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Britta Böhler | RecentReads: Sunday, 14 July 2024 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Let’s chat about my recent and current reads.
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube

Books Mentioned (in alphabetical order):
Radwa Ashour, Specters, transl. from the Arabic by Barbara Romaine (1999): goodreads.com/book/show/8296483-specters
#Translated #GlobalSouth #1001Women #buddyread

Angela Carter, Nights At the Circus (1988): goodreads.com/book/show/873920.Nights_at_the_Circus
#Unhinged #1001Women #buddyread

P.D. James, A Mind To Murder / Dalgliesh #2 (1963): goodreads.com/book/show/41086886-a-mind-to-murder
#crime #buddyread

Ursula Le Guin, The Eye of the Heron (1978): goodreads.com/book/show/37534912-the-eye-of-the-heron
#scifi #buddyread

Arcady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace / Teixcalaan #2 (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/45154547-a-desolation-called-peace
#scifi #buddyread

Gillian Rose, Love’s Work (1995): goodreads.com/book/show/7918722-love-s-work
#Nonfiction #SandysBookclub #1001Women

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

Jess Tvordi @jessicatvordi
Her book: The Schoolmaster (2024): goodreads.com/book/show/210905793-the-schoolmaster

Read along with me!
1. Three classics I want to read in the second half of 2024
July / August: Emilia Pardo Bazán, The House of Ulloa, transl. from the Spanish by Paul O’Prey (1886): goodreads.com/book/show/17346273-the-house-of-ulloa

September / October: George Sand, Indiana, transl. from the French by Sylvia Raphael (2001 / 1832): goodreads.com/book/show/104260.Indiana

November / December: Mitchitsuna no Haha, The Gossamer Years, transl. from the Japanese by Edward Seidensticker (1989 / 974): goodreads.com/book/show/186608.The_Gossamer_Years

2. Sandy’s 1001 Books Bookclub
January – No book
February - The Princess of Cleves by Madame Lafayette (192 pages)
March - The Well Of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (448 pages)
April - Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud (192 pages)
May - The Waves by Virginia Woolf (304 pages)
June – Love’s Work by Gillian Rose (170 pages)
July - The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (383 pages)
September - The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen (320 pages)
October - The Real Charlotte by Edith Somerville and Martin Ross (415 pages)
November - Anagrams by Lorrie Moore (240 Pages)
December - Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair (86 pages)

Name of my YouTube channel:
I stole 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

Find me elsewhere:
website: brittaboehler.com (hasn’t been updated in a while, sorry…)
goodreads: goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
Instagram: instagram.com/brittaboehler
X, formerly twitter: twitter.com/Britta_Boehler

I also wrote some books:
Fiction:
- De juiste houding (2021): https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20juiste%20houding-T717.php
available in Dutch

- 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
also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Danish, Hebrew and Turkish

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

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

- De zwerftocht van een leider (2000): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/de-zwerftocht-van-een-leider/

Crime novels under the pen name 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
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