of formless length, all the better!
damn, i just discovered this channel yesterday and now im already crying walking up one day and noticing something wrong with your body really is scary, im not an optimistic person but i really hope you'll get through this challenge
Sending you so much love and wishing you all the best for your treatment. 💗 A friend of mine had non-Hodgkins lymphoma. She beat it and has been in remission for 15+ years now and is THRIVING! 🫶🏾
the simultaneously scary and comforting thing i’ve found out in all of this is that a lot more people than i ever imagined have/have had non-hodgkin lymphoma, and they all did very well with treatment. i’m very glad to be “banal”
Sophie, I continue to think about you. I’m so glad you can still sing! Oh how much I love The Pumpkin Eater and Penelope Mortimer in general. I think I enjoyed the refreshing voice. It is a mood! I do want to try Lydia Davis!
Sending you all the love and strength and I hope you have a speedy recovery. I’m glad that you’re still able to enjoy reading I have The Book of Disquiet on my tbr and I hope I can get to it before the year ends ♥️♥️
thank you! with the book of disquiet, i suggest just dipping in - bc it’s made up of really short sections, you can really just read a few pages at a time
I just came across your channel and I am so so sorry to hear you're going through this but you seem like a strong woman and I know you will get through this! ❤ sending you all the prayers and hugs!
sry to hear about the cancer, that's rough - take all the time you need, wishing you good health and spirits ~ really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on these books as always ~
I was given 3 months without treatment and three years with treatment for mantel cell lymphoma, non hodgkins also. That was 11 years ago. Cancer sux . I had the bone marrow transplant. I've since helped my mother get over her lymphoma, too. If you need any advice or just need someone to let you know what to expect or pitfalls to avoid during treatment, reach out . I'd gladly give you my info to contact me privately. Good luck, and I'm sorry you are going through this
I hope your treatments go as smoothly as can be and you make a full recovery 💛 I’m glad you enjoyed Dune! I definitely recommend the new movies, they are simply beautiful films.
thank you! i probably will watch the new films at some point - ideally not on a tiny airplane screen, which i really don’t think is where they’ll shine lol
This video showed up on my feed and I'm incredibly sorry to hear about your cancer diagnosis. Wishing you the best. The Vets Daughter is a depressing read, if you want to read something else by Comyns I could not recommend The Skin Chairs more highly, more upbeat but also unusual. Her debut novel, Sisters by a River is also great.
thank you! and thank you for comyns recos: i do want want to spend more time in her writing. i actually started who was changed and who was dead right after finishing the vet’s daughter bc it was also available as audiobook, but that was WAY too depressing ha ha
I’m so sorry about your diagnosis. I wish you all the best, all the strength, in dealing with and beating that shit. I’m glad you still plan to continue reading and talking about books, always love hearing your thoughts 💜 I really want to read The Book of Disquiet, looking forward to your final thoughts!
wishing you all the best!! it's good to know you are able to keep up your hobbies and they bring you peace during this time. i hope everything goes well, sending blessings and love!! ❤❤
I have not watched your content before. I enjoyed your articulation and insights. I Also noticed your determination to fight the illness. Keep that up.
Re: writing style in Intermezzo, yes, that is absolutely what her prose is like in her other works! I didn’t enjoy Conversations with Friends but keen to give her another shot. And thank you for being optimistic about the chemo and everything. You’ll get through it ❤
wishing you all the strength during your treatment 💞🌻 glad to hear you enjoyed dune! my friends have really loved the movies too so dune is definitely on my radar to read soon
thank you! 💚 i would be very curious to hear yr dune thoughts - i admit i rolled my eyes at a number of aspects of it, but i definitely do recommend it. it was a good and sometimes quite thoughtful time
So lovely to see your optimism, Sophie. Wishing you all the best for this next chapter. I felt the same way as you about both The Pumpkin Eater and Intermezzo (also my first Rooney). The syntactical choices in Intermezzo grated on me. It’s also present in Ivan’s chapters but less noticeable than the Peter POV I think.
thank you! i *thought* it wasn’t just in peter pov sections, but i couldn’t quite remember, and i was a bit too lazy to search through :) i’m glad to be validated in my impressions!
I have also never read a full Rooney book…I just began Beautiful World. I think I might actually like Normal People but time will tell. I’m going to wait until I exhaust my tbr before reading intermezzo after hearing your thoughts 🙏 I’m so sorry for your health struggles 💜
@@bibliosophiehmmm to be fair, I picked up Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward, a tough read but utterly captivating and Beautiful World pales in comparison to it. I’m not sure if I am giving it a fair go right now. Although maybe I picked up another book because I was bored. I’m conflicted.
