Finishing books & the last weeks of the year
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- The last 2 weeks of 2024, more ups and downs of cancer, the end of the tiny books advent calendar, trying to finish out books I've been reading before the new year
people:
@SavidgeReads
@theonlyrealproperty2567
@yenasung
books:
The Skeleton's Holiday by Leonora Carrington (multiple) (reread)
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde (1891)
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (2022)
The Breakthrough by Daphne du Maurier (1966)
Madame du Deffand and the Idiots by Javier Marías (trans. Margaret Jull Costa) (1992)
The Night is Darkening Round Me by Emily Brontë
The Old Nurse's Story, Elizabeth Gaskell (1852)
Food by Gertrude Stein
The Haunted Boy by Carson McCullers
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti (1862)
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate by Anne Boyer (2018)
Circles of Hell by Dante (trans. Robin Kirkpatrick) (1320)
The Three Electroknights by Stanislaw Lem (trans. Michael Kandel)
The Cracked Looking-Glass by Katherine Anne Porter (1932)
Essays 2 by Lydia Davis (2021)
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.?
@@NeilBruder yes, you’re right. thanks for the correction
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.
@@nickolasschachtsick595 thank you so much for this comment! it brought a (good) knot to my throat when i read it in hospital feeling sorry for myself a few days ago 🐣
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
@@zoobee thank you so much!! 🥺 i’m so happy to hear my reading and channel resonate with people, perhaps especially now. best to you for 2025 🩵
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
@@ChanelChapters i’m sure! i suspect it’s something that’ll mark me in all sorts of ways i can’t even imagine yet (including positive). thank you for yr support and wishes 🩵
@@ChanelChapters and the marzipan fig also happened to taste quite good! success!
wishing you strength and optimism as you continue through your treatments
@@mishaandpasha good idea regarding the tiny books! thanks for the good wishes 💕
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!
@@TheLinguistsLibrary our algorithm beef seems to be over 😁
glad you agree with me on the english poetry front. sometimes it’s just a lot, especially bc my first associations with poetry are french!
Hi
as a breast cancer patient myself I recognize the emotional exhaustion. I have to say I admire your ability to read and maintain focus. I'm getting my appetite for reading again after a serious case of 'chemo brain'. Your channel is a great inspiration and really enhances my appetite
Thank you for the insights and also your beautiful sense of aesthetics.
Sending you all my best wishes for the coming year❤💪✨️💫🚀
@@AnnaD-8 thank you, i really appreciate your message, and i’m so pleased to learn that i’m little part of your life. i send you my best wishes as well 💖 may 2025 be full of appetite, inspiration, beauty and recovering!
Thank you!🌟
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.
@@beththebookworm definitely feeling many feelings, and the massive doses of steroids i receive in treatment plus sleep deprivation in hospital plus constant changes in my body only make them more grandiose 🙃
may you have a wonderful 2025 yourself! and happy end of the year reading 😁
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
@@radiantchristina thank you so much! 🥺 happy 2025 to you 💕
You are an inspiration to us all, Sophie! Bonne Année & here’s to joys to come 🥂
@@robotnic thank you 💖 happy new year to you!
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.
@@juditkovacse thank you so much! 🤍 happy new year to you!
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!🥳🍾🎉
@@jorjastonej thank you!! 💕💕 i really appreciate these words of encouragement. happy new year!
leonora carrington is an author i want to get to in 2025, i have down below on my shelf!! wishing you so much happiness and health in the new year friend!!
@@casskrug i may reread down below this year. i didn’t get on with it as much as her other works, but i’m curious. in any case, i always encourage entering the weird world of carrington!
thank you 🤍
Happy New Year Sophie! I wish you excellent heath and happiness!
@@booksandstick5544 thank you! 💖
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 ✨
@@raphaelled.1943 merci !! 💖
@@raphaelled.1943 mon top de l’année est déjà posté !
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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. 🥰
@@thelefthandedreader6632 the fig was in fact very good in addition to very cute! and i also love this hood - a new gift from my mother this year 💖
i definitely encourage you to try carrington’s stories. they’re so short that i think they don’t fall into the traps of short stories in general for me
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
@@nathansnook we be feeling things… 🩵 bisous!
