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...