RecentReads: Sunday 17 March 2024

Let’s chat about my recent reads.
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube

Finished
#scifi

#1001Women #buddyread

#nonfiction #biography

Next up
#unhingedwomen

#marchmysterymadness #mystery #buddyread

And also still
#1001Women #lgbtq #buddyread

#poc #classics #1001Women

People & channels mentioned:
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Doris @alldbooks9165
Lisa @TheUnhingedWomanBookClub

Read along with me!
1. Six classics I want to read in 2024
Schedule:
#PoC

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 YouTube channel:

Find me elsewhere:

I also wrote some books:
Fiction:
available in Dutch

also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Danish, Hebrew and Turkish

Non-fiction (available only in Dutch):

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)

and for German readers:
- Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
- Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
- Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)

[CuriousReader]

Love a book centering around an elderly female character! All Passion Spent sounds wonderful, there's something especially nice about reading books where the character is facing an important turning-point in their lives, with the coming of spring. It reminds me of Enchanted April and the ladies freeing themselves from their everyday lives with the short reprieve in Italy.

[BookChatWithPat]

Hi Britta. I hope you've been able to get some rest, and I also hope that your mom is improving. I love Sarah Waters' novels. Take care!

[emmavd]

Thank you, Britta!🌷I’ve enjoyed All Passion Spent very much too. Another book dealing with second chances and fulfillment late in life is And the Birds Rained Down by Canadian author Jocelyne Saucier. Art and mental illness play a central role in it as well. For me it has one of the most memorable female characters ever! It was published in French about ten years ago (and then translated into many languages) and has won a bunch of prestigious prizes.

[alldbooks]

I read one for MMM again this year. I’m so proud. 😀

[bethannebruninga-socolar]

All Passion Spent sounds incredibly interesting, and one I would definitely like to get to!

[melissahouse]

Ah Mitford Sisters & All Passion Spent (great title) sound right up my alley 🤗 Thank you Britta & i hope you're managing to recharge your batteries 😉👩‍❤‍👩☺

[kayhammock]

Hi Britta. I always enjoy your videos. I hope your mother is doing better and that you are taking care of yourself, getting good rest. ❤ ps. Your complexion is beautiful.

[louisep]

I just picked up the first Detective Linley book from the library (the font is HUGE!) so I'm finally going to find out what you and Heidi love so much. I'm looking forward to it.

[sarahhepworth]

I just finished The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters. I really liked it. I have a copy of Tipping the Velvet so will read that one next. Looking forward to your review.

[scallydandlingaboutthebooks]

I enjoyed All Passion Spent and felt it would have been so fresh at the time it was written.

[elfieausten]

Hi Britta, hope you're okay. I miss your videos, but real life comes first. Just wanted to let you know your absence does not go unnoticed. Wishing you all the best!

[StephaniePatterson-jbit]

Deborah wrote her own memoir, “Wait For Me.” You can find her in two letter collections. “In Tearing Haste.” This is a collection of her correspondence with Patrick Leigh Fermor. Also you might like “Letters Between Six Sisters” which is a collection that features letters written by the Mitfords to each other. I think Charlotte Moseley edited both volumes. Nancy Mitford’s letters have also been collected as have Jessica’s. As you might expect, Nancy’s are filled with wit and Jessica’s are filled with politics.

[anneworks]

Hi Britta, I'm not on all the social media, so I do it here. Just letting you know that I think of you and hoping you're okay under the circumstances. 🙋‍♀️

[sandra.]

Britta, This is the only social media I use so I'm not sure if you posted somewhere else about your absence. I hope you are okay and will be back soon.

[LaughingStockfarm]

Leckie is on my TBR and I am definitely looking forward to taking on Translation State. After seeing comments about LeGuin’s lack of gender neutral terms in Left Hand of Darkness (by some youngster who didn’t live through the time) I was reminded of Marge Piercy’s experiment with alternative gender pronouns and so I’ve just started Woman On the Edge of Time.

Isn’t it funny how we get in cars, get on busses, trains, and ships. And especially interesting with spaceships, because one certainly can’t travel on a space ship, one can only travel IN a space ship. 😆