Britta Böhler | Tops & Flops: June / July 2023 @brittabohlerthesecondshelf | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Let’s chat about my tops & flops of the months of June and July.
#bookreviews #books #amreading
The categories:
Tops
Book that I thought about the most
Book that surprised me the most
Best nonfiction book
Flops
Two books, ranging from ‘meh’ to ‘bad, very, very bad.’
Books mentioned, in alphabetical order of the author’s name:
Jane Austen, Lady Susan (1871): goodreads.com/book/show/91582.Lady_Susan
#12classics #buddyread
Elizabeth Bowen, Heat of the Day (1948): goodreads.com/book/show/1280767.The_Heat_of_the_Day
#1001Women #IrishLit #buddyread
Mary Costello, Academy Street (2014): goodreads.com/book/show/22841065-academy-street
#debut #IrishLit #buddyread
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (2003): goodreads.com/book/show/33917.The_Namesake
Kate Zernicke, The Exceptions (2023): goodreads.com/book/show/61273694-the-exceptions
#science
People / channels mentioned:
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
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 months of June and July.
#bookreviews #books #amreading
The categories:
Tops
Book that I thought about the most
Book that surprised me the most
Best nonfiction book
Flops
Two books, ranging from ‘meh’ to ‘bad, very, very bad.’
Books mentioned, in alphabetical order of the author’s name:
Jane Austen, Lady Susan (1871): goodreads.com/book/show/91582.Lady_Susan
#12classics #buddyread
Elizabeth Bowen, Heat of the Day (1948): goodreads.com/book/show/1280767.The_Heat_of_the_Day
#1001Women #IrishLit #buddyread
Mary Costello, Academy Street (2014): goodreads.com/book/show/22841065-academy-street
#debut #IrishLit #buddyread
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (2003): goodreads.com/book/show/33917.The_Namesake
Kate Zernicke, The Exceptions (2023): goodreads.com/book/show/61273694-the-exceptions
#science
People / channels mentioned:
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Kim @MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH
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
