Sofi, I’ve been watching your content for a while now, and I’m so grateful you introduced me to Clarice Lispector. I know a lot of people, like me, are with you on this journey. Thank you so much for this amazing content-please keep adding more!
only a few minutes in, but so grateful for your literary chats. your channel has become a point of comfort for me in the midst of graduate academia chaos. 💫💌
The knits in this video were iconic. Including the hood your grandmother knitted. Fabulous! You’ve really made me want to read The Empusium, well the witchiness, not the annoying characters. Maybe I should try Drive first. I won’t lie, GASPED when you said you’d not read any Du Maurier. Such treats ahead.
@@SavidgeReads coming from a wearer of many fabulous knits, this is great praise! i do recommend the dark weird world of tokarczuk - either book is a good start, i think
i don’t get rid of many thing and cycle in and out of clothes depending on the year, and it’s wonderful to rediscover things. was very happy to unearth three little hoods she made me !
@@thelefthandedreader6632 how’s clarice treating you? definitely recommend the empusium for you, especially since you recently read the magic mountain (right? i think?)
Omgggg the single earring! The reba winter meetup!! Immed added american bulk to my libby holds from that costco line. Ive been so enjoying these tiny book updates and it’s reminding me how great they are to get a taste of these famous writers with snippets from their lesser known yet interesting works. A Costco sample for books! Your tin of fragrance samples ❤
@@yenasung i thought of you in wearing my one long earring, and it’s your recent discussions of perfumes that inspired me to look through my various samples!
The Empusium was my first Tokarczuk. I had no idea what I was about to read and it was not at all what I expected. It was so much more! I love her writing style, attention to character/place and social commentary on the times. I also felt there were places where I was 'over' these tedious men..lol. Hope you finish..I felt she ended it well. Bought The Books of Jacob, but think I am going to Drive Your Plow next:)
i’ll definitely finish, and i’m pretty close in fact. i hear good things about the ending, so i’m curious 👀 i don’t know if i’ll ever have the courage to read books of jacob. i know it’s her masterpiece, but i am very daunted…
@@Ellen_Seokjin i think they’re very hit or miss, and i think it really depends on the reader what’s a hit and what’s a miss. i’ve been delighted by some, and just sort of underwhelmed by others. but they are very cute. i generally prefer the modern classics, but that might simply reflect my literary tastes (and also i love penguin green)
Strike, I love those earrings, think I'd love to piece my ears & feel a little extravagantly flamboyant. I've never got to Nabokov, don't know why, thanks for this spotlight. I am very drawn to compression, so (outside of poetry) love essay, short story & novella - give me 'Heart of Darkness' any day over Dickens, Trollope or Thackeray. 'Absolution': what a cover - wow! Lispector is in my immediate future, I'm getting excited, my next big adventure. Thanks for another wonderful video - a dazzling joy.
@@apoetreadstowrite i tend to love a novella, and sometimes a very very short story, but 20-30 pages is just a very difficult fiction length for me to get into. i think it’s a matter of intellectual metabolism :) i absolutely love the absolution cover, and the reissues that have come out for the whole trilogy
I really like Tsushima's writing, the haiku-ness of it, sun glitter on dark water. An Apprenticeship would be my last Lispector (of those in translation) but I have not had the energy to get in to it. Your feat inspires a second try. Your grandma's fantastic knit is giving cozy Grey Gardens.