A close relative of mine was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in his mid 50s…he was treated and lived another 30 years (in remission)…the treatment was tough, but it worked. May God protect and heal you.
thank you! i’m hearing so many cases of other non-hodgkin’s lymphomas that turned out all right after a difficult period that i really have a clear goal 🖤
Sending you soooooo much love and thoughts Sophie. And if there’s anything I can do, let me know. Lovely as always to hear your thoughts. Especially on Intermezzo and Our Evenings which I’ve still not read either of. I loved Normal People, have been waiting for another Rooney to have that hit. I want to love Alan Hollinghurst more, I find them sooooooo long though. It’s like his editor is always on holiday when he hands a book in 😂 You’ve tempted me to try Dune, something I never thought I would type. Much. Much. Much love xxx
thank you! well, if you’ve found hollinghurst too long before, i don’t think this book is going to change your mind 🙃 but the writing is good, and so is the atmosphere. i’d give dune a try! i really didn’t find it unmanageable!
It's so wonderful to see you here. I missed you!! Pessoa is on my list too, and I snorted with delight just now when you said that one of his personalities was "sometimes insufferable". E x
oyyy i’m currently hitting a bit of a wall with some of the insufferable parts of the pessoa. i had to read some of his poetry to remind myself why i like him and get over that wall. thanks for the welcome back!
Shiiit, cancer doesn't discriminate. I know you will come out the other side of this, I know that you're strong and intelligent and all the things, and also I give you warm and big hugs for when you need them. It's a lot. Much love to you.
@@bibliosophie No, it won't be easy. A couple of years ago I got through 2 simultaneous cancer diagnoses with a tumor the size of a melon. It was a lonely, sometimes frightening and unmooring, radical but ultimately enlightening experience that I am grateful to have had (and am still having in some ways). At times I was giddy with all I was learning in myriad spheres, at other times I had to shut right off and not read, not analyze, not process, not think. Sporadically, I had to let go of the realist and get into the head of a magical thinker and be ok with that to be ok. More than anything, I had to let go of being what I think of as the perfect patient and be an empathetic, kind, gentle nurse to myself. If you need something, Sophie, don't hesitate to let us know. There are hordes of real people out here who care about you and would like to help you through this time in any way possible.
6 yrs cured from NHL myself. I realize there are many types of NHL, but I was told they considered mine cured, not just remission. Weird experience, all encompassing, but dare I say, interesting journey from a certain perspective. Books and RUclips were my distractions:) Wish you were not having this experience, but I hope your treatment goes smoothly and is a distant memory as well a few years from now. ❤
thank you so much for this message. i found it very encouraging 🖤 that’s what i envision for myself - i do honestly believe that at some point in the future all of this will be a weird, sometimes nightmarish, and definitely very interesting episode of my long life :)
hi sophie, sending you lots of love and strength from portugal ! i’m really glad that you’re enjoying pessoa and if you want to read another portuguese author I’d suggest josé saramago with blindness (everyone is blind), death with interruptions (everyone stops dying) or caim (passages of the bible told through the eyes of cain with a humorous twist that adds to his increasing hatred of god). wishing you all the best !!
Sorry about your health news. Your strength and optimism is amazimg amd i KNOW you will beat it. Sending much love and positive vibes ❤. 💯 agree about the "spiky sentences" in Imtermezzo. Interesting but also a bit excessive? I dont recall this style to this degree in Normal People, the only other Rooney I've read. I am enjoying Intermezzo for the most part, though...
thanks! i definitely plan to pull through, as much as can really plan for such a thing. but really, i’m optimistic 🖤 yes, excessive is the word. i’ll still check out another book of hers at some point probably - i’m still curious
@@bibliosophie No, this is my first. Even though I enjoyed this one, it does not make me curious enough to read her backlist. I am curious to watch Normal People, though.
@@26vertigos fair fair 😁 i do recommend the show! i couldn’t watch it when it first came out bc it was too painful in the midst of covid lockdown and my own personal travails, but i ended up quite liking it
Oof the pumpkin eater has my name all over it. English bourgeois surealism 🙋🏻♀️ I know the chemo context definitely colored your perception of intermezzo - i feel confident that intermezzo may be better than chemo. Watch the new dunes! The worms are not to be missed. Lots of love and support ❤
Astonishingly brave to keep it trucking, that's the Sophie we've come to know and love! You're absolutely right, you CAN still sing and write, and we WILL continue to look forward to your literary content. Because I loathe the idea of just talking about 'the announcement,' I do want to mention that, on the theme of you reading Pessoa, I'm always relieved by your more philosophical and generally contemplative interest in texts. This is obviously not a requirement for being an engaged reader, but often I find that people shirk potentially eye-opening texts due to stigmas or a "I'll just be no good at it" attitude (that we similarly find in something like mathematics). It's refreshing to know you're always considering the odd Pessoa. I do have a general question w/r/t _The Intermezzo_ , was some of the impetus for reading it that you could participate in the 'Zeitgeist?' One of the vexing things about my relationship to books is that I always feel I'm reading things whose time in the social consciousness has indubitably expired. Due to this, sometimes I'm tempted to pick up "the new book" because I know that people will be discussing it both IRL and online, allowing me to finally ape the parasociality.
