Britta Böhler | September 2024: Tops & Flops @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
Let’s chat about my tops and flops of September. (And yes, I'm behind with answering comments. Again. SORRY!)
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube
Categories:
Tops
Book I thought about the most
Book that surprised me the most
Best non fiction book
Flops
Two books that just didn’t work or that I disliked
Books mentioned (in alphabetical order):
Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (1929): goodreads.com/book/show/1280768.The_Last_September
#shortyseptember #Irishliterature #1001Women #Sandysbookclub
Siri Hustvedt, Memories of the Future (2019): goodreads.com/book/show/45033681-memories-of-the-future
Mira Jacob, Good Talk (2019): goodreads.com/book/show/36700347-good-talk
#graphicnovel #memoir #poc #reread
George Sand, Indiana, transl. from the French by Sylvia Raphael (1832): goodreads.com/book/show/104260.Indiana
#classic #translatedfiction #1001Women #buddyread
I forgot to mention: this was a buddyread with JoSmith
Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (1989): goodreads.com/book/show/52342718-sexing-the-cherry
#historicalfiction
People and channels mentioned:
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
JoSmith
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
Let’s chat about my tops and flops of September. (And yes, I'm behind with answering comments. Again. SORRY!)
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube
Categories:
Tops
Book I thought about the most
Book that surprised me the most
Best non fiction book
Flops
Two books that just didn’t work or that I disliked
Books mentioned (in alphabetical order):
Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (1929): goodreads.com/book/show/1280768.The_Last_September
#shortyseptember #Irishliterature #1001Women #Sandysbookclub
Siri Hustvedt, Memories of the Future (2019): goodreads.com/book/show/45033681-memories-of-the-future
Mira Jacob, Good Talk (2019): goodreads.com/book/show/36700347-good-talk
#graphicnovel #memoir #poc #reread
George Sand, Indiana, transl. from the French by Sylvia Raphael (1832): goodreads.com/book/show/104260.Indiana
#classic #translatedfiction #1001Women #buddyread
I forgot to mention: this was a buddyread with JoSmith
Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (1989): goodreads.com/book/show/52342718-sexing-the-cherry
#historicalfiction
People and channels mentioned:
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
JoSmith
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
