The first books of 2024!

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): / kusama
#graphic novel #nonfiction #translated
Also finished:
Joanna Scutts, Hotbed (2022): / hotbed
#nonfiction #feminism
Jenni Nuttall, Mother Tongue (2023): / mother-tongue
#nonfiction #feminism
Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin (2006): / mornings-in-jenin
#Palestine #debut
Up next:
Eowyn Ivey, To the Bright Edge of the World (2016): / to-the-bright-edge-of-...
#historicalfiction #Buddyread
Margo Jefferson, Constructing a Nervous System (2022): Joanna Scutts, Hotbed (2022): / 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): / the-light-of-truth
#PoC
March/ April: Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron, transl. from the French by Paul Chilton (1984 / 1558): / 505222.the_heptameron
May / June: Various, The Mirror of my Heart, transl. from the Persian by Dick Davis (2019): / the-mirror-of-my-heart
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 / 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 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...

[@myreadinglife8816]

Coming in fresh for the new year! Love it!

It's silly, I know, but I really love the clean slate on 1 Jan. 😊

[@LouiseReader]

I found the Kusuma book browsing at my library a year or more ago. I really enjoyed it too. My daughter and I did a jigsaw of her work afterwards that was fun.

That is awesome! ❤️

[@TheUnhingedWomanBookClub]

I love your channel Britta! I’m looking forward to your 2024 content, nice to see some awesome girl energy on the internet. I recently started a BookTube channel and also agree with the need to promote more books by women! 💃🏼💁🏼‍♀️💕

Thank you so much!! ❤️ And I have subscribed to your channel as well. Great that you've started a channel of your own. Welcome to booktube!

[@TheUnhingedWomanBookClub]

Awww thanks Britta!! ❤@

[@audreyh7892]

Just bought a book called “A rebel in gaza” and a new book coming out soon: “My Brother, My Land”.

Rebel in Gaza is really interesting (I read it last year). And My Brother is on my list as well!

[@Keepthefaithfilms]

Yes I enjoy your reviews very rich❤

Thank you so much!

[@booksaremysociallife]

Mornings in Jenin is just one of my absolute favorites, I'm so glad you liked it.

It is so good! ❤️

[@josmith5992]

A big non fiction start to the year Britta! Even I am reading two non fiction this month- who am I? I know you didn’t love Sahar Khalifeh’s My First and Only Love but I can recommend Wild Thorns by her which is a quite different book. I’m hoping to read her The End of Spring next month. Hotbed sounds really good but I can see why expectations would have affected your experience, pesky things 😬

Nonfiction?! Who are you and what did you do with Jo? 😂 And thank you very much for the rec! Even though I didn't like her other book that much, I thought she was an interesting author and I certainly want to read more of her work.

[@louisep1962]

I'm so glad you enjoyed Mornings in Jenin! I read it last year and thought it was superb. I may need to re-read it. My reading year so far has also been a mixed bag, some excellent, some very not. I'm looking forward to hearing you talk about the next two books you mentioned because I have them both on my TBR.

Mornings in Jenin was so good. Heartwrenching also, and even more so, knowing that many families IRL had to go through that hardship. I will report back on those other two books!

[@hadeel_K]

I want to read Mornings in Jenin 💛💛

Oh, I hope you will!! ❤️

[@mireillelambre2006]

I will join you with the Princess of Cleves and at the end of January I'll be reading Ida B. Wells but not with the same book but with only a part of it Southern Horrors.

Great to hear you will join, Mireille!

[@susprime7018]

I bought Princess of Cleves but not sure when I will get to it, I bought Memoirs of Hadrian translated from the French about a year ago, maybe I will read both of them in February.

Memoirs of Hadrian is fantastic, I hope you will like it!

[@LibraryMemory]

Just add Kusama book on my list 😅

Fabulous!!

[@alldbooks9165]

Bummer about Mother Tongue.

Yes, it was, I had been really looking forward to it. Oh well...

[@Selinalinaly]

I enjoy how you present your book choices and reviews! 🫶🏽💞

Aww, thank you so much! ❤️