Britta Böhler's Blog

RecentReads: Wild at Heart

Let's chat about the books I've read recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDbuE...

Books & other things mentioned:
- Nora Roberts, Your One / Chronicles of the One #1 (December 2017): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

- Carrie Vaughn, The Wild Dead / Bannerless-saga #2 (17 July 2018): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

- Sylvia Townsend Warner, Summer Will Show (1936): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Shawn @ Shawnthebookmaniac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS6l-...
(Review starts at 2:58)
Eric: lonesomereader: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBOdS...
(Review starts at 23:21)

- Daphne du Maurier, The Loving Spirit (1931): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Ange @beyondthepages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJh0c...
Daphne du Maurier-project: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

- Wendy Mitchell, Somebody I Used to Know (June 2018): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
short film with Mitchell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfuWJ...

RecentReads: Out of Place

Let's chat about the books I've read recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNt7K...

Books & other things mentioned:

- Patricia Grace, Chappy (2015)
Mel’s Read Around the World-bookclub on goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

Mel’s channel @MelsBooklandAdventures: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpyo...

Haka performed by the All Blacks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYmsz...

- Leni Zumas, Red Clocks (2018): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

- Octavia E. Butler, Kindred (1979): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

- Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink (2017): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
interview with Kadish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68B9...
Geraldine Brook, The People of the Book (2008): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

RecentReads: Wounded Souls

Let's chat about the books I've read recently.

https://youtu.be/e2mFHbhOkM0

Books & other things mentioned:

- Nora Ikstena, Soviet Milk, translated from the Latvian by Margita Gailitis (2018 / published in Latvia in 2015)
buddy-read with Shawn @ShawnTheBookManiac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLn7A...

Kamil’s review @WhatKamilReads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx8V0...

Eric’s reviews @TheLonesomeReader:
- Soviet Milk and my Family Recipe for Latvian piragi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRxb2...
- Review (and interview with Ikstena):
http://lonesomereader.com/blog/2018/4...

- Elizabeth Gaskell, North & South (1855)
buddy-read with Olive @abookolive: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6wK...

- Edna O’Brien, The Little Red Chairs (2015)
The Karadžić-trial: http://www.icty.org/en/cases/radovan-...

RecentReads: Fates & Furies

Let’s chat about three books I’ve read recently. A bit of a mixed bag…

https://youtu.be/5BUK9sJ42Kg

Books & other things mentioned:

- Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists (2018)
Olive’s more positive take @abookolive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUh7...

- Ursula le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (1971)

- Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You (2017)
Women’s Prize shortlist: https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co....
Jennifer’s review @InsertLiteraryPunHere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2KI7...

RecentReads: Laws of Attraction

Let's chat about my recent reads:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA5Pa...

Books & other things mentioned:

- Mai Al-Nakib, The Hidden Light of Objects (2014)
Mel’s bookclub Read Around the World:
Nakib’s website: http://www.maialnakib.com/

- Aminatta Forna, Happiness (March 2018)

- Emma Newman, Before Mars / Planetfall #3 (April 2018)

- Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion (April 2018)
my gushy review-video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwzoY...

RecentReads: Heavy Lifting

Let’s chat about my recent reads!

https://youtu.be/-BFFjSYHn7I

Books & other things mentioned:
- Rafia Zakaria, The Upstairs Wife (2015)
Video: “Help me pick my next read”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPQta...
Next up in April: Jennifer Miller, The Gadfly (2012)

- Mary Beard, Women & Power (2017)

- Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (2017)
Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJZd...

RecentReads: Missing Pieces

Let's chat about the books I read recently:

https://youtu.be/KjbPZev0n-4

- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna (2009)
video ‘Pick my next read’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPQta...
and up next: Rafia Zakaria, The Upstairs Wife

- Jess Kidd, The Hoarder (2018)
Open Letters Review: https://openlettersreview.com/

- Edwidge Danticat, Claire of the Sealight
Read around the world bookclub: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

- Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie / debut (2018)

RecentReads: Criminal Intent

Let’s talk about crime! After all it’s March Mystery Madness:

https://youtu.be/X8S7p764d4U

Books and other things mentioned
#MarchMysteryMadness:
- Steve’s video with links to all the hosts @stevedonoghue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHk65...
- goodreads group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

- Jane Harper, The Dry (2016)
- Jane Harper, Force of Nature (2017)
David’s hilarious video on, among other things, The Dry (2016), @thepoptimist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6IM3...

- Josephine Tey, Daughter of Time / Inspector Alan Grant #5 (1951)

- Laline Paull, The Ice (2017)

- Sarah Perry, After the Eclipse (2017)

RecentReads: Three debuts

Let's chat about three debut novels I've read recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VEm-...

Books and other things mentioned:

Kerry Andrew, Swansong (debut / January 2018)
Performance of Who Are We in the RAH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDSPC...

S.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man (debut / January 2018)
Steve’s review in Open Letters Review: https://openlettersreview.com/open-le...

Sue Burke, Semiosis (debut / February 2018)
My review in Open Letters Review: https://openlettersreview.com/open-le...

NewBooks: TBR February 2018

As always, some new releases that I thought sounded interesting:

https://youtu.be/w3STxMD-J3A

Literary fiction / debut:
- Zoe Gilbert, Folk (short stories / 8 Feb)
interview with Gilbert: http://thresholds.chi.ac.uk/an-interv...

- Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry (stories / 6 Feb)

Science fiction:
- Sue Burke, Semiosis (6 Feb / debut)

- Jon Walton, Starlings (short stories / 13 Feb)