Slightly late June Wrap-Up. Plus, yes, another rant...

Let’s wrap up my June reading. #wrapup #bookreviews #booktube Books mentioned (in alphabetical order): Virginia Evans, The Correspondent (2025):   / the-correspondent   #bookprize #debut Siri Hustvedt, Ghost Stories (2026):   / ghost-stories   #nonfiction #memoir Ali Smith, Gliff (2024):   / gliff   #dystopian #buddyread Also mentioned: Nicolas Bogg, Baldwin – A Love Story (2025):   / baldwin   #nonfiction #biography #btp Chloe Dalton, Raising Hare (2025):   / raising-hare   #nonfiction #memoir #btp James Rebank, Place of Tides (2025):   / the-place-of-tides   #memoir #nature #btp People & channels mentioned: Jo Smith on Goodreads:   / jo   Booktube Prize: ‪@BookTubePrize‬ Name of my YouTube channel: I stole name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: http://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): https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20... available in Dutch The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the... or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): http://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): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/D... Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-... De zwerftocht van een leider (2000): https://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) https://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) http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto...