RecentReads on Sunday: December 17, 2023

Let’s chat about my recent reads!
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube
And I forgot to mention, we still need judges for the BooktubePrize 2024. Please check out Robert’s video, ‘Call for judges for the BTP’: • 2024 Call for Judges
The deadline is 31 December 2023!
Also: the sniffles are gone, thank you all for your well-wishes!!
Finished
Rebecca F. Kuang, Yellowface (2023): / yellowface
#PoC
Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation (2022): / disorientation
#debut #PoC
Hala Alyan, Salt Houses (2017): / salt-houses
#debut #readpalestine
Currently reading
Elizabeth George, In the Presence of the Enemy / Inspector Lynley Mysteries #8 (1996): / 77097.in_the_presence_...
#buddyread #crime
Mary Beard, Emperor of Rome (2023): / emperor-of-rome
#nonfiction
Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void, transl. from the Japanese by David Boyd and Lucy North (2022 / 2020): / diary-of-a-void
#translated #PoC
People & channels mentioned:
Heidi ‪@myreadinglife8816‬
The 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...

[@HannahsBooks]

Every time you talk about Lynley, it makes me want to pick them up again!

Me = Big smile!!

[@alldbooks9165]

Appreciated your thoughts especially about Salt Houses.

I think you would enjoy Salt Houses!

[@eyesonindie]

So glad you enjoyed Salt Houses. I did love that book, too.

Wonderful book, yes! ❤️

[@myreadinglife8816]

You sold me on Salt Houses!

Oh, great. I think you will enjoy it.

[@susprime7018]

Elizabeth George is the only author in that stack that I have read.

I love Elizabbeth George!

[@ravenhill_firelord_1968]

good afternoon Britta, have a merry christmas.

Thank you very much! And a happy new year to you!

[@MarilynMayaMendoza]

Hi Britta I have Minor feelings by Cathy Park Hong on my shelf but have only read 15 pages so far. So I can’t recommend it yet…
Have you read the Frida Klein series by Nikki French? I just started Tuesday’s gone and I’m really engrossed. Yes lieutenant Linley, by Elizabeth George. I have to continue that series. Aloha.

I've read minor Feelings two years ago, and thought it was quite good And Nikki French is too suspenseful for me. LoL.

[@Wendy-ib3iy]

Have you read/are you planning to read any books by Susan Abulhawa? If not, then I can really recommend her work if you want to read books set in Palestine. I "enjoyed" her book Mornings in Jenin much more than I enjoyed Salt Houses. I found it really powerful.

Yes, Susan Abulhawa, absolutely! I have just finished Against the Loveless World and I have Mornings in Jenin on my list next. ❤️

[@loriroemer1122]

I'm glad you are enjoying the Lynley series so much! It is one of my favorite series. Have you watched the television adaptation? It's good.

I love the tv adaptation! (Had to get used to Lynley being black haired, though. LoL.)