@@TheQuietMidden an apprenticeship is one of the better novels, i think, and benefits from being read when you know a lot of her other work. it feels like a very successful and cathartic bringing together of themes from her other books
So glad you're enjoying the Tokarczuk book! I adore her, but yes, she can be intense, so I get your hesitation. I love how you’ve described the tone and am looking forward to reading it next year. Oh just got to the bit about getting annoyed with her characters 😂
@@PageTurnersWithKatja ya, in my limited experience, you have to be willing to sign up for a *vibe* with tokarczuk. i think it’s a rewarding decision to make, but you just have to be up for it
@@bibliosophie I think Territory of Light achieves a lot in very few pages - remarkable for such a slow-paced story. Its melancholic tone reflects the main character’s struggles after separation and divorce in a society that subtly stigmatises single parenting. The mother-daughter relationship is striking-deeply affecting, with moments that reveal some unintended impacts.on the child. It’s a reflective and poignant read that stays with you long after you finish. Afterward, I read up on Tsushima and noticed how her family dynamics seem to play out in her stories. If it’s not too melancholic for you, I’d recommend All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami afterward-it has a similar vibe and with a darker undercurrent 😅 That said, such heavy themes are probably why I’ve spent the last two months deeply embedded in cosy fiction! 😆
@@PageTurnersWithKatja thanks for yr thoughts! yes, that melancholy isolation and family relationships streak seems to be common to both her work and life, from what i’ve read. i read about half of all the lovers in the night but didn’t quite get on with it so dropped - i liked the solitary reflections of the first part, but less when she begins to grow a relationship. it annoyed me. i’ve contemplated going back to it
Taking at least 4 months to read clarice's short stories collections is the only way to read them 😂 it took me around 7 months to read laços de família this year, and i was enjoying it!! It's just dense, she demands a certain spirit to read her Also, the lightening in this whole video is specially beautiful!
@@claaaaaara ha ha ha too real. i’ve found i have only 2 modes reading lispector: slurping down 50-100 pages at once or setting her aside for weeks at a time
Well well well if it isn’t me having a lovely tea with the lovely Sophie! So happy we were able to make that meetup happen :) Noted on the sloggishness of Absolution 😖 I just picked it up so I can finish out the entire series. I’m determined!
@@rebareads re absolution: i think a large part of the sluggishness is on me. a lot of people have really liked the book in the context of the trilogy. i look forward to yr next new weird video (watched part of yr vlog today, so i know what’s coming 👀) re empusium/magic mountain: i think it is worth reading mann first, yes. i recommend reading that book anyway, and it’s definitely interesting to know it (and having a general sense of early 20th-c philosophy/psychology) while reading the empusium
@ oooo got it, well as you know I’m slowly working my way through so I’ll get to it when I get to it lol but I’m excited to complete the series and finish the video :) And sounds like all fantastic reasons to read Magic Mountain!
it was an absolute delight! we’ve been trying to meet up (and also with kat) for a while, but i’ve made scheduling difficult with my ever changing needy body 🖤
@@litwithkat thank you 🥺 my friend sent me a sunset lamp after i kvetched about hospital lighting, and i am now obsessed with it. i suspect it will be a feature in several winter videos lol
Better than Charlie Brown, IMO, because Charlie is very depressed, is Rudolph the red nose reindeer! I adore it. Simple landscapes, a little deer with the squeaky young voice and a big heart, and a yeti with a toothache and snow wonderful snow. Not to mentionBurl Ives singing. 🎶 ❤❄️🎄
makes me so happy to hear you enjoyed an apprenticeship - looking forward to your writing about it when it comes!! do you think the empusium would be a slog for someone that hasn’t read the magic mountain?
i recommend reading the magic mountain in general, and ideally before the empusium, but it’s not necessary. some parts of it are in my opinion a slog anyway, but it comes together well!
Do you like horror short stories? I feel similarly that it can be really tough to get into short stories somehow, but I just finished the collection "Toadstones" by Eric Williams and thought it was so rich and fun and at points very effectively creepy. Makes me a bit more inclined towards short stories. Anyway hope you're doing well! These were all very interesting to hear about :-)
I really liked The Empusium. Usually I don't read an epilogue first, but with this one, I actually would recommend it, because it helps to understand what Tokarczuk is actually doing in this book. Are you aware that all misogynistic views in this novel are paraphrases of passages by a long list of famous male authors?
@ameliareads589 yes! i read about this in a review i think? i was drawn to read the empusium in large part because i’d heard about its makeup/purpose. i wanted to see how she would stitch it all together
Big Bad Wolf: Oh you grandma knits of little hoooodie! Your basket offends me! Your door offends me! Knock it as a grandchild would do to a door! Wear BLUUUE or you won't see grandma!
@bibliosophie No way...Alright then. Knock knock. Wow, I wondered if they have a doorbell, ehem...No, I am the wolf. No, yes, I mean you are, let me send you a doorbell sticker, okay bye bye Mr. Wolf.
@literaryleila ha yes i’m quite happy to have repurposed that soap tin for perfume samples :) thanks for the channel recommendation! i didn’t know her before but watched last night and am very happy to subscribe!