thank you! ha ha, i have no such fear as “i’ll just be no good at it” when it comes to written material - if anything, i tend to be foolhardy in assuming that i’ll figure just about anything out, if there’s something to figure out:)
re rooney and the zeitgeist: yes, to some extent i read this one bc it’s one of the hot releases of the season. the biggest reason was that a friend had brought it to me in hospital, so i felt i should partake of my gift. but i’ve been meaning to check out the buzz for a while. i think i specialize neither in popular nor arcane books, so i’m always a bit in both worlds
Sophie, I wish you strength and optimism to go through with your treatment, i hope you'll beat it soon and will have many more healthy years ahead. Sorry, i cant really phrase it well, but really wish you all the best. Also can suggest you a book "A novel about a good person" by Emma Andijewska. Not sure if it your cup of tea exactly but she has an absolutely unique style of story telling and a use of magical realism which is entwined into the story seamlessly. Plus after finishing it i was left with some really great belief in goodness and people, though the story does touch some heavy topics. It is set in a camp for displaced persons after ww2 where thousands of ukrainians found refuge escaping communists and waiting for their papers to move to other countries for their new life, for some it took many years. And true to its name its delves into goodness of a person and how your activities can affect others lives. Another one is On shaky ground by V. Domontovych, first it was published in occupied Kharkiv in 1942 but only this year the first english translation came out. Outside it is talking about this historian who works in a committee that decides what is an art to keep and what can be demolished (we are talking about 1930). He is sent on a work trip to his home city, which changed significantly. It is pretty weird and it took me awhile to get into but once my mood synched with a story it was a marvel. It has this outer layer on things that arent happening or not happening that dont seem all that important (how interesting can a work trip be which you try to avoid at all cost?) but also this layer of hints and guesses of what is happening with people inside, and how the atmosphere is in this early stages of a new government and how pressure solidifies... If it interests you, i suggest begin reading and see if it clicks with you right now, and if not maybe put if off for later, for a better reading experience Again wish all the best and only good books coming your way!
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From one young cancer patient to another, I'm sorry you've joined this club, it really freaking sucks. I hope chemo goes as well as it possibly can for you.
ach, i’m sorry you can speak from experience. thanks for the well wishes. good courage to you, too! 🖤
Honestly, what is going on?? I'm young and looks like I've got thyroid cancer, but it feels like every other day I see yet another cancer announcement and they're all young but people aren't talking about this
@@erebusagarista8031Thyroid cancer is the most treatable cancer. It is a pain to take the thyroid pill everyday! You are in good hands with the treatable thyroid cancer. 8 1/2 years thyroid cancer free.
@@erebusagarista8031 i’m sorry about your probable thyroid cancer 🖤
there is DEFINITELY an uptick in cancers in young people. of course some of that is just more and better diagnosis, but i think it’s really not just that. i’m now part of a study specific to nh lymphomas trying to track trends
"I have cancer....so here's what I've been reading lol " In all seriousness, so sorry to hear your news. Stay strong, dear Sophie. I pray you have all the strength and peace you need in the coming months as you go through treatments. There is hope on the other side. I am 7 years cancer free now.
ha ha yes, bit of whiplash in this video, but i did want to get to proper business: books! 😁
thank you for your thoughts and encouragement, and sharing a bit about your own experience! 🖤
@@bibliosophieI wish to bring some encouragement by sharing some optimism and hope.
Some things are just too difficult to say here (if you know what I mean), so please write down the capital letters from the following paragraph. I hope you understand. 😉
Frogs Often Leap Lightly Over Water. Many Armadillos are Keeping In Shape. Many Dingos Occasionally Need X-rays.
I’ll translate only part. I hope you understand why.
Follow _____ MD on _.
