Britta Böhler | Five Fav's: Strong Women @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
#RoeVWade
Now that the US Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, feminist books are more important than ever. Here are some (more or less) recent fav’s:
1. Miriam Toews, Women Talking (2018): goodreads.com/book/show/37859267-women-talking
2. Anne-Marie Crowhurst, The Illumination of Ursula Flight (2018): goodreads.com/book/show/37546378-the-illumination-of-ursula-flight
3. Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/43413011-the-bass-rock
4. Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/58203799-the-bread-the-devil-knead
5. Aimee Wall, We, Jane (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56609271-we-jane
The Jane Collective: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Collective
My friend Rebecca Gomperts’ Women on Waves: womenonwaves.org/en
Five fav's #1: youtube.com/watch?v=fn03uL_aqx4&t=5s
Supreme Court Decision Dobbs v. Jackson: supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf
Find me elsewhere:
website: brittaboehler.com
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
facebook: facebook.com/britta.boehler1
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler
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 on 30 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
#RoeVWade
Now that the US Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, feminist books are more important than ever. Here are some (more or less) recent fav’s:
1. Miriam Toews, Women Talking (2018): goodreads.com/book/show/37859267-women-talking
2. Anne-Marie Crowhurst, The Illumination of Ursula Flight (2018): goodreads.com/book/show/37546378-the-illumination-of-ursula-flight
3. Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/43413011-the-bass-rock
4. Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/58203799-the-bread-the-devil-knead
5. Aimee Wall, We, Jane (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56609271-we-jane
The Jane Collective: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Collective
My friend Rebecca Gomperts’ Women on Waves: womenonwaves.org/en
Five fav's #1: youtube.com/watch?v=fn03uL_aqx4&t=5s
Supreme Court Decision Dobbs v. Jackson: supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf
Find me elsewhere:
website: brittaboehler.com
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
facebook: facebook.com/britta.boehler1
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler
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 on 30 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
