Britta Böhler | Midyear Tops & Flops! @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Video 504 – 3 July 2022
Let’s chat about the best and the worst of the first half of 2022, and about some new releases. (This is a heavily adapted version of the Midyear Book Freakout Tag.)
Tops
1. Best book
2. Favorite character
3. Biggest Surprise
4. Best nonfiction book
Flops
5. Worst book
6. Biggest disappointment.
New releases
7. New release I haven't read yet, but want to.
8. Most anticipated release(s) for the second half of the year.
Books mentioned, in alphabetical order
- Margaret Drabble, The Red Queen (2004): goodreads.com/book/show/1875304.The_Red_Queen
- Louise Erdrich, The Sentence (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56816904-the-sentence
- Margo Jefferson, Constructing a Nervous System (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/58231065-constructing-a-nervous-system
- Jess Kidd, The Night Ship (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/59366231-the-night-ship
And then I forgot to tell you anything about the book: it’s set in 1629 and 1989, about a ship wreck off the Australian coast and its ramifications in the 1980ies…
- Natsuo Kirino, Out, transl. from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder (2005 / 1997): goodreads.com/book/show/25365.Out?ref=bk_bet_out
- Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/58347562-the-right-to-sex
- Morowa Yejide, Creatures of Passage (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/39314725-creatures-of-passage
Channels mentioned:
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
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
Video 504 – 3 July 2022
Let’s chat about the best and the worst of the first half of 2022, and about some new releases. (This is a heavily adapted version of the Midyear Book Freakout Tag.)
Tops
1. Best book
2. Favorite character
3. Biggest Surprise
4. Best nonfiction book
Flops
5. Worst book
6. Biggest disappointment.
New releases
7. New release I haven't read yet, but want to.
8. Most anticipated release(s) for the second half of the year.
Books mentioned, in alphabetical order
- Margaret Drabble, The Red Queen (2004): goodreads.com/book/show/1875304.The_Red_Queen
- Louise Erdrich, The Sentence (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56816904-the-sentence
- Margo Jefferson, Constructing a Nervous System (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/58231065-constructing-a-nervous-system
- Jess Kidd, The Night Ship (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/59366231-the-night-ship
And then I forgot to tell you anything about the book: it’s set in 1629 and 1989, about a ship wreck off the Australian coast and its ramifications in the 1980ies…
- Natsuo Kirino, Out, transl. from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder (2005 / 1997): goodreads.com/book/show/25365.Out?ref=bk_bet_out
- Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/58347562-the-right-to-sex
- Morowa Yejide, Creatures of Passage (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/39314725-creatures-of-passage
Channels mentioned:
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
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