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.
@@heathergregg9975 thank you 🥺
yes, the hospital isn’t exactly prime for inspiration and beauty, unfortunately
i wish you a happy new year!
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.
@@pedrorocha9722 ha ha, a bit of additional decoration for the venus! :)
thank you for watching, and may 2025 be good to you!
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!
@@selkieballad thank you 💖🐣 happy new year to you!
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! 😘)
@@kahleymadison6391 thank you so much for your kind words! 🖤🖤 happy new year and happy reading :)
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.
@@jay_poet i think in longer form it doesn’t feel as repetitive, but a couple dozen poems in mostly unrelating iambs does start to drag…
thank you for watching and for your wishes! happy new year ✨
Nothing but love for you. Keeping you in thought and sending positive energy your way. You are light...keeping shining.❤
@@Elnora-i6e thank you!! 💕✨
Embracing you and enjoying your videos so much. Happy new year, dear Sophie xxx
Me again, forgot to mention that I loved spotting Midwinter Day on your table. My favourite bit is pages 44-45 which is the description of her daughter Marie's temper tantrum in the library. I felt compelled to tell you that. That's all. E x
@@theonlyrealproperty2567 thank you! 🩵 happy new year to you!
i read midwinter day 21-22 december 2023, so i wanted to do a reread this year on 22 december. i’m very glad i did. i read it less closely this time, but it was excellent to let it wash over me. my world was very different this time around… i may continue the tradition in 2025 to check in
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.
@@yenasung isn’t my saintly pink cowl a delight?! a recent gift from my mother 💖
lol i love yr description of the brontë - i enjoyed the moodiness too, overall. basically i would have preferred them to be emily dickinson. i’m pretty sure i noted yr rating on storygraph actually
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.
@@SmallSpaceCorgi thank you for watching and for your wishes! happy new year! 💖
Wishing you all the best in 2025. 😎📚👍
@@mildrumpus thank you! happy new year!
i hope you are doing good Sophie, bon rétablissement
@@omarchehab3523 thank you 🩵🩵
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.
@@alexandrialibrary483 it’s an ikea billy with added doors! i did a library tour i think 1 1/2 years ago (?) if you’re interested :)
@bibliosophie Thank you so much!!! I would go watch it, and check if the bookshelf are available. They are just so pretty. Also, I would love if you ever made a video about french pronunciation because I'm struggling with that.
@ it’s a good idea! french is definitely not easy to pronounce if you don’t know the rules…
Looking forward to hearing about your 2025 reading adventures. 😊 Happy New Year!
@@thaliad6759 happy new year! thank you! 💖
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.
@@apoetreadstowrite i liked the autobiography of alice b. toklas. the title of tender buttons is a delight, but i’ve never gotten into the writing per se. these excerpts of food are from tender buttons, i think. stein is an important and fascinating (and difficult) figure of a time/place that i spend a lot of my intellectual life in, but i can’t bring myself to like her as a person or creator
@@bibliosophie: She was a complicated person, certainly. I don't return to her regularly, & I couldn't binge her, but I enjoy what time I do give her. Her role in the creation of Modernism is interesting.
@ absolutely!
Happy New Year, sending hugs.
@@errata9968 thank you! happy new year!
Have a happy new year! 🍀
@@blumenbluehenundherzengehenauf happy new year to you!
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.
@ameliareads589 yes, you’re very right about the robot. i should have fact-checked my memory
@ameliareads589 and also, thank you!
Take care Sophie. Here’s to 2025
@@tanyam6197 thank you! happy 2025 to you!
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.
@@zoobee thank you for the poem! i read it as a teen, and it was a good reminder 🩵
Adding Lydia Davis to my 2025 tbr*
Bonne année à toi chérie Sophie, prends bien soin de toi, bisous!
@@TheLinguistsLibrary bonne année à toi! 💖 j’ai hâte de savoir c’que tu penseras des essais de davis
You are terribly cute everyday.
@@achunaryan3418 thank you!
👏👏👏❤
@@stonefree67 🤗💖