February BookHaul & March Mystery Madness!

Описание: Let’s chat about the books I bought in February. Also: #marchmysterymadness!
#bookhaul #marchmysterymadness #booktube

Books mentioned (in alphabetical order):
Frances Burney, Evelina (1778):   / evelina  
#classic #epistolary #buddyread

Catherina Coenen, Unexplored Ordnance (2025):   / unexploded-ordnance  
#nonfiction #essays #buddyread

Anna Garréta, Sphinx, transl. from the French by Emma Ramadan (1986):   / sphinx  
#debut #translatedfiction #womentranslatewomen

Elizabeth George, Something to Hide, Lynley Mysteries #21 (2022):   / something-to-hide  
#mysteries #buddyread #marchmysterymadness

Hon Lai-Chu, Mending Bodies, transl. from the Chinese by Jacqueline Leung (2010):   / mending-bodies  
#scifi #translatedfiction #womentranslatewomen #china

Kim Hey-Jin, Concerning My Daughter, transl. from the Korean by Jamie Chang (2017):   / concerning-my-daughter  
#translatedfiction #womentranslatewomen #buddyread

Francesca Wade, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (2025):   / gertrude-stein  
#biography #booktubeprize

March Mystery Madness:
Co-Creators:
LizziefayeLovesBooks
   / @lizziefayelovesbooks  
Troi Towel
   / @toweltroi  
Jenn - Remembered Reads
   / @rememberedreads  

Additional hosts
Olly -    / @criminollyblog  
Marilyn Maya - https://www.youtube.com@marilynmayamendoza
Sarah -    / @readingcategoryromance  
Beth -    / @elizabethtyreesoulstainedink  
Stormi -    / @stormreads  
Tiffany -    / @thebeachbumbookworm  
Tim -    / @timsreadingroom  

Schedule of the Special International Hosts:
Feb 27 - Scotland - Fiona from My Cosy Haven https://www.youtube.com@readsandeats2263
Mar 6 - Ireland - Aoife from Words of Clover    / @wordsofclover  
Mar 13 - Turkey - Berna from Berna’s Bookish Adventures
   / @bernasbookishadventures  
Mar 20 - Germany/The Netherlands - Britta from Britta Bohler
   / @brittabohlerthesecondshelf  
Mar 27 - Australia - Mr. Francy from Mr Francy Reads
   / @mrfrancyofficial  

The prompts:
Read a Mystery that is set in a different continent than where you live
Read a Mystery from an author who is from a different country than where you live
Read a Mystery that has been translated from its original language

People & channels mentioned:
BTP ‪@BookTubePrize‬
Heidi ‪@myreadinglife8816‬
Jos Smith on Goodreads:   / jo  

Name of my YouTube channel:
I stole name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/boo...

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): https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20...
available in Dutch
The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the...
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php...
also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Danish, Hebrew and Turkish

Non-fiction (available only in Dutch):
De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/D...
Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-...
De zwerftocht van een leider (2000): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-...

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)
https://www.hodder.co.uk/authors/deta...

and for German readers:
Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto...