Britta Böhler's Blog, page 7

New video: Books Weekly - Tainted Love

My week in books (3 – 9 October 2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J9YB...

Books & other things mentioned:

finished from last week:
Joyce Carol Oates, The Man Without a Shadow (2016)
Henry Molaison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M...

Video: 2 in 1 BookReview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_b9...

also read this week (re-read):
Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved (2002)

started this week:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus (2003)
Goodreads-group #ReadingAdichie:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
Max’ channel @welldonebooks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTA7...

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
Goodreads-group Readers Inc: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...
Conrad’s channel @7daysatsea: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcWB...

New Video: 2 in 1 BookReview

Two book reviews:
When the ‘woman-scorned-trope’ didn’t work… And when it did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_b9...

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned,"
The Mourning Bride by William Congreve (1697)

Book Review of
Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment, translated by Ann Goldstein ( 2005), Italian original published in 2002
Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men (2011)

Rohan Maitzen in OpenLettersMonthly (2014):
http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/nov...


Find me elsewhere:
twitter - https://twitter.com/BohlerWriting
goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Britta-Böhle...

By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/boo...


I also wrote some books:

The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the...
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2104): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php...

as 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)
http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto...

New video: BooksWeekly - Vicious Reads

My week in books (25 September - 2 October 2016):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87K48...
Books & other things mentioned:

finished from last week:
V.E. Schwab, Vicious (2013) / Vicious #1
sequel: Vengeful, publication date not yet announced

also read this week:
Lauren Beukes, Broken Monsters (2014)

Joyce Carol Oates, Soul at the White Heat, Essays (September 2016)
- Open Letter Monthly: http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/
- Steve’s channel @stevedonoghue: https://www.youtube.com/user/saintdon...

started this week:
Joyce Carol Oates, The Man Without a Shadow (2016)
Conrad’s channel @7daysatsea: https://www.youtube.com/user/justadus...
Henry Molaison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M...


Find me elsewhere:
twitter - https://twitter.com/BohlerWriting
goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Britta-Böhle...

By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/boo...


I also wrote some books:

The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the...
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2104): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php...

as 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)
http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto...

New video: GermanGems #2

Three 'German' authors you might want to check out. (German authors = authors writing in German):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzbo-...

Books & other things mentioned:

GermanGems (first video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyV34...

Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel, translated by Basil Creighton (NYRB Classics, June 2016) / Menschen im Hotel (1929)

Jenny Erpenbeck, The End of Days, translated by Susan Bernofsky (New Directions, 2014)/ Aller Tage Abend (2012)

Maja Haderlap, Angel of Oblivion, translated by Tess Lewis (Archipelago, August 2016) / Engel des Vergessens (2011)



Find me elsewhere:
twitter - https://twitter.com/BohlerWriting
goodreads - https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Britta-Böhle...

By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/boo...


I also wrote some books:

The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the...
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2104): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php...

as 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)
http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto...

New video: Books Weekly - Fighting ghosts

My week in books
19 - 25 September 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeC-g...

Diverse-a-thon reads

The books I've read during diverse-a-thon
(12 - 19 September 2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dldR5...

Books Weekly - Some fantasy and some real issues (#DiverseAThon)

My week in books (4 - 11 September 2016)

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

Books Weekly - Surprises and bad endings

My week in books (28 August - 3 September)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNiX2...

New video: Try a Chapter - Tag

This is a fantastic tag: you chose five books off your TBR, read the first chapter of each of them and then pick one book you decide to continue reading.

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

Video: Books Weekly #2

New video: my week in books (21 - 27 August 2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfiSj...