BuzzBook: Hot or Not?
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- čas přidán 23. 01. 2024
- Let’s talk about The Future!
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube
Nami Alderman, The Future (November 2023): / the-future
Next Up:
Kiley Reid, Come And get It (January 2024): / come-and-get-it
Read along with me!
1. Reading 6 classics in 2024
Schedule:
January / February: Ida B. Wells, The Light of Truth (2014): / the-light-of-truth
#PoC
March/ April: Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron, transl. from the French by Paul Chilton (1984 / 1558): / 505222.the_heptameron
May / June: Various, The Mirror of my Heart, transl. from the Persian by Dick Davis (2019): / the-mirror-of-my-heart
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
Schedule:
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 CZcams channel:
I stole name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: 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): www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20...
available in Dutch
- The Decision (2015): hauspublishing.com/fiction/the...
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): 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): www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/D...
- Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004): www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-...
- De zwerftocht van een leider (2000): 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)
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)
www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto...
I like this idea! I'm always wondering about the buzz!
Very happy to hear that! ❤️
Great series Britta!! Looking forward to hearing about the books you choose! ❤
Happy to hear you like this series! I'm usually not getting along with those 'buzzbooks' very well, so we shall see how long I can keep it up... 😁
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I am really looking forward to James by Percival Everett, which comes out in March. The Trees is one of my favorites. This book is a retelling of Huck Finn from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man who travels with Finn.
I have James on my list as well!! Everett is such an underrated writer, I feel. Glad that he has gotten some recognition recently.
This is a fun new series! 🤩
I will trash all the buzz books. 😂
I am hit and miss with buzz books. Generally I get to them years later, unless it's an author whose previous books I have really liked.
This was a fun video. I appreciate your very fair assessment.
It's often hit and miss for me as well, and I'm always a bit hesitant to believe the buzz, but sometimes a book surprises me in a positive way.
I really like the idea of this series and this video! Definitely makes me want to read Alderman at some time (I have not read the Power either).
Thank you very much, Andrea, happy to hear that! ❤️I hope you will get to the Alderman- books at some point...
Wow, I love this series idea! Also, wow - that interview quote from Alderman is so telling!! Thanks so much for reading it and sharing!!
Really happy that you like it! And I agree re the Alderman quote...
I didn’t think of that regarding the cover ! I own the book , but have yet to read it
Curious to hear what you make of the book!
Love this new series! And so nice to follow an older reader who thinks the problem is capitalism, not the people within it. 👍🏼
Aww, thank you so much!!
I clearly do not read buzzy books because I have not even read the very popular first two books by these authors! Great review!
Haha, Heidi is not impressed by the buzz. I have too much FOMO....
BuzzBook's tend to fizzle in my experience. I think it reveals more about those pumping up the book than the work itself. I think it's naive to think that if anything is run by the "good guys" the outcome will be a near utopia. Maybe the author should read some J.G. Ballard books like Super-Cannes.
Yes, that's so true, many of them just fizzle away and are never spoken again. And I completely agree about 'the good guys'!
Such a thoughtful review. I definitely like this idea for this series, Britta, and I appreciate the depth of your reviews. Thank you!
Very happy to hear that Patricia, thank you!
Love this series idea!
Happy to hear that!!
I stay well away from buzzy books - if it stands the hype I might read it many years later so I’m glad you’re doing this series Britta . I was surprised how much I enjoyed The Power though I don’t think it’s a book I’d revisit. I don’t think this one is for me but happy you enjoyed it!
Yes, the buzz is often not really validated. And I enjoyed The Power as well!
Great idea for a series. I think it would take more than a few renegades to blow capitalism apart. I was smiling at your review as I conflated capitalism, the publishing industry, buzz books and hype. I find myself disappointed with many of the buzz books. They are not all bad but the hype, the expectation……does them no favours. With many of them, I find myself thinking, mmm, good effort, points for trying to be original, but it all adds up to less than the sum of its parts. Hype sells books though. 🤔 I end up asking myself just how adequately did the writer “deal” with the issue.
Happy to hear you like the idea! And yes, buzz books often don't make good on the promise, unfortunately. And I agree, if expectations are too high it doesn't do the book any good.
Down with capitalism - yes! 🤣 I also don't know what I have read about this book previously, because I did not think it was about tech at all. I love this series idea, Britta, although I am afraid you will read all the hype and be disappointed 😀 I am excited to hear your thoughts on the Reid book too.
Down with Capitalism! Power to the People! 😂 And I'm still hopeful that a buzz book might surprise me in a positive way... Always the optimist, me. ☺️
Tolles Format! Leider also kein Buch für jemanden, die sowieso schon ein volles Regal ungelesener Bücher hat ;-) - ich empfehle zur Kapitalismus-Kritik Jonas Lüscher mit seinem Buch Kraft (ja, ja, ein Mann, passt nicht zum Kanal, dennoch ein umwerfendes Buch).
Vielen Dank für die viele Arbeit und die guten Rezensionen.
Habe mich sehr über Deinen Kommentar gefreut! Ich mochte Lüschers Bücher auch, vor allem Frühling der Barbaren.