Most gorgeous pirate I’ve ever seen
@@ChanelChapters 😊 arrrr
Sofi, I’ve been watching your content for a while now, and I’m so grateful you introduced me to Clarice Lispector. I know a lot of people, like me, are with you on this journey. Thank you so much for this amazing content-please keep adding more!
@@zakariadinaoui thank you! i’m so happy to read this 🤗
I adore your channel, and I love your no BS way of dealing with your cancer. Brava!
@@angelar3045 💕🥺 thank you!!
omg the booktube crossover !!! what a surprise! so happy that you got to meet Reba! ✨💌
@@nathansnook me too! you know i love a delightful crossover 💕
I enjoyed The Empusium. The final section was a whirl as it all came together. You look good as a happy plant.
i finished it a few days ago, and i really liked how it came together! it was ultimately a very satisfying experience
only a few minutes in, but so grateful for your literary chats. your channel has become a point of comfort for me in the midst of graduate academia chaos. 💫💌
@@bregowego 🥺 this is really wonderful to hear!
The knits in this video were iconic. Including the hood your grandmother knitted. Fabulous! You’ve really made me want to read The Empusium, well the witchiness, not the annoying characters. Maybe I should try Drive first. I won’t lie, GASPED when you said you’d not read any Du Maurier. Such treats ahead.
@@SavidgeReads coming from a wearer of many fabulous knits, this is great praise! i do recommend the dark weird world of tokarczuk - either book is a good start, i think
Your home looks so beautiful!
@@marja2909 thank you! 💖
You look radiant in the sunshine! 🌞 Love your content. ❤
@@valerie7918 thank you!! 🤗
why does everything that grandmas knit for us always have a purpose one day? God bless grandmas they save us constantly what did we do to deserve them
i don’t get rid of many thing and cycle in and out of clothes depending on the year, and it’s wonderful to rediscover things. was very happy to unearth three little hoods she made me !
What a round up. I really do want to get to The Empusium. I also had the same experience with Drive Your Plow. 😂And continue reading The Lispector!
@@thelefthandedreader6632 how’s clarice treating you? definitely recommend the empusium for you, especially since you recently read the magic mountain (right? i think?)
starting the video off with monday monday is such a good choice! and the lighting throughout the video is 💯💯
@@wisker12 hee thank you 😁 i was pleased with that one
Omgggg the single earring! The reba winter meetup!! Immed added american bulk to my libby holds from that costco line. Ive been so enjoying these tiny book updates and it’s reminding me how great they are to get a taste of these famous writers with snippets from their lesser known yet interesting works. A Costco sample for books! Your tin of fragrance samples ❤
@@yenasung i thought of you in wearing my one long earring, and it’s your recent discussions of perfumes that inspired me to look through my various samples!
A new video!!! yay 🎉!!
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I haven’t finished The Magic Mountain yet, but it definitely sound like I need to add The Empusium to my TBR.
i do recommend it! it makes for an interesting continuation/rethinking of that world
had never heard of this Nabokov story am very glad to hear of it
i found these three only ok, but perhaps you’ll get more out of them - my fav of the volume was the first story, “the aurelian”
The Empusium was my first Tokarczuk. I had no idea what I was about to read and it was not at all what I expected. It was so much more! I love her writing style, attention to character/place and social commentary on the times. I also felt there were places where I was 'over' these tedious men..lol. Hope you finish..I felt she ended it well. Bought The Books of Jacob, but think I am going to Drive Your Plow next:)
i’ll definitely finish, and i’m pretty close in fact. i hear good things about the ending, so i’m curious 👀
i don’t know if i’ll ever have the courage to read books of jacob. i know it’s her masterpiece, but i am very daunted…
love your bright blue nail polish!
@@SabsileT thank you! me too 😁
Thanks for reviewing these tiny little Penguin editions. I always thought their were really cute, but didn't know whether they were worth buying.
@@Ellen_Seokjin i think they’re very hit or miss, and i think it really depends on the reader what’s a hit and what’s a miss. i’ve been delighted by some, and just sort of underwhelmed by others. but they are very cute. i generally prefer the modern classics, but that might simply reflect my literary tastes (and also i love penguin green)
Great insights ! Subbed.
