RecentReads: Sunday, 14 July 2024

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

Books Mentioned (in alphabetical order):
#Translated #GlobalSouth #1001Women #buddyread

#Unhinged #1001Women #buddyread

#crime #buddyread

#scifi #buddyread

#scifi #buddyread

#Nonfiction #SandysBookclub #1001Women

People and channels mentioned:
Terri @MsTerriB
Kathleen @KathleenAnnBooks

Jess Tvordi @jessicatvordi

Read along with me!
1. Three classics I want to read in the second half of 2024

2. Sandy’s 1001 Books Bookclub
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)

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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)

[julieaulava]

Would love a video about the works of Urusla Le Guin. Including pointers on where to start.

[krzysamm]

Please make a video about Ursula La Guin it would be very helpful 😊

[sarahhepworth]

Intrigued by your the unhinged woman project!

[deegrows]

An Ursula Le Guin video would be wonderful! Thank you! ✨

[jessicatvordi]

Thanks for the plug, Britta! I am watching this video from a campground outside of Yellowstone National Park!

[MarilynMayaMendoza]

Hi Britta, I like quiet mysteries as well as the ones you described. And I love Adam Dalegliesh. Thank you for featuring mysteries on your channel. Aloha

[myreadinglife]

How exciting that Jess’s book is out! 🎉

[melissahouse]

Angela Carter has always intrigued me but magical realism is so hit or miss with me 🤷‍♀The Schoolmaster however sounds 100% up my alley 😉👍🤓

[Tensytheneedlesmith]

Glad you're back! I would love to see a video focusing on Ursula Le Guin. She is one of my favorite authors. One of my favorite booktubers, Benjamin McEvoy, often does deep dive videos on particular novels and I learn so much from this type of content.

[josmith]

So true about buddy reading helping us read and enjoy books, if you find good buddy readers that is 😉 I’ve only ever read Wise Children by Angela Carter and that was many moons ago but I do have some of her short stories I might check out sooner rather than later.

[louisep]

I'm so happy to see you!
We are in the midst of another heatwave (35 today) and I'm finding my reading really suffers when it's hot. I'm just exhausted the whole time. I am working my way through Master Slave Husband Wife, and it's fabulous, though slowly.
I hope your back is continuing to improve, looks like you were in pain for a bit this time.

[cuppa.books.]

I always find Angela Carter's work interesting. I did a project a while ago reading all her books, I didn't always love them but I always got something from them. I also read a great biography of her. I thought the Arkady books were quite original when I read them but definitely agree you can't start with the second one.

[GaggingLit]

I love Angela Carter's stuff. Lovely to hear you enjoyed Nights at the Circus. My favourite novels of hers are probably the Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffmann & Heroes and Villains, as I find them so atmospheric. And yes to the Ursula K Le Guin video please. I still haven't read any of her stuff and don't know where to start.

[buchdeckel]

Please do a Video about Ursula k. Le Guin. I love her books

[LaughingStockfarm]

I’m currently reading Le Guin’s ‘Changing Planes’ which is a real hoot! It’s so different from the others I’ve read, clearly the voice of a woman who’s about had it with everything. 😆 Such sharp satire, and quite funny.

I’ve wondered about ‘A Desolation Called Peace’. I’ve read the first one, I had a bit of difficulty following what was going on (was it me?), and so not sure I’d like the second book. Is there much that carries over from the first book? Just wondering if I need to read it again before attempting the second; I have a vague recall of the first, but wondering if it’s enough to carry me through the second.