Many blessings 👍
I know someone who had the same cancer who has since recovered and doing well! The treatment isn’t fun but you can get through this ❤ hugs!!!
yes, it’s really not so uncommon, unfortunately, and everyone i’ve heard of has done really well with treatment! thanks for well wishes! 💙
Simply awful news to hear, it's tremendously brave of you to keep on uploading through this time. All my thoughts are with you, thank you for making RUclips a more magical place.
thank you! 🤗🖤
sending you well wishes and strength through all of this. lovely to see that reading has been good company for you.
happy to hear you enjoyed the Pessoa! been meaning to get to it, and if it's a book for you, it's surely a book for me!
thank you 🤍
i think the pessoa will very much be a book for you!
I'm terribly sorry to hear this. I wish you strength and endurance. You are a being of great beauty, intelligence, and creative power.
🖤 thank you!
🖤 thank you!
Sophie, I wish you Health, Healing, Peace, and many Blessings!
thank you!
Sending you strength and health, Sophie! I love the way you talk and write about books :)
thanks!
HI Sophie - wishing you all the best. I’m. Four years post treatment and I’m rooting for you! Thanks for all you give out to the world it is so appreciated - Susan
thank you for the encouragement and inspiration! 🖤
Stay positive, the mind affects the body more than we know. You gonna beat this for sure! Wishing you the best, Sophie 🌹
i really believe i am! (the science is good, too)
I did notice you've been away for a good while Sophie🙂. For someone undergoing cancer treatment, you're taking it rather cool, which is good. I like your upbeat attitude. For you, everything else continues. You've always been a tough cookie🍪 Wishing you full recovery my dear🙏
ha ha yes, i think i am a tough cookie, and i plan to use that to my advantage! thanks!
@@bibliosophie 🥰🙏 all the best.
This is the first video of yours I'm seeing. I don't know who you are but I wish you all the best things in life. I hope you can heal peacefully and we can celebrate your recovery soon together ❤❤❤
thank you! 🖤 and welcome to the channel :)
Sending you best wishes and prayers for your treatment. Thank you for taking the time to share this and your reviews. Books will always offer us respite from our problems. Sending you love xx
🖤 thank you!
Sorry to hear your health news. I hope you have a speedy and full recovery. Good to have you back. Look after yourself!
thank you!
My mother had cancer this summer and after 2 chemo treatments it is in remission. She still cannot walk due to the tumor that cracked her spine. She is an elderly woman so she is not doing well at all and it’s so stressful and demanding taking care of her. She has 2 more treatments to go as a precautionary and it’s been horrible. You’re so young and in great shape, I’m sure you’ll kick its butt, but I’m glad to follow along your journey and wish you the best.
i’m sorry your mother is going through such a difficult time, and you as a caretaker. i wish both of you strength and courage and hope 🖤
thank you for your wishes!
The treatment was challenging, but I am a 7 year survivor of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma. I wish you well on your journey.
i love to hear it! thank you! 🤍
NHL and AML survivor here, that sucks dude. 13 years later and I still have PTSD and late effects from chemo AND i’m also doing great. No one can tell you’re gonna be fine, and you probably won’t be for at least a little while. But I hope you got people you can lean on to help you move through it.
i’m sorry about the various after effects of chemo still - it’s a hell of thing to put a body through. i definitely have good people in my life, which i know will help massively, and i’m just taking things as they come. i know the treatments will get harder as i get weaker, but i’ve been very happy at least to have a generally very easy first month. i’ll take all the little victories i can get!
It’s easy for me to say, but I know that you can pull through this and please don’t feel pressured to upload. Also, I’ve never left a comment before, so I just wanted to say how glad I am that I discovered this channel through the Disco King’s quiz video. You’re easily one of the best BookTubers out there
thank you! both for your confidence and your compliment!! 💙
sending you so much love sophie!! absolutely in awe at the grace and strength you’re handling this with. you’re su h a bright light here on booktube and i’m glad you’ve had books to keep you company!!
😭🤗 thank you so much!
I hope you have access to great medical care and that you have some loved ones near by to give you comfort. Glad you enjoyed Pessoa.
thank you! i’m lucky to be very well surrounded, which will help a great deal 💙
I’ve been where you are (different type), thankfully I made it through, and I wish the same for you my darling - I hope you have loved ones to lean on during this time x
thank you! sorry you’re familiar with cancer yourself - i’m finding it simultaneously alarming and comforting to find out how many people in my immediate and extended universe are 🖤
Sending you so much love and strength Sophie. I survived HER2+ Breast Cancer almost 10 years ago when I was 33. A huge comfort for me during that time was just how far medicine has come and that so many cancers are survivable now (echoing what you were saying about your diagnosis). Wishing you as much comfort as possible during this time.
