Britta Böhler | Tops & Flops: Fall 2023 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Let’s chat about my tops & flops for the months September, October & November.
#books #bookreviews #booktube
The categories:
Tops
Book that surprised me the most
Book that I thought about the most
Best nonfiction book
Flops
Two books, ranging from ‘meh’ to ‘bad’. And occasionally: ‘Very, very bad.’
Books mentioned, in alphabetical order of the author’s name:
Asmaa al-Ghoul with Sélim Nassib, A Rebel in Gaza, translated from the French by Mike Mitchell
#ReadPaestine: publishersforpalestine.org
Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/58607657-lessons-in-chemistry
#debut
Beth Macey, Dopesick (2018): goodreads.com/book/show/37486540-dopesick
Oksana Vasyakina, Wound, translated from the Russian by Elina Alter (2023 / 2020): goodreads.com/book/show/59772347-wound
#translated
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman (1856): goodreads.com/book/show/20910211-john-halifax-gentleman
People / channels mentioned:
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
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
Let’s chat about my tops & flops for the months September, October & November.
#books #bookreviews #booktube
The categories:
Tops
Book that surprised me the most
Book that I thought about the most
Best nonfiction book
Flops
Two books, ranging from ‘meh’ to ‘bad’. And occasionally: ‘Very, very bad.’
Books mentioned, in alphabetical order of the author’s name:
Asmaa al-Ghoul with Sélim Nassib, A Rebel in Gaza, translated from the French by Mike Mitchell
#ReadPaestine: publishersforpalestine.org
Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/58607657-lessons-in-chemistry
#debut
Beth Macey, Dopesick (2018): goodreads.com/book/show/37486540-dopesick
Oksana Vasyakina, Wound, translated from the Russian by Elina Alter (2023 / 2020): goodreads.com/book/show/59772347-wound
#translated
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, John Halifax, Gentleman (1856): goodreads.com/book/show/20910211-john-halifax-gentleman
People / channels mentioned:
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
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
