Let’s chat about my tops & flops of June 2020
Tops
Book I thought about the most
Emuna Elon, House on Endless Waters, transl. from the Hebrew by Anthony Berries and Linda Yechiel (2016/2020): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49994546-house-on-endless-waters
Buddyread with Brian @Bookish: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrFo3tDRDVbX7PZjWx1qYA
Biggest surprise
Christina Baker-Kline, A Piece of the World (2017): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30255942-a-piece-of-the-world
Buddyrad with Doris @AllDBooks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIUd11Ux5dXkADUynY-4MCA
Best nonfiction book
Rebecca Stott, Darwin’s Ghosts (2012): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18049589-darwin-s-ghosts
Buddyread with Heidi LMyReadingLife: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftcdJ7T0cQaz2DIV9abD6w
#DecadeRead2012
Flops
Alice Bolin, Dead Girls / Essays (2018): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36461782-dead-girls
Buddyread with Kathleen @KathleenAnn: https://www.youtube.com/user/pizzorama
Min Jin Lee, Pachinko (2017): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29983711-pachinko
Another Buddyread with Heidi
Find me elsewhere:
website: www.brittaboehler.com
twitter: https://twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/britta.boehler1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittaboehler/
By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/on-the-rules-of-literary-fiction-for-men-and-women.html?_r=1
I also wrote some books:
The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2104): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01
Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php
as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt), The Posthumus Mysteries:
- Lonely Graves (2014)
- Lives Lost (2015)
- Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
https://www.hodder.co.uk/authors/detail.page?id=OyxVSj8qaz8LdzSTmFvOZFbcgK5hHe5EsnGIqAwZPIsQ/c8OEdhES6cW
and for German readers:
- Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
- Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
- Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/autoren-info/britta-bolt/