@@Ponnnnnyyyyyyyyyyyyyy yay! thank you, and welcome!
Strike, I love those earrings, think I'd love to piece my ears & feel a little extravagantly flamboyant. I've never got to Nabokov, don't know why, thanks for this spotlight. I am very drawn to compression, so (outside of poetry) love essay, short story & novella - give me 'Heart of Darkness' any day over Dickens, Trollope or Thackeray. 'Absolution': what a cover - wow! Lispector is in my immediate future, I'm getting excited, my next big adventure. Thanks for another wonderful video - a dazzling joy.
@@apoetreadstowrite i tend to love a novella, and sometimes a very very short story, but 20-30 pages is just a very difficult fiction length for me to get into. i think it’s a matter of intellectual metabolism :)
i absolutely love the absolution cover, and the reissues that have come out for the whole trilogy
@@apoetreadstowrite perhaps you should pierce your ears! who doesn’t want a bit of extravagance sometimes?
@@bibliosophie: Yes, I'd love it, I think. Thanks for the kind encouragement.
@@bibliosophie; I love the stuff you review & spotlight to my attention. I have some wonderful new reading paths- thanks!
Really enjoyed your review of 'The Empusium', must search this out, think I'd love it. 'A Happy Plant' - love it - bloom away!
@@apoetreadstowrite excellent! as i’m finishing it, i really do recommend it - it’s an imperfect creature, but well worth the read
@@bibliosophie: I'll have a go.
I really like Tsushima's writing, the haiku-ness of it, sun glitter on dark water. An Apprenticeship would be my last Lispector (of those in translation) but I have not had the energy to get in to it. Your feat inspires a second try. Your grandma's fantastic knit is giving cozy Grey Gardens.
@@TheQuietMidden an apprenticeship is one of the better novels, i think, and benefits from being read when you know a lot of her other work. it feels like a very successful and cathartic bringing together of themes from her other books
@@TheQuietMidden yes cosy grey gardens!! i love it
So glad you're enjoying the Tokarczuk book! I adore her, but yes, she can be intense, so I get your hesitation. I love how you’ve described the tone and am looking forward to reading it next year. Oh just got to the bit about getting annoyed with her characters 😂
Yes for the penguin short stories from Tsushima, it made me pick-up her book Territory of Light which again has a common thread to the shorts.
@@PageTurnersWithKatja ya, in my limited experience, you have to be willing to sign up for a *vibe* with tokarczuk. i think it’s a rewarding decision to make, but you just have to be up for it
@@PageTurnersWithKatja how did you find territory of light? much like you, i’m contemplating reading it
@@bibliosophie I think Territory of Light achieves a lot in very few pages - remarkable for such a slow-paced story. Its melancholic tone reflects the main character’s struggles after separation and divorce in a society that subtly stigmatises single parenting. The mother-daughter relationship is striking-deeply affecting, with moments that reveal some unintended impacts.on the child. It’s a reflective and poignant read that stays with you long after you finish. Afterward, I read up on Tsushima and noticed how her family dynamics seem to play out in her stories. If it’s not too melancholic for you, I’d recommend All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami afterward-it has a similar vibe and with a darker undercurrent 😅
That said, such heavy themes are probably why I’ve spent the last two months deeply embedded in cosy fiction! 😆
@@PageTurnersWithKatja thanks for yr thoughts! yes, that melancholy isolation and family relationships streak seems to be common to both her work and life, from what i’ve read. i read about half of all the lovers in the night but didn’t quite get on with it so dropped - i liked the solitary reflections of the first part, but less when she begins to grow a relationship. it annoyed me. i’ve contemplated going back to it
I love du Maurier, I think my favorite short-story by her is probably 'The Birds', looking to your favorites of the year video!
@@TheLinguistsLibrary added “the birds” to my tbr based on this reco!
i love your outfit with the overalls & tshirt :')
@@JemimaRose thank you!
Taking at least 4 months to read clarice's short stories collections is the only way to read them 😂 it took me around 7 months to read laços de família this year, and i was enjoying it!! It's just dense, she demands a certain spirit to read her
Also, the lightening in this whole video is specially beautiful!
