March Reading Plans
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- čas přidán 8. 07. 2024
- Let’s chat about my (tentative) reading plans for March.
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube
Ida B. Wells, The Light of Truth (2014): / the-light-of-truth
#1001Women #poc #classics
Classic #2 (March& April):
Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron, transl. from the French by Paul Chilton (1984 / 1558): / 505222.the_heptameron
#1001Women #translatedfiction #classics
Sandy’s Bookclub:
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928): / 1845440.the_well_of_lo...
#1001Women #lgbtq
RunwrightReads Bookclub
Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000): / 4200.white_teeth
#poc
BookNaturalist BookClub
Lauren Groff, Vaster Wilds (2023): / the-vaster-wilds
BuzzBook
Kristin Hannah, The Women (Feb 2024): / the-women
Oh, and I said in the video that the book is set in WW II, that is not true; it's the Vietnam War!
MMM:
P.D. James, A Mind to Murder / Adam Dalgliesh-Series #2 (1963): / a-mind-to-murder
#mystery #buddyread
Elizabeth George, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner / Inspector Lynley Mystery #10 (1999): / 31373.in_pursuit_of_th...
#mystery #buddyread
People & channels mentioned:
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Doris @alldbooks9165
Karen @RunwrightReads
Terri @MsTerriB
Read along with me!
1. Six classics I want to read 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...
Thinking of you and your mum Britta 🤝 & thank you for all the uploads 💓 wishing you the best 🙏👩❤💋👩
Thank you so much, Melissa!! ❤️
Good to see you upbeat despite the tiredness. I really enjoyed the PDJames series, would like to read them again someday.
Thank you! And I'm very much looking forward to book #2 of the Dalgliesh-series.
Britta, I'm sending positive thoughts you and your mother's way. You have brought so much joy to me with your videos. Thank you for another great video.
I must agree, discovered Britta late last year and look forward to her frank, interesting videos. ❤
Thank you so much! ❤️
Aww, thank you! ❤️
I am always ready to start another Lynley novel!
Me, too! 😊
I’m very much looking forward to where PD James takes us next! Hoping it’s a bit more gritty 😁
Me, too!!
The Vaster Wilds was memorable for me. I can't wait to hear what you think.
Please take care of yourself while also caring for your Mom.
Thank you very much for your well wishes, Julie! ❤️ Looking forward to vaster Wilds, so many different opinions about this book...
Thank you, Britta!🌷I’ve just finished reading White Teeth and loved it! Since it’s been my first experience with Zadie Smith, I have no comparison with her other works. What I can say though is that didn’t see the twist at the end coming, which, I think made a great, original story, perfect. You’re in for a treat. I’m glad to hear that you had the same reaction to Matrix I had. I’m now looking forward to yours (whenever you have time of course) and Heidi’s reviews of The Vaster Wilds. I wish you and your mother all the best.🥰
Thank you very much for your well wishes, Emma! ❤️ And I hope I will love White teeth as much as you did.
I was struck by you saying you needed to normalize your day. I too when life was tough did the same thing. I enjoy your choice of books.
Trying to normalize the day is the only way to get through things like this, I guess. And also: thank you!
Best wishes with your reading choices. Happy reading.
Thank you very much!
What a list! I think Marguerite de Navarre sounds great. I have a copy of Vaster Wilds and the Well of Loneliness, in fact all the books you mentioned. It will be a busy month! And I’m off on holidays so maybe not a lot of reading. Thanks Britta.🤭
Enjoy your holiday, Penelope!
So sorry to hear about your mother, I've experienced similar with a grandparent and it is difficult for everyone. I hope you enjoy The Vaster Wilds! I really did, I found it so compelling, though I've never read Lauren Groff before. I'm so excited to read The Women, my copy just arrived! I think her writing gets better with each book so I have high hopes for it. Good luck with your March reading!
Thank you for your kind words! And I really hope I will enjoy Vaster Wilds & The Women.
I loved White Teeth but I never really warmed to Smith's other work (though I haven't read her latest yet). And yes, she is someone who makes you want to like her books; she's so intelligent and interesting.
The Well of Loneliness was a cult book when I was in my twenties and I read it then, but was secretly very bored by it and felt relieved when I reached the last page... I was probably too young to appreciate it. 🙂
Fingers crossed I will like White Teeth! And your comment about Well of Loneliness made me laugh. Let's hope I don't find it boring. ☺️
I was not very interested when I read about The Women by Kristin Hannah but I loved The Great Alone.
I hope The Women lives up to the hype...
@It could?
The Women was set in Vietnam war and really came alive to me as my college and contemporary friends were conscripted to go to Vietnam in the late 1960's and 1970's. I listened to it on audio. Have just read all of Lauren Groff's books including The Vaster Wilds bit found it not to live up to its hype. Hope your mother is o.k. thinking of you at this stress filled time. .
Thank you fro your best wishes, I really appreciate it! ❤️ And I have the same experience with Groff's books, but I hope Vaster Wilds will be the exception to the rule...
I hope your mother is doing better Britta. I'm sending good wishes to you both. ❤
I am very hit and miss (mostly miss) with Kristin Hannah. I've liked some, liked part of others and loathed The Nightingale - I think I'm an outlier on that one. I'll be interested in hearing your thoughts on The Women, should you have time and energy to get to it.
Thank you so much for your well wishes, Louise, I really appreciate it! ❤️ I'm really curious to read The Women (probably towards the end of the month).
I read Hannah’s “The Nightingale “ It is much beloved. However, I found her writing flat and felt that she had created 21st century characters and put them in a novel set in WW II. But if you tell me “The Women” is worth it I’ll read it.
Let's hope The Women is worth the hype!
I’m sorry to hear that your mom isn’t doing well. Please take care.
Thank you very much! ❤️
I love the Elizabeth George Inspector Lynley series! I just finished book 16 and am just starting Believing The Lie. I hope all goes well with your mom
Thank you fro your well-wishes, Deborah! ❤️ And yay for Lynley!!
I loved White Teeth! Looking forward to your thoughts. 😊
I hope that I will love it, too!
I’ve heard several readers I trust that say about Zadie Smith which I think is why I’ve avoided her thus far, keen to see what you think of White Teeth and the Kristin Hannah Britta, I read one of hers for the first Booktube Prize and it was decent.
I will go for decent 😊. And I still have hopes for White Teeth because so many people loved it.
I have read a few of Kristin Hannah's books and I am calling it now that you will not like this book 😂
Oh dear, you know my taste pretty well, but I hope you're wrong for once. 😊