Also, thank you for your thoughts on Our Evenings! I fully intended to finish it before it's release date and then life happened, so it's been on hold for almost a month. I'm looking forward to finishing it soon. I agree that some of the passages are a little long, but I also kind of don't mind that. The writing is just good and that goes a long way.
thank you for the good wishes and sharing your own experience! i’m also very much comforted by how “normal” it is to survive my category of cancer. it doesn’t mean an easy road, but it means a road with a probable happy ending.
i’m glad you’ve enjoyed our evenings so far. the atmosphere is very engrossing, so if you’re not put off by its sort of formless length, all the better!
damn, i just discovered this channel yesterday and now im already crying
walking up one day and noticing something wrong with your body really is scary, im not an optimistic person but i really hope you'll get through this challenge
i plan to get through it :)
Oh Sophie. I’m sorry to hear your news but inspired by your delivery. Cool as ever. Sending all the healing vibes. ♥️
💜💜 thank you!
Sending you so much love and wishing you all the best for your treatment. 💗 A friend of mine had non-Hodgkins lymphoma. She beat it and has been in remission for 15+ years now and is THRIVING! 🫶🏾
the simultaneously scary and comforting thing i’ve found out in all of this is that a lot more people than i ever imagined have/have had non-hodgkin lymphoma, and they all did very well with treatment. i’m very glad to be “banal”
Sorry you have to go through this, Sophie. Hope you are getting all the support you need.
thanks 🖤
Wishing you the very best of luck with your treatment 🤗
thank you!
Wishing you a fast healing, miss Sophie🙏💕
thank you!
I'm so sorry to hear that, I hope everything goes well for you Sophie.
thank you! 💜
Sending you lots of strength for those chemos! Hope you have a peaceful process
thank you!
Good to hear it's treatable. I wish you all the best in your recovery.❤
thank you!
Sophie, I continue to think about you. I’m so glad you can still sing! Oh how much I love The Pumpkin Eater and Penelope Mortimer in general. I think I enjoyed the refreshing voice. It is a mood! I do want to try Lydia Davis!
definitely a mood! and i understand mortimer’s appeal, but i just never quite fell in love. i think you’d really like davis’ essays!
and thank you 🥰
I'm so sad to hear your very serious news....wishing you health and strength....you will get through it....🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤
i will! thank you 💜
Sending you all the love and strength and I hope you have a speedy recovery. I’m glad that you’re still able to enjoy reading I have The Book of Disquiet on my tbr and I hope I can get to it before the year ends ♥️♥️
thank you! with the book of disquiet, i suggest just dipping in - bc it’s made up of really short sections, you can really just read a few pages at a time
I just came across your channel and I am so so sorry to hear you're going through this but you seem like a strong woman and I know you will get through this! ❤ sending you all the prayers and hugs!
thank you! i’m feeling confident 🖤
sry to hear about the cancer, that's rough - take all the time you need, wishing you good health and spirits ~ really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on these books as always ~
🤍 thank you!
You will take it as it comes my dear friend, God give you the strength I pray
i will! thank you!
You will get through this
thank you!
I was given 3 months without treatment and three years with treatment for mantel cell lymphoma, non hodgkins also. That was 11 years ago.
Cancer sux . I had the bone marrow transplant. I've since helped my mother get over her lymphoma, too.
If you need any advice or just need someone to let you know what to expect or pitfalls to avoid during treatment, reach out . I'd gladly give you my info to contact me privately. Good luck, and I'm sorry you are going through this
thanks for the good wishes! i’m sorry you’re so well acquainted with what i’m embarking on 🖤
I hope your treatments go as smoothly as can be and you make a full recovery 💛
I’m glad you enjoyed Dune! I definitely recommend the new movies, they are simply beautiful films.
thank you! i probably will watch the new films at some point - ideally not on a tiny airplane screen, which i really don’t think is where they’ll shine lol
This video showed up on my feed and I'm incredibly sorry to hear about your cancer diagnosis. Wishing you the best. The Vets Daughter is a depressing read, if you want to read something else by Comyns I could not recommend The Skin Chairs more highly, more upbeat but also unusual. Her debut novel, Sisters by a River is also great.
thank you! and thank you for comyns recos: i do want want to spend more time in her writing. i actually started who was changed and who was dead right after finishing the vet’s daughter bc it was also available as audiobook, but that was WAY too depressing ha ha
I'll be 🙏 praying for you as you go through this difficult time.
@@williezhang746 thank you!
I’m so sorry about your diagnosis. I wish you all the best, all the strength, in dealing with and beating that shit. I’m glad you still plan to continue reading and talking about books, always love hearing your thoughts 💜 I really want to read The Book of Disquiet, looking forward to your final thoughts!
thank you! i think it’ll be good for me to keep reading and talking about books as much as i can, so i’m glad people are on board! 💙
Cheering you on, Sophie!
