Britta Böhler | Recent Reads on Sunday: 8 May 2022 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Writing your life, paint the sky, swim in the water and more… Let’s chat about the books that I have read / am currently reading / am about to start.

Finished
Cathy Rentzenbrink, Write It All Down (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/59046203-write-it-all-down

Also read:
BTP / Quarterfinals / Translated Fiction Group B:
BTP channel @BookTubePrize
BTP website: booktubeprize.org/quarterfinals.html
Robert’s channel: @Robert.Sheard

Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable, transl. from the French by Sandra Smith (2021 / 2020): goodreads.com/book/show/56197486-inseparable

Laurent Binet, Civilizations, transl. from the French by Sam Taylor (2021 / 2019): goodreads.com/book/show/54345837-civilisations

Gianrico Carofiglio, Three O-Clock in the Morning, transl. from the Italian by Howard Curtis (2021 / 2017): goodreads.com/book/show/54110128-three-o-clock-in-the-morning

David Grossman, More Than I Love My Life. transl. from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen (2021 / 2019): goodreads.com/book/show/55894188-more-than-i-love-my-life

Zülfü Levanelli, Disquiet, transl. from the Turkish by Brendan Freely (2021 / 2017): goodreads.com/book/show/55052802-disquiet

Pajtim Statovci, Bolla, transl. from the Finnish by David Hackston (2021 / 2019): goodreads.com/book/show/55842786-bolla

Currently reading:
Elizabeth Kolbert, Under the White Sky (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/55298293-under-a-white-sky
Buddyread with Heidi @myreadinglife8816
#Springathon 9- 22 May / Prompts: Diversity, Sustainability, Connectivity, Activity
Announcement video’s:
Doris: youtube.com/watch?v=etQY7VPiivw&t=22s
Heidi: youtube.com/watch?v=6oAalE4Uf4E

Nina Mingya Powles, Small Bodies of Water (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/55404464-small-bodies-of-water
#Springathon #BookNaturalists #memoir

About to start:
Anna Quin, Three (1966): goodreads.com/book/show/362210.Three
Buddyread with Kathleen @KathleenAnnBooks and Adam (on IG): instagram.com/mementomoriadam/?hl=en

Natsuo Kirino, Out, transl. from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder (2005/1997): goodreads.com/book/show/25365.Out
#1.001 Women
Buddread with Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH

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