Britta Böhler | RecentReads on Sunday: 24 July 2022 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded July 2022 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Let’s chat about my recent reads!

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

And two re-reads:
Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet / Wayfarer #1 (2014): goodreads.com/book/show/25201920-the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet

Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit / Wayfarer #2 (2016): goodreads.com/book/show/30965619-a-closed-and-common-orbit

Still Reading
Kerri ni Dochartaigh (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/60065420-thin-places
#BookNaturalists

Started:
Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha (1953): goodreads.com/book/show/225754.Maud_Martha
#1001Women #Buddyread

Sujata Massey, The Widows of Malabar Hill / Perveen Mistry #1 (2018): goodreads.com/book/show/35133064-the-widows-of-malabar-hill
#1001Women #Buddyread

Gwendoline Riley, My Phantoms (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/61070988-my-phantoms

About to start / reread
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847): goodreads.com/book/show/15994537-wuthering-heights
#Readalong

Channels mentioned
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Doris @alldbooks9165
Adam, on IG: instagram.com/mementomoriadam/?hl=en
Stephanie @timetoread1795
Terri, on IG: instagram.com/territalksbooks/?hl=en
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