I really love your hair color in this video and always happy to hear your reading updates 💕
thank you 🤗
the hair is gone now, but it did fade into a really interesting grey-purple sort of thing over the course of september - i liked it too!
wishing you all the best!! it's good to know you are able to keep up your hobbies and they bring you peace during this time. i hope everything goes well, sending blessings and love!! ❤❤
💙💙 thanks!
Sending you all the love and best wishes for your treatment. I hope books bring you comfort and distraction 💛
💚 thank you!
Sending you best thoughts and wishes for your recovery ❤
thank you! 🤗
I have not watched your content before. I enjoyed your articulation and insights. I Also noticed your determination to fight the illness. Keep that up.
welcome! and thank you!
Good to see you and hear your thoughts. Wishing you great strength and care from close friends and family as you continue through treatment. 🙏🏼
thank you thank you!! 🤍
sophie!! sending you all of the love! all of the strength! 💖💖
🥰 thank you!!
I am so sorry to hear your news. Sending you so much love xxxxx
thank you! 🖤
Re: writing style in Intermezzo, yes, that is absolutely what her prose is like in her other works! I didn’t enjoy Conversations with Friends but keen to give her another shot.
And thank you for being optimistic about the chemo and everything. You’ll get through it ❤
hmmm i was wondering if that was the case. that puts me off somewhat, but i’ll still probably give another one of her books a shot.
and thank you!
Sending you positive vibes - you can and will totally beat this. Sorry you have to go through this. ❤
thank you! i can and will beat it indeed!
wishing you all the strength during your treatment 💞🌻 glad to hear you enjoyed dune! my friends have really loved the movies too so dune is definitely on my radar to read soon
thank you! 💚
i would be very curious to hear yr dune thoughts - i admit i rolled my eyes at a number of aspects of it, but i definitely do recommend it. it was a good and sometimes quite thoughtful time
I’m sorry you’re going through this, I prayed for you
thank you!
So lovely to see your optimism, Sophie. Wishing you all the best for this next chapter.
I felt the same way as you about both The Pumpkin Eater and Intermezzo (also my first Rooney). The syntactical choices in Intermezzo grated on me. It’s also present in Ivan’s chapters but less noticeable than the Peter POV I think.
thank you!
i *thought* it wasn’t just in peter pov sections, but i couldn’t quite remember, and i was a bit too lazy to search through :) i’m glad to be validated in my impressions!
I have also never read a full Rooney book…I just began Beautiful World. I think I might actually like Normal People but time will tell. I’m going to wait until I exhaust my tbr before reading intermezzo after hearing your thoughts 🙏 I’m so sorry for your health struggles 💜
how are you liking beautiful world?
and thank you!
@@bibliosophiehmmm to be fair, I picked up Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward, a tough read but utterly captivating and Beautiful World pales in comparison to it. I’m not sure if I am giving it a fair go right now. Although maybe I picked up another book because I was bored. I’m conflicted.
@ ha, i know that conflict well! “is the book not for me? am i not for the book? for now? forever?”
@@bibliosophieExactly!
Sending you strength Sophie!
thank you!
Wishing you all the strength❤❤❤
thank you! 💚
sending you lots of love Sophie! ❤📚
thanks!
Sending lots of love and good vibes and hoping you get well again very soon! Your channel is a gem! xxx
thank you! for good wishes AND compliments! 😁
sending nothing but positivity!! the book of disquiet is one of my favorite books of all time!
💚 thank you!
Wishing you well in every sense of the word. I sure enjoy your book reviews and channel in general.
thank you! love the wishes and love to hear you enjoy my channel!
Thanks for sharing so candidly here, Sophie. Wishing you the very best. ❤
thank you!
Sorry to hear. Stay strong.
Happy to hear that it is treatable
i plan to stay strong and happy as possible - it’s the best thing i can do. thank you!
Wishing you the best, Sophie.
💜 thank you!
all the best for your treatment, sophie!
thank you!
A close relative of mine was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in his mid 50s…he was treated and lived another 30 years (in remission)…the treatment was tough, but it worked. May God protect and heal you.
thank you! i’m hearing so many cases of other non-hodgkin’s lymphomas that turned out all right after a difficult period that i really have a clear goal 🖤
I am so sorry to hear this. I'm a new subscriber, I found your channel through another Booktuber. I am wishing you so much strength and well wishes!
thank you! 🖤 and welcome :)
I wish you health and a lot of strength❤
thank you!
Bon rétablissement sophie ❤❤
merci! :)
Sending you soooooo much love and thoughts Sophie. And if there’s anything I can do, let me know.
