First BookHaul of 2024!
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Let’s chat about the first books I acquired this year.
#bookhaul #booktube #books
Peter Frankopan, New Silk Roads (2018): / the-new-silk-roads
#present #nonfiction
Jennifer Ackerman, What an Owl Knows (2023): / what-an-owl-knows
#present #nonfiction #nature
Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Haver Never Known Men, transl. from the French by Roe Schwartz (1997 / 1995): / 11996.i_who_have_never...
#translatedfiction
Naomi Alderman, The Future (2023): / the-future
#scifi
Eowyn Ivey, Bright Edge of the World (2016): / to-the-bright-edge-of-...
#historicalfiction #buddyread
P.D. James, Cover Her Face / Adam Dalgliesh #1 (1962): / cover-her-face
#mystery #buddyread
Elizabeth George, Deception on His Mind / Inspector Lynley Series #9 (1997): / 31366.deception_on_his...
People & channel mentioned
Kathleen @KathleenAnnBooks
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Terri @MsTerriB
Warning! Infodump ahead…
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...
The covers of these books are particularly gorgeous! We can definitely speed up the Lynsey reading but not because you are running out of time! Nope, no way, no ma’am! Love your new buzzy book project!
Aaww, thank you, I definitely feel less old now! 😍 And I really love the covers as well.
Yay for the book haul blouse 🎉❤ I am still not buying books, so love to see yours 😊
Be inspired, for later, maybe? ☺
"To the Bright Edge of the World" gets the Steve seal of approval! I wish I'd kept the beautiful hardcover copy I reviewed way back in 2016
Well, that is a good start of 2024, getting a SSoA! Doesn't happen that often! 😆
That second Silk Road book I need to read even more!
True!! 😀
I just like your tone and enthusiasm Britta, thank you for recommendations, will check some of these out. Have a great day!
Aww, what a lovely compliment, thank you so much! have a great day as well.
I've frozen my hauls and library borrows for the beginning of the year, so I am living vicariously here😂
Emily Fox read and championed I Who Have Never Known Men in 2023, I think that was the catalyst for the recent booktube surge. I am so curious about it as everyone is always very covert in describing the plot minimally.
I also don't think Elizabeth George was on my radar till last year, and I now keep seeing her pop up! Need to get around to something of hers as well now.
Yes, it was probably Emily Fox. I hope you enjoy reading your own books! And yay to Elizabeth George!
Hi, little jealous of your tempting book haul. My new years resolution was to go on a book diet, and I have to read 12 books from my shelf before I can splurging again. But I got excited since the first of my 12 book diet books is a Jennifer Ackerman book. Happy reading.
Oh, yes, the Ackerman-book, great! And I hope you will have finished reading the 12 books you own really soon. Good luck!! ☺️
Nice haul Britta! I’ve seen this Jacqueline Harpman a few months ago. Don’t remember who it was but it’s also on my list to read. l read « La plage d’Ostende » by her many years ago (2007!) and it was a wonderful book about love! Not sure it’s translated to English but I’ve always wanted to read something else by her…
Thank you very much, Julie, happy to hear you liked the books! Oh, I will have to look for the Ostende-book, thank you for the tip! ❤️ (I just did and its available in Dutch!)
@ the beauty of speaking many languages, right?! 😅😉
@@julieg_quebec-julesselivre8641 It is! Even though I'd love to read it in French. But my French is just not good enough...
I’m very excited to see you’re reading Harpman’s book. I’m eager to hear what you think! 😊
I will report back! First check in with Kathleen (after reading about 1/3) is tomorrow. The beginning is very thought-provoking!
My copy of I Who Have Never Known Men is smaller as well. I am reading it now. I think it started with Emily Fox. I am reading it now. I have only acquired four books this month and it is my birthday month
I heard of this through Emily also,
Wow! Only 4 books in the birthday month? That is very modest! ☺️. And thank you and @4zeus20: I probably heard it from Emily then as well.
Buzz Book - Hot or Not ❤
Happy to hear that!
Happy New Year!
Really nice haul. I am interested in the Owl book and I will read "I Who Have Never Known Men" now, it sounds so interesting.
