July Check-In

Let’s chat about my July reading so far. #amreading #yesteryear #bookreviews Books mentioned (in alphabetical order): Anna Boullosa, The Book of Anna, transl. from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee (2016):   / the-book-of-anna   #1001Women #translatedfiction #womentranslatewomen Yael Inokai, A Simple Intervention, transl. from the German by Marielle Sutherland (2022):   / a-simple-intervention   #translatedfiction #German #buddyread Andrea Levy Small Island (2004):   / 587076.small_island   #1001Women #Caribbean #buddyread Maria Popova, Traversal (2026):   / traversal   #nonfiction Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping (1980):   / 11741.housekeeping   #literaryfiction #debut People and channel mentioned Jo on Goodreads:   / jo   Adam on IG: https://www.instagram.com/mementomori... Jess ‪@jessicatvordi‬ 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...