Britta Böhler | 1.001 Books You Need to Read Before You Die! @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Let’s chat about my progress with the 1.001 books-list and the books I chose for June.
The project was inspired by Sandy @MsReadsAlot
My Goodreads-shelf: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01women1001
As of July 1, 2022:
Unread: 598
Read: 403
Read in June: 5 / total in 2022: 30
Read in June:
1 Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974): goodreads.com/book/show/12527.Pilgrim_at_Tinker_Creek
This was also the June pick of the Book Naturalists Bookclub
2 Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows, transl. from the Spanish by Frances Riddle (2021 / 2007): goodreads.com/book/show/56802275-elena-knows
3 Edna O’Brien, The Country Girls (1960): goodreads.com/book/show/517061.The_Country_Girls
4 Anna Kavan, Ice (1967): goodreads.com/book/show/636223.Ice
Ha, I completely forgot to talk about this one, sorry!!! See for more info on the book: youtube.com/watch?v=gV4lP_zhalQ&t=5s
Review starts at 8:38
5 Jessie Redmon Fauset, Plum Bun (1929): goodreads.com/book/show/19971063-plum-bun
July picks:
1 Mahnaz Afkhami, Women in Exile (1994): goodreads.com/book/show/2683588-women-in-exile
2 Caryl Churchill, Cloud 9 (1979): goodreads.com/book/show/240250.Cloud_9
3 Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905): goodreads.com/book/show/52511149-the-scarlet-pimpernel
4 Nathacha Appanah, Waiting for Tomorrow, transl. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan (2018/2015): goodreads.com/book/show/37804537-waiting-for-tomorrow
Channels mentioned:
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Courtney @CourtneyFerriter
Connect with me:
Goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/on-the-rules-of-literary-fiction-for-men-and-women.html?_r=1
I also wrote some books:
New novel – published in Dutch December 2020:
De juiste houding: https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20juiste%20houding-T717.php
The Decision (2015): hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01
Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php
as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt), The Posthumus Mysteries:
- Lonely Graves (2014)
- Lives Lost (2015)
- Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
hodder.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=OyxVSj8qaz8LdzSTmFvOZFbcgK5hHe5EsnGIqAwZPIsQ/c8OEdhES6cW
and for German readers:
- Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
- Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
- Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
hoffmann-und-campe.de/autoren-info/britta-bolt
Let’s chat about my progress with the 1.001 books-list and the books I chose for June.
The project was inspired by Sandy @MsReadsAlot
My Goodreads-shelf: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01women1001
As of July 1, 2022:
Unread: 598
Read: 403
Read in June: 5 / total in 2022: 30
Read in June:
1 Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974): goodreads.com/book/show/12527.Pilgrim_at_Tinker_Creek
This was also the June pick of the Book Naturalists Bookclub
2 Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows, transl. from the Spanish by Frances Riddle (2021 / 2007): goodreads.com/book/show/56802275-elena-knows
3 Edna O’Brien, The Country Girls (1960): goodreads.com/book/show/517061.The_Country_Girls
4 Anna Kavan, Ice (1967): goodreads.com/book/show/636223.Ice
Ha, I completely forgot to talk about this one, sorry!!! See for more info on the book: youtube.com/watch?v=gV4lP_zhalQ&t=5s
Review starts at 8:38
5 Jessie Redmon Fauset, Plum Bun (1929): goodreads.com/book/show/19971063-plum-bun
July picks:
1 Mahnaz Afkhami, Women in Exile (1994): goodreads.com/book/show/2683588-women-in-exile
2 Caryl Churchill, Cloud 9 (1979): goodreads.com/book/show/240250.Cloud_9
3 Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905): goodreads.com/book/show/52511149-the-scarlet-pimpernel
4 Nathacha Appanah, Waiting for Tomorrow, transl. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan (2018/2015): goodreads.com/book/show/37804537-waiting-for-tomorrow
Channels mentioned:
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Courtney @CourtneyFerriter
Connect with me:
Goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/on-the-rules-of-literary-fiction-for-men-and-women.html?_r=1
I also wrote some books:
New novel – published in Dutch December 2020:
De juiste houding: https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20juiste%20houding-T717.php
The Decision (2015): hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01
Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php
as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt), The Posthumus Mysteries:
- Lonely Graves (2014)
- Lives Lost (2015)
- Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
hodder.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=OyxVSj8qaz8LdzSTmFvOZFbcgK5hHe5EsnGIqAwZPIsQ/c8OEdhES6cW
and for German readers:
- Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
- Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
- Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
hoffmann-und-campe.de/autoren-info/britta-bolt