The historical fiction book also sounds intriguing but my track record with historical fiction has not been great. Will wait to hear your thoughts.
A very happy 2024 to you as well! I'm not great with historical fiction usually either, so we shall see about Bright Edge...
I'm looking forward to your thoughts on The Future. Also, I've had a copy of To the Bright Edge of the World on my Kindle since 2017, so maybe I will get around to it this year, too!
I will report back on The Future! And I think you might like Bright Edge, it's a bit slow paced but very atmospherical.
These all sound great! I love your book haul videos...what's a "book buying ban" 🤣?!?!
Happy to hear you liked the books. And there is such a thing as a 'book buying ban'? Mmh. 😂
I loved The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey so I need to check out To the Bright Edge of the World. (Oh, look, it's already on my Storygraph as one I want to read.)
Had to chuckle about your comment in the sense that it made me happy I'm not the only one marking books to read and then completely forgetting about them...😁 I hope you will enjoy Bright Edge!
This was hilarious! As much as I love sweary Britta, I love scold-herself Britta even more.
Some of these look good. I got a lot of book gift cards for Christmas but haven't spent any yet (who am I?!).
You haven't bought any books with your Christmas gift cards yet? Are you feeling quite well? 😆
@I know, right? Obviously I'm ill. 😂😂😂
@@louisep1962 I hope you recover soon! 🤣
@ 🤣🤣
To the Bright Edge of the World is wonderful! I hope you enjoy it! I'm currently 100 pages into Cover Her Face and it's very good so far. I have previously only read P.D. James's short stories (a couple of them featuring Dalgliesh). I'm also slowly making my way through the Lynley series, but I haven't made as much progress as you and Heidi have - only three books read.
Yay for reading the Lnyley-series! Slow but steady will get you there, right? ☺️ And so far, I'm really enjoying Bright Edge.
@ I'm glad you're enjoying it! It's one of my favourite novels.
I read some of the P. D. James Daghleish mysteries years ago, but my favorite by her is Children of Men, liked it enough to keep it, nice and dystopian. Loved Dave Eggers dystopian novels on the tech mogul theme.😮
I loved Children of Men! And The Circle was good, yes. I haven't read the 2nd book in the series yet, though (The Every). Have you read both?
@ Yes, I liked both books.
I’m looking forward to the PD James! I purchased To the Bright Edge of the World (probably Heidi’s fault, lol!) and want to read it soon. I read the author’s other book (The Snow Child?) and really liked it.
Me, too! And Heidi is to blame for so many of my book purchases. LoL. ☺️ I haven't read the Snow Child yet...
I'm from 1962, just like the P.D. James, and you made me wonder if I aged well... I find the Linley series doesn't age very well in that the books become more boring as the series continues. Very longwinded. I used to love them but I stopped reading them.
I had to chuckle about this comment (I'm from 1960). I'm sure we both aged well, better than any crime-series. 😊😊😊
Ha ha, yes! @
I was trying to work out the same thing about I Who Have Never Known Men… except for me every time I see it I think it’s interesting, then I hear the plot and I lose interest 😅
Haha, I hear you! But I've started and now I bloody want to know what is going on! 😆
Hi Bitta. Most of us in the US read what is on our TBR until the spring. Then we take those books, trade them in prior to a library book sale (spring or fall) to become a "patron" and get first pick at the library book sales. Works really well. The last fall library book sale, I got hardback books that were published in 2022 for $1! Paperbacks for $.50! A bargain for sure.
What a wonderful system!! It's a real pity that here in Germany there is nothing similar, at least not for books in English. Sad. ☹️
If you like dystopian fiction, I’d urge you to try
Deluge by Stephen Markley
I know it’s a dude , but it was my top book of 2023. It imagines what might happen if someone like Trump wins the 2024 election. If climate emergency continues to be ignored, the book imagines what the effects would be on ordinary world citizens.
☘️👋🍀📖📚📕🇮🇪☕️🤗
Hi Jacqueline! I marked Deluge as to read, it sounds intriguing and very 'topical', thank you so much for the tip! (I still read 'dudes', just not as many as when I was young...).