Lovely as always to hear your thoughts. Especially on Intermezzo and Our Evenings which I’ve still not read either of. I loved Normal People, have been waiting for another Rooney to have that hit. I want to love Alan Hollinghurst more, I find them sooooooo long though. It’s like his editor is always on holiday when he hands a book in 😂 You’ve tempted me to try Dune, something I never thought I would type. Much. Much. Much love xxx
thank you!
well, if you’ve found hollinghurst too long before, i don’t think this book is going to change your mind 🙃 but the writing is good, and so is the atmosphere.
i’d give dune a try! i really didn’t find it unmanageable!
It's so wonderful to see you here. I missed you!! Pessoa is on my list too, and I snorted with delight just now when you said that one of his personalities was "sometimes insufferable". E x
oyyy i’m currently hitting a bit of a wall with some of the insufferable parts of the pessoa. i had to read some of his poetry to remind myself why i like him and get over that wall. thanks for the welcome back!
Shiiit, cancer doesn't discriminate. I know you will come out the other side of this, I know that you're strong and intelligent and all the things, and also I give you warm and big hugs for when you need them. It's a lot. Much love to you.
thank you very much. i will come out on the other side, although i know it won’t always be easy 🖤
@@bibliosophie No, it won't be easy.
A couple of years ago I got through 2 simultaneous cancer diagnoses with a tumor the size of a melon. It was a lonely, sometimes frightening and unmooring, radical but ultimately enlightening experience that I am grateful to have had (and am still having in some ways). At times I was giddy with all I was learning in myriad spheres, at other times I had to shut right off and not read, not analyze, not process, not think. Sporadically, I had to let go of the realist and get into the head of a magical thinker and be ok with that to be ok. More than anything, I had to let go of being what I think of as the perfect patient and be an empathetic, kind, gentle nurse to myself.
If you need something, Sophie, don't hesitate to let us know. There are hordes of real people out here who care about you
and would like to help you through this time in any way possible.
Bon courage, Sophie !!!
merci!!
Terrible news to hear. Sending love and support!
thank you!
Very sorry to hear that dear...Stay strong ❤️🩹🙏🏻
thank you!
6 yrs cured from NHL myself. I realize there are many types of NHL, but I was told they considered mine cured, not just remission. Weird experience, all encompassing, but dare I say, interesting journey from a certain perspective. Books and RUclips were my distractions:) Wish you were not having this experience, but I hope your treatment goes smoothly and is a distant memory as well a few years from now. ❤
thank you so much for this message. i found it very encouraging 🖤
that’s what i envision for myself - i do honestly believe that at some point in the future all of this will be a weird, sometimes nightmarish, and definitely very interesting episode of my long life :)
Sending you my thoughts of strength & resilience xxx
thanks!
sending you all the love and wishes and strength!
thank you! 🖤
hi sophie, sending you lots of love and strength from portugal !
i’m really glad that you’re enjoying pessoa and if you want to read another portuguese author I’d suggest josé saramago with blindness (everyone is blind), death with interruptions (everyone stops dying) or caim (passages of the bible told through the eyes of cain with a humorous twist that adds to his increasing hatred of god).
wishing you all the best !!
thank you for your wishes ! i’ve read 2 of the saramago books you mention, and i agree with your recommendations 😁
Thinking of you Sophie ❤️ sending all my love
thank you! 🖤🖤
sending u love, wishing you the best queen🩷
thank you!
Sorry about your health news.
Your strength and optimism is amazimg amd i KNOW you will beat it. Sending much love and positive vibes ❤.
💯 agree about the "spiky sentences" in Imtermezzo. Interesting but also a bit excessive? I dont recall this style to this degree in Normal People, the only other Rooney I've read. I am enjoying Intermezzo for the most part, though...
thanks! i definitely plan to pull through, as much as can really plan for such a thing. but really, i’m optimistic 🖤
yes, excessive is the word. i’ll still check out another book of hers at some point probably - i’m still curious
Nice to see you talking books again Sophie!
thanks! glad to be back!!
Sending love from New Brunswick, Canada! Bisous! You got this! Thanks for the book review - always fun to listen! :)
thank you very much ! 💙
Stay positive, and lets hope the chemo goes well. Best wishes for the future.
thank you! positivity will take me a long way, and the support i’ve been getting from people close and not close at all, too 🖤
Wishing you all the best ❤
thank you!
Wish you the best! And I felt the same way about Intermezzo.
thanks! have you read any of rooney’s other books?
@@bibliosophie No, this is my first. Even though I enjoyed this one, it does not make me curious enough to read her backlist. I am curious to watch Normal People, though.
