Britta Böhler | Tops & Flops: January 2023 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Let’s chat about my tops & flops of the month of January.
Books mentioned, in alphabetical order of the author’s name:
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate, transl. form the Spanish by Carol & Thomas Christensen (1992 / 1989): goodreads.com/book/show/6952.Like_Water_for_Chocolate
#Buddyread #1001Women #TranslatedFiction #GlobalSouth
Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/58536037-woman-eating
#1001Women
Riva Lehrer, Golem Girl (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/59124158-golem-girl
#1001Women #Nonfiction #Memoir #ViragoPress
Olga Ravn, The Employees, transl. from the Danish by Martin Aitkin (2022 / 2018): goodreads.com/book/show/58470819-the-employees
#Buddyread #TranslatedFiction #SciFi #IndiePress
Simone Schwartz-Bart, The Bridge of Beyond, transl. from the French by Barbara Bray (1982 / 1972): goodreads.com/book/show/17262564-the-bridge-of-beyond
#Caribbean #TranslatedFiction
People / channels mentioned:
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
Adam on IG: instagram.com/mementomoriadam/?hl=en
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 of the month of January.
Books mentioned, in alphabetical order of the author’s name:
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate, transl. form the Spanish by Carol & Thomas Christensen (1992 / 1989): goodreads.com/book/show/6952.Like_Water_for_Chocolate
#Buddyread #1001Women #TranslatedFiction #GlobalSouth
Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating (2022): goodreads.com/book/show/58536037-woman-eating
#1001Women
Riva Lehrer, Golem Girl (2021): goodreads.com/book/show/59124158-golem-girl
#1001Women #Nonfiction #Memoir #ViragoPress
Olga Ravn, The Employees, transl. from the Danish by Martin Aitkin (2022 / 2018): goodreads.com/book/show/58470819-the-employees
#Buddyread #TranslatedFiction #SciFi #IndiePress
Simone Schwartz-Bart, The Bridge of Beyond, transl. from the French by Barbara Bray (1982 / 1972): goodreads.com/book/show/17262564-the-bridge-of-beyond
#Caribbean #TranslatedFiction
People / channels mentioned:
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
Adam on IG: instagram.com/mementomoriadam/?hl=en
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
