Britta Böhler | RecentReads on Sunday: 11 July 2022 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Let’s chat about my recent reads!

Finished
Juli Berwald Life on the Rocks (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/58537334-life-on-the-rocks
#NonFiction
Trailer of Chasing Coral (on Netflix): youtube.com/watch?v=aGGBGcjdjXA

Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/59683998-how-beautiful-we-were
#BTP

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962): goodreads.com/book/show/624879.Silent_Spring
#1001Women

Currently reading
Michelle Nijhuis, Beloved Beasts (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/53404260-beloved-beasts

Nathacha Appanah, Waiting for Tomorrow, transl. from the French by Geoffrey Strachan (2018 / 2015): goodreads.com/book/show/37804537-waiting-for-tomorrow
#1001Women

Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905): goodreads.com/book/show/52511149-the-scarlet-pimpernel
#1001Women

About to start
Kerri ni Dochartaigh (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/60065420-thin-places
#BookNaturalists

Channels mentioned
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
BooktubePrize @BookTubePrize
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