Britta Böhler | RecentReads on Sunday: 20 February 2022 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Let’s chat about the books I finished / am reading / started / will start.

Finished
Paulina Bren, Hotel Barbizon - The Hotel That Set Women Free (2021):
goodreads.com/book/show/54304210-the-barbizon
#1.001Women
Buddyead with Heidi @myreadinglife8816 and Kim@MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH

Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls (2019): goodreads.com/book/show/51470258-city-of-girls

Started
Iris Murdoch, Nuns and Soldiers (1980):
goodreads.com/book/show/907690.Nuns_and_Soldiers
Buddyread with Adam @Mememtomoriadam on IG:
instagram.com/mementomoriadam/?hl=en and Kathleen @KathleenAnnBooks

Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/56036276-a-snake-falls-to-earth
#YoungAdult
Book Cougars on Goodreads: goodreads.com/group/show/247296-book-cougars
Book Cougars Blog & Podcast bookcougars.com/blog-1

About to start:
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation / Essays (1966): goodreads.com/book/show/6335913-against-interpretation-and-other-essays
#AuthorSpotlight 2022: Susan Sontag

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is A Body of Water / First Woman (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/55678464-a-girl-is-a-body-of-water
#Invisible Cities / February: Uganda
#BHM

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