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Noting the Practice reference 🥰 Thank you for this discovery Sophie!

muito gatos os dois, tão de parabens

What a library!!!

I feel like you owe some people at least $100 for all those books recs. Some people have a hard time reading books from the library! $120 should be enough ☺️

You look like a Bene Gesserit priestess 🕊️✨💫

“I like it. I truly find no fault in it. And I can’t really quite get into it.” A line from Godard’s next Truffaut. The beautiful mug is an Annie Lennox via the Robert Palmer video directed by Fellini. Less diaphanous? Are you sure? 😑

Hope you are doing ok..☀️

Fernando Pessoa in the form of Bernardo Soares is a hard read, but it's a very good bed table book and open it up occasionally and read a bit. He's a national teasure here in my country. And I'd love to one day make a not so artistic movie based on him and his heteronyms. I have to say, love your new look, but it's totally parcial. In my early movies I always tried to totally cut my actresses hair. Not always sucessful, I have to say :) P.S.: Great video, great editing.

i decided to really commit to nonfiction november this year - the right to sex is on my list to get to before the end of the month! this is such a great list as always

age of loneliness is going on my tbr, sounds challenging but also necessary right now. the shaved head looks so good on you!! loved hearing your thoughts on scaffolding, that was a really enjoyable one to me. much love to you sophie <3

oooh i haven’t seen anyone do this tag yet, such a thoughtful concept!! szabo has been on my tbr for FAR too long ugh

I just bought Tiny Moons and bumped Entangled Life up my owned TBR list. Thank you

I love you ❤️

I know your head shave was enforced by cancer but it looks very good

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You have a nice head.

Have you listened to this video for about 10 seconds starting at the 7:00 mark. Or is it just on my computer. You start talking like a chipmunk.

a few years ago, Sophie. I was moving house. And I looked at my book collection, my library, and felt overwhelmed. I had about 500 books, and had carried them around with me for twenty plus years. It included many books I had never read, but that I had collected from charity shops that we have here in England. Not sure if you have them in America, but every high street has charity shops which always have a book section, and I'd bought so many over the years. I was overwhelmed with the effort of moving home, and suddenly all these books felt like burden upon my back and upon my soul. Instead of taking them. I unburdened myself of my library, and sold my shelves. I took the books to various charity shops to be re-read by others. I kept my Shakespeare collections, my anthology of Philip Larkin's poetry, and about ten novels I loved for sentimental reasons. I have kept my library since then minimalist. If I read a novel, buy a novel, I treat it like a night at the pub, where I will spend the price of a few books on a few drinks of an evening out, enjoy the novel and then pass it on, for someone else to read, or to the charity shop. I basically have a rule now. I own one book shelf, and nothing more than what fits on there is what I will own. Right now its about three quarters full. It feels nice, lighter, and I feel freer to read too, in a strange way

I just found your channel yesterday, and I am really taken by the way you present the books, the synopses, your reaction and analysis. And we have similar tastes in books. I'm looking forward to catching up with your older videos and anticipating the ones to come.

I’d added some of these to my TBR 🩵🌟

Phenomenal selection! Many of these I've not read. I'm glad you pushed through the intimidation of filming (I know the feeling).

Girl, you had me at Maximalist, LOL.

this is such a great list you put together sophie! glad you kept recording because there are so many on this list i need to get to. so this was a great reminder & also inspo because i want to participate in non fic nov!

out of context and a bit shallow, but the new style actually looks very pretty. we are hoping that you get regular phases of relief and wish you strength for the intense times. Also, very Interesting collection of books i think.

Sister Outsider is one of my core texts. One that's had immeasurable influence on me. I recommend it to everyone.

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 💜

for anyone curious, here's a list of the books mentioned that have been translated to brazilian portuguese (as of november 2024): Pesado - Kiese Laymon (2022) Garotas Brancas - Hilton Als (2023) O direito ao sexo: Feminismo no século vinte e um - Amia Srinivasan (2021) 24/7: Capitalismo tardio e os fins do sono - Jonathan Crary (2016) Metazoa: A vida animal e o despertar da mente - Peter Godfrey-Smith (2022) A trama da vida: como os fungos constroem o mundo - Merlin Sheldrake (2021) Para uma moral da ambiguidade - Simone de Beauvoir (2023) Pele Negra, Máscaras Brancas - Franz Fanon (2020) Notas de um filho nativo - James Baldwin (2020) Contra a interpretação: e outros ensaios - Sunsan Sontag (2020) Irmã Outsider: ensaios e conferências - Audre Lorde (2019) O acontecimento - Annie Ernaux (2022)

You will get through this! I love your channel Sophie. You encourage me to stretch myself in the content I read and think about. I love hearing you speak, your thoughts are so inspiring. Thank you Sophie, you are about the same age as my now grown children, from this Mamma 's heart to yours ..... a big hug and healing light ❤️

What a great list! I read Sontag Chee, Ernaux and Laymon, loved them. Heavy is one of the most beautiful writings with such a heavy story, it really moved me. It somewhat reminds me of a Tom Waits' quote: "I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things." I have Sister Outsider and Notes of a Native Son on my shelf waiting for the right moment.

I'm agog at these recommendations!!! Elite taste as always; cannot wait to request some of these at my local library!

JUST WOW

once again, a stellar sexy list. just got my hands on Against Interpretation and might have to do it for november!

Cancer made a free man out of me. Keep it up! Going to peruse your book recommendations, thank you! And speaking of Pessoa - check The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Jose Saromago 😊

Thank you so much for these recommendations, I appreciate it so much. E x

I own most of these books and have yet to read a lot of them. Good reminder.

I loved "How to read now". I was so happy to read someone who is as angry about the state of affairs in this world.

Soooo many fab sounding recommendations here. Thick and Other Essays I’ve had on my periphery for a while. I can’t believe I’ve not read any Alexander Chee, I really need to rectify that. Entangled Life has intrigued me for ages, I just didn’t know if a whole book of I loooooved A History of My Brief Body, you’ve reminded me I need to read his short story collection.

I’ve really meant to get to the Alexander Chee. It sounds intriguing. And the Ben Lerner. I’m looking for that at my library! Ooh Because Internet sounds right up my alley! I scored. My library system has both. 👏👏👏Happening remains my favorite Ernaux.

I have just begun to emerge from a flux of a few years where I stopped reading fiction and only read non fiction, mostly history books. Its good to see you doing so well, and everlastingly reading and thinking x

I've selected so many books i'm going to read from this episode. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if you kept your new look after your recovery, it reveals so much power, lightness and openness.

Good luck

Bravo for keeping going so often to get the video done. I think I need another life time to read the quality books recommended by you - so much here I want to read.

Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag has been on my tbr forever, this video is my cue to read it. I should also like read de Beauvoir, preferably in French--is her prose 'easy'?

tiny moons sounds like what i wanted crying in h mart to be. might need to pick up the ben learner essay--i cant get into poetry to save myself

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!

Wishing you a full recovery. I have two dear friends that were diagnosed with it. Both have been cancer free for many, many years and counting. 🫶🕊️

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I am so sorry to hear your news. Sending you so much love xxxxx