Birthday Book Haul!

Описание: It was my birthday last week, and so I got some books. Of course!
#bookhaul #books #booktube

Books Mentioned
Sibilia Aleramo, A Woman, transl. from the Italian by Erica Segre & Simon Carnell (1906):   / a-woman  
#translatedfiction #feminism

Cat Bohannon, Eve (2023):   / eve  
#nonfiction #feminism

Whitney Chadwick, Art, Women, Society (new edition 2020):   / women-art-and-society  
#nonfiction #art

Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays (1970):   / play-it-as-it-lays  

Laura Elkin, Art Monsters (2023):   / art-monsters  
#nonfiction #feminism #art

Natsuko Imamura, The Woman in the Purple Skirt, transl. from the Japanese by Lucy North (2019):   / the-woman-in-the-purple-skirt  
#translated #Unhinged

Joy Sorman, Tenderloin, transl. from the French by Lara Vergnaud (2024 / 2012):   / tenderloin  
#translated

Books gifted to me:
Ariel Lawhorn, Frozen River (2023):   / the-frozen-river  
#historicalfiction #Maine

Ursula Le Guin, Into the Desert, Across the Ice (2021 / 1982 - 1987):   / into-the-desert-across-the-ice  
#scifi

Dan Sinykin, Big Fiction (2023):   / big-fiction  
#nonfiction #dudes

José Donoso, The Obscene Bird of Night, transl. from the Spanish (Chile) by Leonard Mades & Megan McDowell (1970 / 2024):   / the-obscene-bird-of-night  
#translated #dudes

People and channels mentioned:
Heidi: ‪@myreadinglife8816‬
Adam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/mementomori...

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 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...