RecentReads: Sunday 28 January 204
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- Let’s chat about the books I’ve read recently.
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube
P.D. James, Cover Her Face / Adam Dalgliesh #1 (1962): / cover-her-face
#mystery #buddyread
Kira Cochrane, Women of the Revolution (2010): / women-of-the-revolution
#nonfiction #feminism
Jane Rawson, From the Wreck (2017): / from-the-wreck
#Reread #historicalfiction #AussieLit
PAFN:
Stranger in the Shogun’s City (2020): / stranger-in-the-shogun...
#nonfiction #biography
Next up (still)
Jennifer Ackerman, What an Owl Knows (2023): / what-an-owl-knows
#nonfiction #nature #buddyread
And also:
Namita Ghokhale, Blind Matriarch (2021): / the-blind-matriarch
#poc #globalsouth # buddyread
People & channels mentioned:
Terri @MsTerriB
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
JoSmith
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...
Women of the Revolution sounds up my alley.
It's interesting (albeit quite UK-oriented).
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Always so happy to see a comment from you!!
I read Nancy Drew and Perry Mason as a child, but P.D. James was my intro to mysteries as an adult. A friend of mine remarked that she only read mysteries. "Oh, I'd never do that!" I said She said, "Oh, you're just being a snob!" (Guilty, guilty guilty) She loaned me "Cover Her Face" and having spent most of my graduate school years reading "experimental fiction," I found I was delighted to read something that had a beginning, a middle and an end. And mystery reading introduced to all sorts of travel. I made my first trip to London because a Bouchercon was being held there. Indeed, I saw P.D. James interviewed (I swear Queen Elizabeth lent her her handbag for the occasion) as part of the conference. Don't give up on her. She really comes into her own in her later books. I enjoy your videos so much!
Had to chuckle about your comment and the snob-thing. I can relate... ☺️ And no, I won't give up on P.D: James! I have already planned to read the 2nd Dalgliesh in March.
@ She gets better as she gets farther away from the traditional cozy elements.
A historical compilation of feminist essay writing sounds good. Not my usual reading topic, but to read the actual writings as a sort of history and timeline of the topic is very appealing.
It's a very educational compilation, even if (of course) not every article is equally good or interesting.
I remember how much you loved From the Wreck, I hope her new one works as well- you’re so right, Australian books are not the easiest to get in the Northern Hemisphere. Very interested to hear more about the Owl book as I do love owls!
It's so sad about Australian literature being so hard to get here. 😞 And the Owl-book is really good!
I don't speak English well, but your videos are inspiring and fun. The selection of books really appeals to me. I really enjoy reading Ursula K. le guin. thank you very much.
Aww, thank you so much for the lovely compliment!! ❤️
Women of the Revolution went right on my “want to read” shelf. 😊
I'm not surprised! ☺️
You are right about Cover Her Face. I think James was too influenced by Christie in this book. The Dalgliesh novels got grittier as they went forward. I hope you will try some of the later books in the series.
Brian, which PD JAMES would you recommend for a first time reader of this author ? Thx
@@TKTalksBooks My favorites are Original Sin, Devices and Desires, The Murder Room, and Death in Holy Orders which were written in the 80s & 90s I think. There are some recurring secondary characters that are also detectives in the later books, but the books stand alone for the most part.
@@BookishTexan thank you so much!
Yes, that's what I've heard as well, thank you! I will read the 2nd Dalgliesh soon and the we will take it form there.
I loved From the Wreck, it's stayed with me - I might have to re-read it.
I'm so happy to hear this! ❤️
I like a cozy read sometimes, I wish Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym was more cozy, I was happy when Tom bought the farm and I wanted to shake Catherine, get a grip, you're being used, as well as I remember, Death at Pemberley was a swift read but yes, not as good as Children of Men.
Oh, that's good to know about the Barbara Pym, thank you, I haven't read that one yet.
Well, I think From the Wreck might just be for me. I'll have to see if it's available here in Canada.
I've been reading lots of murder this week ... Killers of a Certain Age and three Murderbot books.
I hope you will enjoy From the Wreck!! And yay to crime novels The Murderbot. ❤️
my darling Britta...no buddy read of Francisco? i was so looking to hear your such clearly thought out revealed interpretations...
Hi there! The buddyread got postponed, so I still haven't read Francisco... Not sure when we will read it, maybe in the spring.
My thoughts on Cover Her Face really echo those of @bookishtexan . After the first couple of novels you do get to see more of Adam Dalgleish as a person and a much more individual style of writing. I really recommend them in order too. I reread the whole series about 4/5 years ago and was totally worth it! Adam Dal-glee-sshh 🤓
Feminism across the decades intrigues me too. I spent my teens, twenties and thirties as a feminist before becoming a bit disenchanted by the way the movement was heading. (Now 61) It seemed to me to be more about women emulating men rather than being their own vision of female. I mean this in a general sense of course so please do not feel insulted anyone if you have other opinions. I am always open to other perspectives!
I will go on with the Dalgliesh-series and read the next one soon. The character (poet / police) intrigues me! ☺️And I completely agree with your take on the development of feminism and the current state of it. We are about the same age (I'm 2 yrs older) & I don't now about you, but I became more 'radical' with age....
Definitely more radical 😂@
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Yeah, who are those people who become more politically content with age? Do they feel like everything's been sorted out once and for all?! @
@@sabineottala3588 Yay for the Grey Radicals!!
I was going to recommend The Right to Sex, but went to see your Goodreads first to be sure you hadn't read it yet (you did, happy to see you liked it too!), so I searched for "sex" in your shelves thinking surely there would be few books, but it seems that being a feminist and an Anne Sexton reader will make you read a lot of things with "sex" in it lol.
Had to laugh so hard about your comment. 😂 And Right to Sex was fabulous!
I enjoy P.D. James's mysteries as mysteries because I do like the Agatha Christie style type of mystery. However, there is an undercurrent of homophobia in her novels (at least the ones I've read). It's quite off-putting, and it's the main reason I have not read any of her novels in years.
Having reread them in the last few years, I don’t recall this, but will take another look. Agatha Christie has her prejudices too and in the end i have just come to accept them as being of their time. Not right of course…….
Yes, the work of many authors (unfortunately) of this time period didn't age well when it comes to prejudices...
Hello Britta, would it be helpful to know an Australian Booktube creator, who might be able to help procure a copy of the Jane Rawson novel? @AngelasBookcase is a lovely channel I discovered recently. She lives in Perth.
That's a good tip, thank you very much! (Subscribed to Angela's channel right away ☺️)