Britta Böhler | RecentReads on Sunday: 27 August @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Let’s chat about my recent reads! And my progress with the 30 Books in 30 days-challenge
#amreading #bookreviews #30booksin30days

Finished
Maja Lunde, The Last Wild Horses, transl. from the Norwegian by Diane Oatley (2022 / 2019): goodreads.com/book/show/58142533-the-last-wild-horses
#scifi

Michelle Gallen, Factory Girls (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/59892267-factory-girls
#buddyread #IrishLit

Ursula Le Guin, The Farthest Shore / Earthsea Cycle #3 (1974): goodreads.com/book/show/19248602-the-farthest-shore
#buddyread #fantasy

The last three books:
Susan Sontag, On Women (2023): goodreads.com/book/show/60827532-on-women
#buddyread #nonfiction

James Tiptree Jr., Her Smoke Will Rise Forever (1990): goodreads.com/book/show/20757094-her-smoke-rose-up-forever
#buddyread #scifi #1001Women

Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living (2018): goodreads.com/book/show/40099413-the-cost-of-living
#nonfiction #memoir

People / channels mentioned:
Adam on IG: instagram.com/mementomoriadam/?hl=en
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
Kathleen @KathleenAnnBooks
Terri @MsTerriB

Find me elsewhere:
website: brittaboehler.com
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
facebook: facebook.com/britta.boehler1
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler

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 on 30 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