January book hauls & reading plans

New French releases! Library goodies! Gifts! Buddy reads!

Books:
Notre si chère vieille dame auteur by Anne Serre (2022)
Un chien à ma table by Claudie Hunzinger (2022)
Performance by Simon Liberati (2022)
Vivre vite by Brigitte Giraud (2022)
La vie clandestine by Monica Sabolo (2022)
Que reviennent ceux qui sont loin by Pierre Adrian (2022)
Écrire la vie: Collection Quarto (Gallimard) by Annie Ernaux (2011)
Instants/Augenblicke ed. by Claudine Delphis (1991)
Plaisir poétique et plaisir musculaire : Essai sur l’évolution des techniques poétiques by André Spire (1949)
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti (2022)
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh (2022)
New Names for Lost Things by Noor Unnahar (2021)
Magnolia, 木蘭, Nina Mingya Powles (2020)
Permafrost by Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanches) (2017)
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante (trans. Anne Goldstein) (2021)
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector (trans. Stefan Tobler) (1973)
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector (trans. Idea Novey) (1964)
Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker (1962)
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (2016)
Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles (1994)

People:
@seesararead
@jameskatie
@nathansnook
@benjaminjournal

StoryGraph: @sdelphis

[benjaminjournal]

Very excited for our Chelsea Girls buddy read … I also opened it up a few years ago and actually didn’t get on well with it but I look forward to coming to it as a different reader this time. Having you and Nathan to talk to about it is a huge plus.

[radiantchristina]

There are 4 books in that lispector collection that make up a whole face 🤗

[theyingyang]

I feel like your hair is different in each video and I love that for you! Especially love this white…

[nathansnook]

all the love for Lispector! can’t wait to help you complete her face through covers! Haha

[jameskatie]

so many good books! i got particularly excited when you held up permafrost and in the margins at the same time, BRILLIANT books. i feel like you will really, really enjoy permafrost x

[SavidgeReads]

Fabulous selection of books. Loved the sound of ‘Old Dear’. I need to read Annie Ernaux this year. I Lapvona. See if the mood takes you. Lispector is an author I want to get to this year too. I just got her chunkster short story collection to try her words. It’s huge!

[wicebittten]

if it's helpful, lapvona was my favorite moshfegh and I've read all her books besides mcglue and homesick. it was very different from her other books so if you're a bit burnt out on her style don't let that completely turn you away from it, she sticks with her ironic and blunt voice but its not following some tortured woman. all the characters and dynamics of lapvona were so interesting. and since the language isn't dense it's a pretty quick read

[Herstory]

I enjoyed this haul. I’ll have to give Lapvona a read. Seems interesting and you’re like the fifth booktuber to suggest/want to read it 😅 btw I love your shirt.