@@claaaaaara ha ha ha too real. i’ve found i have only 2 modes reading lispector: slurping down 50-100 pages at once or setting her aside for weeks at a time
@@claaaaaara and thank you!
@@bibliosophie yep, that's it. there's no in between
Well well well if it isn’t me having a lovely tea with the lovely Sophie! So happy we were able to make that meetup happen :)
Noted on the sloggishness of Absolution 😖 I just picked it up so I can finish out the entire series. I’m determined!
Also! Do you think I should definitely read The Magic Mountain before reading the Empusium?
@@rebareads yayyyy
@@rebareads re absolution: i think a large part of the sluggishness is on me. a lot of people have really liked the book in the context of the trilogy. i look forward to yr next new weird video (watched part of yr vlog today, so i know what’s coming 👀)
re empusium/magic mountain: i think it is worth reading mann first, yes. i recommend reading that book anyway, and it’s definitely interesting to know it (and having a general sense of early 20th-c philosophy/psychology) while reading the empusium
@ oooo got it, well as you know I’m slowly working my way through so I’ll get to it when I get to it lol but I’m excited to complete the series and finish the video :)
And sounds like all fantastic reasons to read Magic Mountain!
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freaking out that you and reba got to meet up!!!!!!
so cute!
18:55 the lighting here with your eye liner and earrings and blue nails - perfection
it was an absolute delight! we’ve been trying to meet up (and also with kat) for a while, but i’ve made scheduling difficult with my ever changing needy body 🖤
@@litwithkat thank you 🥺 my friend sent me a sunset lamp after i kvetched about hospital lighting, and i am now obsessed with it. i suspect it will be a feature in several winter videos lol
Better than Charlie Brown, IMO, because Charlie is very depressed, is Rudolph the red nose reindeer! I adore it. Simple landscapes, a little deer with the squeaky young voice and a big heart, and a yeti with a toothache and snow wonderful snow. Not to mentionBurl Ives singing. 🎶 ❤❄️🎄
i’ve never seen it either! i didn’t grow up with a lot of christmas stuff in general, and definitely not american christmas
Christmas in America is my least favorite holiday, but I still love Rudolph☃️
@ ha ha ha i resent a lot of christmas stuff - namely bad music - but i quite like the eating and lights part of the holiday
@@bibliosophie Yes to the gorgeous lights & food!
makes me so happy to hear you enjoyed an apprenticeship - looking forward to your writing about it when it comes!! do you think the empusium would be a slog for someone that hasn’t read the magic mountain?
i recommend reading the magic mountain in general, and ideally before the empusium, but it’s not necessary. some parts of it are in my opinion a slog anyway, but it comes together well!
Do you like horror short stories? I feel similarly that it can be really tough to get into short stories somehow, but I just finished the collection "Toadstones" by Eric Williams and thought it was so rich and fun and at points very effectively creepy. Makes me a bit more inclined towards short stories. Anyway hope you're doing well! These were all very interesting to hear about :-)
typically i don’t really like horror short stories, but i’ll check out toadstones! i may like it too :)
I really liked The Empusium. Usually I don't read an epilogue first, but with this one, I actually would recommend it, because it helps to understand what Tokarczuk is actually doing in this book. Are you aware that all misogynistic views in this novel are paraphrases of passages by a long list of famous male authors?
@ameliareads589 yes! i read about this in a review i think? i was drawn to read the empusium in large part because i’d heard about its makeup/purpose. i wanted to see how she would stitch it all together
Big Bad Wolf: Oh you grandma knits of little hoooodie! Your basket offends me! Your door offends me! Knock it as a grandchild would do to a door! Wear BLUUUE or you won't see grandma!
@@karakukantsume perhaps i’m the wolf 🐺
@bibliosophie No way...Alright then. Knock knock. Wow, I wondered if they have a doorbell, ehem...No, I am the wolf. No, yes, I mean you are, let me send you a doorbell sticker, okay bye bye Mr. Wolf.
omg the knitted hood !! that is so sweet !! it always warms my heart to be wearing something hand-knitted made with such love & care
@literaryleila ha yes i’m quite happy to have repurposed that soap tin for perfume samples :)
thanks for the channel recommendation! i didn’t know her before but watched last night and am very happy to subscribe!