Britta Böhler | Reading Goals 2023 Update @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Let’s chat about how I’m doing with my reading goals in 2023, and what I plan to do in the 2nd half of the year.
#readinggoals #booktube
Reading Goals 2023: youtube.com/watch?v=b02_2Iekd7E
May check-in: youtube.com/watch?v=d-l2daFBPsA
General goals:
Goodreads Challenge
Focus on PoC-authors
Focus on translated works (fiction & nonfiction)
Specific Plans & Projects:
1001-Books By Women I Have to Read Before I Die
Have a look at my to read-shelf: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01women1001-tbr
As of mid-July: Read in 2023: 29 / Read total: 470 / To read: 531
Country Spotlight: IrishLit
- Global South / start with focus on Iran and the Caribbean
My Shelf on Goodreads: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01global-south
- 12 Classics: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01classics2023
- Favorite Presses: Feminist Press & Virago Press
Readathons:
* Victober
* Nonfiction November
Booktube Prize: booktubeprize.org
Women’s Prize for Fiction: womensprizeforfiction.co.uk
Book Naturalists Book Club
Channels and people mentioned:
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Booktubeprize @BookTubePrize
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Doris @alldbooks9165
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 how I’m doing with my reading goals in 2023, and what I plan to do in the 2nd half of the year.
#readinggoals #booktube
Reading Goals 2023: youtube.com/watch?v=b02_2Iekd7E
May check-in: youtube.com/watch?v=d-l2daFBPsA
General goals:
Goodreads Challenge
Focus on PoC-authors
Focus on translated works (fiction & nonfiction)
Specific Plans & Projects:
1001-Books By Women I Have to Read Before I Die
Have a look at my to read-shelf: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01women1001-tbr
As of mid-July: Read in 2023: 29 / Read total: 470 / To read: 531
Country Spotlight: IrishLit
- Global South / start with focus on Iran and the Caribbean
My Shelf on Goodreads: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01global-south
- 12 Classics: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01classics2023
- Favorite Presses: Feminist Press & Virago Press
Readathons:
* Victober
* Nonfiction November
Booktube Prize: booktubeprize.org
Women’s Prize for Fiction: womensprizeforfiction.co.uk
Book Naturalists Book Club
Channels and people mentioned:
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Booktubeprize @BookTubePrize
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Doris @alldbooks9165
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
