Week in my life vlog: studying & flâneuserie

[@yenasung]

Damn that operatic “happy birthday” 😍

[@bibliosophie]

ha ha we are an obnoxious but impressive breed…

[@kiranreader]

the purple hair is GIVING!!!

[@bibliosophie]

🕺🏼💜

[@casskrug]

hope you’re feeling better!! that elkin sounds interesting, i think it’s available from my library so i’ll have to put a hold on it!! love the way she mixes the personal with the historical. a life of one’s own!!! i’m due for a reread of that one i think. i was really affected by it when i read it last year. i do feel like i had a bit of a harder time with the writers that i haven’t read anything from yet

[@bibliosophie]

it makes sense that the writers whose work you knew resonated more with you. i’ve read works from all the authors she talks about, but i do think that the women i’m currently diving deeper into - morrison and beauvoir, for instance - were more interesting to me

[@TheDiscoKingOfficial]

Week in the life of a trivia winner!! Love the hair!

[@bibliosophie]

thank you thank you! week in my life videos are a look into how i stay sharp for online trivia 🦾

[@nathansnook]

am not surprised that you won at trivia! and THE HAIR! i know it's been said before, but it is truly radiant. this was perfect as i'm also meh-ing through spring with an awful flu. wishing you more sunshine and reading outside love

[@bibliosophie]

awww yr faith in my trivia prowess warms me (i def did not think i would do well bc i am afraid of games and competition) and i’m ALWAYS happy to get hair compliments :)

[@thelefthandedreader6632]

Oh I’m so glad to be reminded of the Joanna Biggs book. I had it out before but didn’t get into it. I felt the same way though…I was in the mood for some at some times. My Face For TheWorld to See remains one of my favorite bits of writing and I don’t know that I can even exp,Ann that entirely. Here’s to some more basking in the Spring sun. ❤❤❤

[@bibliosophie]

ya, the hayes left me in a very weird and intrigued place. i actually took out the two other novels of his that circle around this same story from the library yesterday. don’t know when i’ll get to them, but a door has def been opened for me there i definitely think you’ll like that joanna biggs!

[@rebareads]

Really enjoyed this, as always :) congrats on getting through your test!!! What an incredible accomplishment. Happy the sun came out for you by the end of the video. You deserved it!! ☀️

[@bibliosophie]

the sun honestly felt like a magnificent gift when it finally came! was very much what i needed (and now i need mooore)

[@kiranreader]

the lauren elkin book sounds so interesting!! i listened to the Joanna Biggs book a few months ago and found it interesting how biggs would look to these women's lives to inform her owns but similarly there were def some sections that i preferred over other

[@bibliosophie]

ooh! which authors did you like most in the biggs? i think liking one versus another may have more to do with individual reader/life than the sections themselves

[@DogEaredMusings]

Hope you are feeling better!!

[@bibliosophie]

health-wise, yes! thanks 🖤

[@NerdyNurseReads]

I love the hair!!!!!

[@bibliosophie]

thank youuuu 👾

[@christinehopkinsconnelly5726]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who didn't feel the earthquake! I was also in movement - walking home. What an odd day that was!

[@bibliosophie]

not a fan of earthquakes? did you feel the aftershock? (i didn’t even know there had been a perceivable one!)

[@christinehopkinsconnelly5726]

@@bibliosophie haha is anyone a fan of them? I did feel one of the aftershocks that happened in the early evening. It felt like the subway rumbling through.

[@bibliosophie]

@@christinehopkinsconnelly5726 ha, fair

[@MJ-in-Canada]

You had me at flâneuserie.😀

[@bibliosophie]

😁 it’s important business

[@nofskiepatofskie]

let's goooo

[@bibliosophie]

🐎

[@aleksismil]

When I lived and traveled around different Asian countries l was told by different people native to those states to be careful where I walk by myself. I had friends in China not allow me to walk by myself home at night and was also told by friends in Cambodia to be careful when taking rides late at night or early in the morning (only later I found out that gang rape in Cambodia is very common among young men as a form of initiation into adulthoo). I thought they were overreacting and didn't wasn't really careful about these things and because I didn't really believe that these things would happen until it eventually did happen. On my last trip while traveling, I was physically groped in the middle of the day by Vietnamese bike taxi driver, while other drivers laughed. It really left a sour taste in my mouth.

[@bibliosophie]

i imagine it did - i’m sorry! i tend to (willfully) take for granted my physical safety in cities, but of course that’s absolutely not universal. and that’s also a major hindrance to flâneuserie. elkin mostly delves into the city planning limitations (and her general aesthetic distaste) when it comes to her arrival in tokyo, but she does allude to safety in some other sections

[@blueriver6751]

hi i am feeling like im missing out in romantic love, anything do u want to recommend about this yearning(also like queer yearning) maybe something with introspection and beautiful writing. I really love bluets. Thank youu i really love watching your videos.lots of luv here from nepal!

[@bibliosophie]

i love this question, and i’d really love to film a video on this topic at some point. until then, some ideas: Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson (1986) Vilette, Charlotte Brontë (1853) Boulder, Eva Baltasar (trans. Julia Sanchez) (2020) A Minor Chorus, Billy-Ray Belcourt (2022) The Seas, Samantha Hunt (2004) Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid (1990)