Britta Böhler | RecentReads on Sunday: 28 May 2023 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Yes, I'm back! Let’s chat about the books I have read recently.
#amreading #bookreviews

Finished:
Janina Ramirez, Femina (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/58468792-femina
#1001Women #nonfiction #buddyread

Lea Ypi, Free (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/60099892-free
#nonfiction #memoir

Nawal El Saadawi, The Hidden Face of Eve, transl. from the Arabic by sheriff Hetata (1980 / 1977): goodreads.com/book/show/26153567-the-hidden-face-of-eve
#1001Women #nonfiction #buddyread

Still reading:
Elizabeth Bishop, One Art / Selected Letters, edited by Robert Giroux (1995): goodreads.com/book/show/125225.One_Art
#1001Women #letters

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (2003): goodreads.com/book/show/33917.The_Namesake
#bookclub

Started
Elizabeth Taylor, Blaming (1976): goodreads.com/book/show/647123.Blaming
#1001Women #ViragoPress #buddyread

1001 Books I have to read:
My Goodreads-shelf: goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01women1001

As of 28 May, 2023:
Unread: 538
Read: 463

People & channels mentioned
Mel @Melanie Martin
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Kathleen @KathleenAnnBooks
Steve @saintdonoghue
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH

Connect with me:
twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler

The name of the channel (‘The Second Shelf’) was inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's book, 'The Second Sex'. And it was the title of an article by Meg Wolitzer 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:
Fiction: De juiste houding (2021) / only available in Dutch: https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20juiste%20houding-T717.php

Nonfiction: De goede advocaat (2017) / nonfiction / only available in Dutch: http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php

Fiction: The Decision (2015): hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
In the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01
also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Danish, Greek, Hebrew and Turkish

Nonfiction: Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004) / only available in Dutch: https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/crisis-in-de-rechtstaat/

Nonfiction: De zwerftocht van een leider (2000) / only available in Dutch: https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/de-zwerftocht-van-een-leider/

Crime fiction, 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

also available in German:
- 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

and in Dutch:
- Heldhaftig (2012)
- Vastberaden (2014)
- Barmhartig (2016)
https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/auteur/britta-bolt/