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Life update & chat & reading highlights.
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube
Books Mentioned
Mona Awad, All’s Well (2021): / all-s-well
#unhinged
Emilia Pardo Bazán, The House of Ulloa, transl. from the Spanish by Paul O’Prey & Lucia Graves (original published in 1886): / the-house-of-ulloa
#1001Women #translated
Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch (2020): / the-mermaid-of-black-c...
#1001Women #caribbean #Booknaturalists
Gillian Rose, Love’s Work (1995): / love-s-work
#1001Women #nonfiction #SandysBookclub
Alexis Wright, Praiseworthy (2023): / praiseworthy
#1001Women #indigenous #AussieLit #Stellaprize #buddyreads
People & channels mentioned:
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Doris @alldbooks9165
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
Adam @MementoMori (on Instagram): www.instagram....
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): / the-house-of-ulloa
September / October: George Sand, Indiana, transl. from the French by Sylvia Raphael (2001 / 1832): / 104260.indiana
November / December: Mitchitsuna no Haha, The Gossamer Years, transl. from the Japanese by Edward Seidensticker (1989 / 974): / 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 KZbin channel:
I stole name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com...
Find me elsewhere:
website: www.brittaboehler.com (hasn’t been updated in a while, sorry…)
goodreads: / 5497508.britta_b_hler
Instagram: / brittaboehler
X, formerly twitter: / britta_boehler
I also wrote some books:
Fiction:
- De juiste houding (2021): www.uitgeverij...
available in Dutch
- The Decision (2015): hauspublishing....
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): www.aufbau-verl...
also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Danish, Hebrew and Turkish
Non-fiction (available only in Dutch):
- De goede advocaat (2017): www.uitgeverijc...
- Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004): www.singeluitg...
- De zwerftocht van een leider (2000): www.singeluitg...
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)
www.hodder.co....
and for German readers:
- Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
- Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
- Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
www.hoffmann-un...