@@26vertigos fair fair 😁 i do recommend the show! i couldn’t watch it when it first came out bc it was too painful in the midst of covid lockdown and my own personal travails, but i ended up quite liking it
Oof the pumpkin eater has my name all over it. English bourgeois surealism 🙋🏻♀️ I know the chemo context definitely colored your perception of intermezzo - i feel confident that intermezzo may be better than chemo. Watch the new dunes! The worms are not to be missed. Lots of love and support ❤
lolll a fabulous review of intermezzo: “welp, it’s better than chemo”
yes, i think the pumpkin eater DEFINITELY has yr name on it. have you read it?
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@@bibliosophiei have not! I want to now!
I hope all goes well. Ive been awaiting your return. Im tickled by the pumpkin eater, but I have a feeling id be similarly lukewarm
thank you! 🖤
re pumpkin eater: it’s a specific weird vibe, and i think one either latches onto it or not
Love Pessoa! Thanks for mentioning his writing. I recently read Orbital, by Samantha Harvey - I think it’s my personal favorite of 2024.
i was curious about orbital but got scared off bc peoples’ reactions to it have been so polarized!
YOU ARE GONNA SURVIVE THIS!! ❤ YOU'RE GONNA KICK ITS ASS!
i will! thank you! 💜
youre a strong brave person - you got this!
yes, i do! thank you!
Sending you lots of strength and lots of hugs🫂
thanks!
Wishing you all the best 🙏
thank you!
I'm so sorry Sophie
thank you! 💜
Astonishingly brave to keep it trucking, that's the Sophie we've come to know and love! You're absolutely right, you CAN still sing and write, and we WILL continue to look forward to your literary content.
Because I loathe the idea of just talking about 'the announcement,' I do want to mention that, on the theme of you reading Pessoa, I'm always relieved by your more philosophical and generally contemplative interest in texts. This is obviously not a requirement for being an engaged reader, but often I find that people shirk potentially eye-opening texts due to stigmas or a "I'll just be no good at it" attitude (that we similarly find in something like mathematics). It's refreshing to know you're always considering the odd Pessoa.
I do have a general question w/r/t _The Intermezzo_ , was some of the impetus for reading it that you could participate in the 'Zeitgeist?' One of the vexing things about my relationship to books is that I always feel I'm reading things whose time in the social consciousness has indubitably expired. Due to this, sometimes I'm tempted to pick up "the new book" because I know that people will be discussing it both IRL and online, allowing me to finally ape the parasociality.
thank you!
ha ha, i have no such fear as “i’ll just be no good at it” when it comes to written material - if anything, i tend to be foolhardy in assuming that i’ll figure just about anything out, if there’s something to figure out:)
re rooney and the zeitgeist: yes, to some extent i read this one bc it’s one of the hot releases of the season. the biggest reason was that a friend had brought it to me in hospital, so i felt i should partake of my gift. but i’ve been meaning to check out the buzz for a while. i think i specialize neither in popular nor arcane books, so i’m always a bit in both worlds
Sending you love and support Sophie❤
🤗 thank you!
Sophie, I wish you strength and optimism to go through with your treatment, i hope you'll beat it soon and will have many more healthy years ahead. Sorry, i cant really phrase it well, but really wish you all the best.
Also can suggest you a book "A novel about a good person" by Emma Andijewska. Not sure if it your cup of tea exactly but she has an absolutely unique style of story telling and a use of magical realism which is entwined into the story seamlessly. Plus after finishing it i was left with some really great belief in goodness and people, though the story does touch some heavy topics. It is set in a camp for displaced persons after ww2 where thousands of ukrainians found refuge escaping communists and waiting for their papers to move to other countries for their new life, for some it took many years. And true to its name its delves into goodness of a person and how your activities can affect others lives.
Another one is On shaky ground by V. Domontovych, first it was published in occupied Kharkiv in 1942 but only this year the first english translation came out. Outside it is talking about this historian who works in a committee that decides what is an art to keep and what can be demolished (we are talking about 1930). He is sent on a work trip to his home city, which changed significantly. It is pretty weird and it took me awhile to get into but once my mood synched with a story it was a marvel. It has this outer layer on things that arent happening or not happening that dont seem all that important (how interesting can a work trip be which you try to avoid at all cost?) but also this layer of hints and guesses of what is happening with people inside, and how the atmosphere is in this early stages of a new government and how pressure solidifies... If it interests you, i suggest begin reading and see if it clicks with you right now, and if not maybe put if off for later, for a better reading experience
Again wish all the best and only good books coming your way!
thank you for your wishes, and for your recommendations! i don’t know either book, so i’m curious to look into them! 🤍