Vlog: New York, London, Bretagne & slow reading
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- I didn't do a lot of reading for 2 weeks, but the reading I did do was good!
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books:
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann (1971)
Parade by Rachel Cusk (2024)
Second Place by Rachel Cusk (2021)
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I bought Malina but have not started it yet!
Don’t feel guilt around how much you are reading! There is a time for reading and time for exploring and being with friends and family.
I love the way you are doing your book club through substack because I don’t have the capacity to keep up with a physical, rigid month to month book club right now but want to read your thoughts when I’ve had a chance to read the book for myself.
ooh yes! i actually hadn’t even thought about the fact that the substack means people can “read along” asynchronously!
thanks for the kind words 🤍
Gorgeous vlog as always. I soooo wish I had been able to see you in London. I left as you were arriving it seems. Next time, please! Still love you as much as ever… love you more every video. I’m here for the bookish and non bookish chat and the STUNNING snapshots 🤍
@@SavidgeReads thank youuu 🤍
and i’ll definitely let you know if and when i return to london! :)
"maybe i'm just too broken at this point.." -- me at any given point in time
i liked how you phrased narrative 'I' as "staging and a platform" - if her main goal is the removal of character, this makes a lot of sense. i think Cass touched upon it where after criticism of the publication of Aftermath, something shifted in tone and narrative. and i felt this shift when moving from the trilogy into Second Place. she's abstracting character more and more so. it's post-post-Cusk!!! i'm currently in the middle of Altman's Nashville and there's this thing that he does with character in that there is no central character, but rather a working cast not really speaking to each other but at each other to form this notion of through-line theme-ing.
also Roisin!!!
ya, parade is constructed like a multiple perspective, sweeping ensemble story à la altman, with additional authorial voice(s) and tense/person shifts. the result is a kind of scrapbook of what storytelling can be.
i really don’t find it confusing. i quickly realized that there were multiple gs, and just went with it
Rachel cusk is my favourite author as it makes me come away thinking.
Second place - line Artist "says i dont see you" reason he doesn't want to paint her confirms how she feels . Today older women feel invisible not seen. That line was like knife in my heart , she is women who wanted to be seen as person not wife mother etc.... love how she mixes Art world into writing.
Parade - I was left thinking what the artist is thinking , seeking , sitter and view when painting , how women artist left holding baby trying to hold on her art yet male free to express his art. Also , How lack love given growing up affects adulthood to be able to accept and show love.
I Love books that leave you thinking , Rachel Cusk as an author she doesn't have to explain in printed words clearly black and white meaning depth book ie if you get it , you love her work or those who don't understand will not enjoy reading her work .
I think Rachel Cusk is improving with each novel , importantly how she feels as women without self pity ie the normal menopause poor old me etc.or I cant find or be loved or career's failing due to having family which i find in books . Rachel does this without spelling it out like looking at painting not everybody likes or seeing the same art .
i’m definitely enjoying the focus on art in her two most recent books - there’s been some of this previously, but i like this focus as an extension of her thought palette (pun semi-intended)
Hi, Sophie, I am one of your book club people. I am Gala there (it is my actual first name). First of all, it is perfectly OK (at least for me) that you do not publish too often. It gives me a bit of a breather to keep up. I am also reading slowly, but not necessarily as meticulously as you do. Just too many other things going on at the moment. I started with an e-book and now got myself a hard copy in both English and German, as I want to be able to bookmark and annotate in the book and to go back to certain sections which I find very inconvenient to do in an e-book. I enjoy my experience with Malina, but at times my attention wanders off. I am just starting Chapter 2. It's page 143. A very interesting shift in time and place there. You'd love it.
@@thisisveryannoying hi gala! i’m probably going to start the second section tomorrow (i have about 10 pages of the first left), and i’m looking forward to it. i think it gets more overtly hellish/nightmarish? we’ll see. thanks for joining me here and on substack!
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Love the New York, London, Bretagne vlogging mix! And yes we love you. and that last wave!
travelling and being pensive 🦞🖤
I enjoyed listening to your thoughts on Parade very much. You have an ability to accept art as it is, while I sometimes try to wrestle it into submission. Lovely to see you back in Bretagne for the summer, and even a cameo appearance from your mother (I think?). E x
that is indeed a cameo from my mother!
yr comment has got me thinking - i think it’s true, despite my simultaneous love of interpretation/analysis. now i’m wondering: when is analysis wrestling something into submission, and when is it allowing a piece to teach you its language?
@@bibliosophie Yes! I too have been thinking about that question ever since I wrote the comment.
Also, I was very much hoping that you wouldn't misunderstand what I had written, because I didn't mean that you don't analyse and interpret (on the contrary!).
thank you for mentioning my video!! loved hearing the way you talked about parade!! i agree that it wasn’t confusing and love what you said about just needing to let go of the idea of the characters of g being connected. also loved the landscape writing in the second section!!
of course! you are, after all, a proper cusk head, cap and all :)
“Having coffee was a mistake” 😂 me every time
full track dropping soon ☕️😋
Bretagne looks so beautiful ❤ I loved Second Place so was great to hear a comparison with Parade. Will definitely pick it up soon. I read and loved In the Fold this year which is a very early Cusk so will be very interesting to see how she's changed as a writer. I'm hoping to read along with your next book club pick- was not organised enough for this month!
i think there’s a lot of common dna with second place, so i suspect you’ll like parade, too
i have to decide what my next book pick will be actually… 🤔
you remind me quite a bit of elizabeth debicki!!
i’ve never gotten this comparison, but i’m very flattered!
Have you seen Werner Schroeter’s fiim version of Malina?
i haven’t seen it, but i would like to once i’m done with the book. i’ve heard about it for a while. have you watched it?
@@bibliosophieYes, I have. I actually wrote a book on Werner Schroeter’s films.
@@petervalente2948 ah! excellent
It is nice video 😊 Do you have a site ?
@@HH-zb5ul thank you! my substacks are in the video description ; my artist site is sophiedelphis