2023 - The Reading Year Revisited
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- čas přidán 23. 12. 2023
- Let’s chat about how I did with my reading plans in 2023:
#amreading #books #booktube
General:
- Goodreads Challenge
- PoC-authors / Translated fiction / Nonfiction
Plans & Projects:
- 1001-Books I Have to Read Before I Die
Have a look at my to read-shelf: www.goodreads.com/review/list...
- Country Spotlight: IrishLit
- Book Naturalists Book Club
- Booktube Prize: www.booktubeprize.org/
Call for Judges: • 2024 Call for Judges
- Women’s Prize for Fiction: www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/
New projects in 2023:
- Global South
My Shelf on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/list...
- Classics 2023
- Favorite Presses
- Readathons:
* Victober
* Nonfiction November
Warning! Infodump to follow
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 have enough food ... I have cake ... and I have books" - Hah! That pretty much sums things up!
Yes, Britta's got her priorities straight!
I absolutely do! 😂
I know what's important in life, right? 😂
The most wonderful time of the year … reflecting and planning. ❤️🤓
It really is!❤️
Here’s hoping for a more positive work year! And you giving ourselves a break when we need it! ❤
Yes, let's aim for that!!
Enjoyable as always. Hope you have another great year reading. Thanks to you I read more and enjoy reading more.
Thank you very much! You too! ❤️
Cake and books make for a great holiday 😊
The best! 😊
Fabulous goal planning. I love that your first book of the year is something you might not read otherwise during the year.
Sorry this comment should have been posted to the video I just watched 😂
😆
Thank you! Not quite as ambitious as your goals... ☺️
I love this channel. Enjoy the holidays.
Aww, thank you so much!! ❤️
What an amazing year! 🎉
Yay, 2023 didn't treat me badly. 😊
Thank you, Britta, and Merry Christmas!🎄📚
Thank you, Emma! And happy reading in 2024! ❤️
All I heard was “cake” and then I think I blacked out…🤣 I can’t wait to read more books with you in 2024! Much love!!! 🎄💕🎄
😂😂😂 And yesss to all our buddyreads in 2024!! With cake.
Britta, I want to wish you the best of holidays and to thank you for all your recommendations. You always suggest books, most of which, I wouldn't have found without you. I have all the 6 classics that you are reading for 2024 on order so they should be arriving soon so I will be all set for next year and plan on readimg along with you. I would love it if you would consider maybe a dedicated video on each book for a more in depth review or maybe something where those of us that are also reading them could participate. Thanks for all your hard work and for sharing so much.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment, Mary! ❤️ And how wonderful that you will join me for all the 6 classics! And I will have a think how to do the review / participation. Have a fabulous year!
I do celebrate, but more with a nod than any loud hosannas. Merry Christmas to you likewise.
I like the idea of a nod (maybe with some bubbles?) Have a great 2024, David!
Happy holidays Britta! Enjoy your time off.
I'd forgot some of your projects so it was good to hear a recap; you did really well over all. I look forward to hearing your 2024 plans.
I too like to start a new year with a clean slate which last year meant I went to bed without a book on New Year's Eve. It felt wrong.😂
Thank you very much, Louise! ❤️ And I feel you re no book on New Year's Eve.... 🤣
Pretty much most goals achieved then Britta! 👍 Unlike you, I do better with very vague goals which allow me lots of wiggle room 😉 but I’m trying to plan as little as possible for 2024- famous last words 😉 Have a wonderful food and book filled holiday and look forward to reading with you in the new year!
Happy holidays Jo!!! ❤
You too Kim!
Haha, I can see you wiggle wiggle around your goals... 😂 And happy reading in 2024 to you, Jo!
Hi Britta, I have Latkes left over from Hanukkah and rice and beans. Puerto Rican style, a few Maigret books and I just bought the book Boulder that I wanted for a long time, so I’m good. Happy New Year and Aloha
That sounds like a great day, with a great book and delicious food. I hope you've enjoyed it!!
Merry Christmas Britta! Your nail color is beautiful!
Thank you! And a Happy New Year to you!
I love the idea of the author/country challenge. Sounds like you had a great year book-wise (sorry not work-wise!)
I don’t do much for Christmas - we had French fries and red wine for dinner tonight lol.
Oh, French Fries and red wine: count me in! ☺️
I am enjoying the quiet. A book that you might want to add for the new year is The Vulnerables by Sigirid Nunez
Oh, thank you very much for the recommendation!
Oh you keep lists on paper 😍 I love doing that, and bullet journaling. I’m thinking of making a challenge next year to finish 10 books that I’ve started, because since Covid I’ve become a moody reader. Something happens (usually work) and then I start a new one (usually an easier one). That’s why I’m starting the civil disobedience one that you recommended (thanks!) after Christmas, because I too have 2 weeks off. 🎉 Schöne Weihnachten and enjoy cake & books ❤
Oh, yes, computer files and excel are great but I love my pen and paper! And I feel you re starting a new book after getting distracted from the previous one... Happy New Year, Anne and good luck with the challenge! (And I hope the civil obedience book is helpful.)
Merry Christmas Britta! I hope you have a nice and peaceful break from work. Good job on your 500/501. So satisfying. Lol 😂
I'm enjoying my break very much! So much so, that I'm behind with answering comments... 🤣 And I'm already wondering with which 'pleasing' number you might come up this year...
I love your beautiful bullet grid. Now I’m thinking about supplementing my spreadsheet with something similar, and enjoying the thought. Thank you for inspiration!
I spent autumn months thinking about reading 90%+ works by women and nonbinary authors in 2024. Then the realities of the upcoming US elections hit. 2020 was hugely stressful: as a physically and mentally disabled person surrounded by queer friends and colleagues, my life is once again literally at stake. And I’m significantly more impaired this time, more fragile, and I owe it to myself, family, and caregivers to protect myself better.
I’ve started doing more rereading, which helps with mental escape. (I will be voting, but I know how already. I don’t need a year of confirming just how bad the bad guys are.) Unfortunately for my plans, that means reading mostly books by men. So I’ve worked out three separate TBR piles:
1. Books I have loved and am visiting again. Gender will be whatever it is and I won’t worry about it.
2. New-to-me works of horror, history, and whatever that are here to be used in my read what you own challenge. Here is where I uphold my original plan, and I have acquired, without much intent, so many great work by women and NB scholars and writers. Looking forward to it!
3. In between, works I have thought about reading over the years and bought with intent to read but never did. This heavy on genre fiction and is about 50/50 women and men, with a small sliver of authors who aren’t either. I’ll be emphasizing the ones who aren’t men but won’t be worrying much about it, since the focus is mental health here: the pleasure of satisfying old desires.
I anticipate a good rereading year despite the dreads and pains from current events.
I can't even imagine how stressful things must be for you. And I love the three different tbr's you have come up with. Despite everything, I wish you a happy 2024! ❤️
@ Thank you!