Britta Böhler | The first books of 2024! @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Let’s chat about my first reads of 2024.
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube
1st book of the year:
Elisa Macellari, Kusama, transl. from the Italian by (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/51182074-kusama
#graphic novel #nonfiction #translated
Also finished:
Joanna Scutts, Hotbed (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/59228220-hotbed
#nonfiction #feminism
Jenni Nuttall, Mother Tongue (2023): goodreads.com/book/show/114816268-mother-tongue
#nonfiction #feminism
Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin (2006): goodreads.com/book/show/9394255-mornings-in-jenin
#Palestine #debut
Up next:
Eowyn Ivey, To the Bright Edge of the World (2016): goodreads.com/book/show/29758006-to-the-bright-edge-of-the-world-paperback-may-04-2017-ivey-eowyn
#historicalfiction #Buddyread
Margo Jefferson, Constructing a Nervous System (2022): Joanna Scutts, Hotbed (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/59228220-hotbed
#nonfiction #memoir
People and channel mentioned:
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
If you want to read along:
1. Classics 2024 / Schedule:
January / February: Ida B. Wells, The Light of Truth (2014): goodreads.com/book/show/20893307-the-light-of-truth
#PoC
March/ April: Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron, transl. from the French by Paul Chilton (1984 / 1558): goodreads.com/book/show/505222.The_Heptameron
May / June: Various, The Mirror of my Heart, transl. from the Persian by Dick Davis (2019): goodreads.com/book/show/54732982-the-mirror-of-my-heart
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 / Schedule:
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)
Warning! Infodump ahead…
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 first reads of 2024.
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube
1st book of the year:
Elisa Macellari, Kusama, transl. from the Italian by (2020): goodreads.com/book/show/51182074-kusama
#graphic novel #nonfiction #translated
Also finished:
Joanna Scutts, Hotbed (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/59228220-hotbed
#nonfiction #feminism
Jenni Nuttall, Mother Tongue (2023): goodreads.com/book/show/114816268-mother-tongue
#nonfiction #feminism
Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin (2006): goodreads.com/book/show/9394255-mornings-in-jenin
#Palestine #debut
Up next:
Eowyn Ivey, To the Bright Edge of the World (2016): goodreads.com/book/show/29758006-to-the-bright-edge-of-the-world-paperback-may-04-2017-ivey-eowyn
#historicalfiction #Buddyread
Margo Jefferson, Constructing a Nervous System (2022): Joanna Scutts, Hotbed (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/59228220-hotbed
#nonfiction #memoir
People and channel mentioned:
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
If you want to read along:
1. Classics 2024 / Schedule:
January / February: Ida B. Wells, The Light of Truth (2014): goodreads.com/book/show/20893307-the-light-of-truth
#PoC
March/ April: Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron, transl. from the French by Paul Chilton (1984 / 1558): goodreads.com/book/show/505222.The_Heptameron
May / June: Various, The Mirror of my Heart, transl. from the Persian by Dick Davis (2019): goodreads.com/book/show/54732982-the-mirror-of-my-heart
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 / Schedule:
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)
Warning! Infodump ahead…
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
