Britta Böhler | RecentReads on Sunday: 16 January 2022 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Let’s chat about the books I finished / am reading / started.

Finished:
- Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes (1926) / reread: goodreads.com/book/show/52692594-lolly-willowes
#1001Women
My Goodreads shelf: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01women1001
#Rereads2022

- Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter, transl. from the French by Modupé Bodé-Thomas (1989 / 1980): goodreads.com/book/show/151374.So_Long_a_Letter
#1001Women

Still Reading:
- Ursula Le Guin, The Complete Orsinia (LoA Edition 2016): goodreads.com/book/show/28186399-the-complete-orsinia
Buddyread with Adam @MementoMori: instagram.com/mementomoriadam/?hl=en

- Maria Tatar, The Heroine With 1.001 Faces (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56769530-the-heroine-with-1001-faces

- Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us (1951): goodreads.com/book/show/542766.The_Sea_Around_Us
Christmas present from Heidi @MyReadingLife: youtube.com/channel/UCftcdJ7T0cQaz2DIV9abD6w
Book Naturalists: instagram.com/booknaturalists/?hl=en

Started:
- Louise Erdrich, The Sentence (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/59454606-the-sentence
Buddyread with Terri @instagram.com/territalksbooks/?hl=en
#AuthorSpotlight2020

- Yu Miri, Tokyo, Ueno Station, transl. from the Japanese by Morgan Giles (2020 / 2014): goodreads.com/book/show/52585192-tokyo-ueno-station
Shawn @shawnbreathesbooks

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