September 2024: Tops & Flops

Let’s chat about my tops and flops of September. (And yes, I'm behind with answering comments. Again. SORRY!)
#amreading #bookreviews #booktube
Categories:
Tops
Book I thought about the most
Book that surprised me the most
Best non fiction book
Flops
Two books that just didn’t work or that I disliked
Books mentioned (in alphabetical order):
Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (1929): / 1280768.the_last_septe...
#shortyseptember #Irishliterature #1001Women #Sandysbookclub
Siri Hustvedt, Memories of the Future (2019): / memories-of-the-future
Mira Jacob, Good Talk (2019): / good-talk
#graphicnovel #memoir #poc #reread
George Sand, Indiana, transl. from the French by Sylvia Raphael (1832): / 104260.indiana
#classic #translatedfiction #1001Women #buddyread
I forgot to mention: this was a buddyread with JoSmith
Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (1989): / sexing-the-cherry
#historicalfiction
People and channels mentioned:
Sandy ‪@MsReadsAlot‬
JoSmith
Read along with me!
1. Three classics I want to read in the second half of 2024
July / August: Emilia Pardo Bazán, The House of Ulloa, transl. from the Spanish by Paul O’Prey (1886): / the-house-of-ulloa
September / October: George Sand, Indiana, transl. from the French by Sylvia Raphael (2001 / 1832): / 104260.indiana
November / December: Mitchitsuna no Haha, The Gossamer Years, transl. from the Japanese by Edward Seidensticker (1989 / 974): / 186608.the_gossamer_years
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)
Name of my RUclips channel:
I stole name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com...
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): www.uitgeverij...
available in Dutch
The Decision (2015): hauspublishing....
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): www.aufbau-verl...
also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Danish, Hebrew and Turkish
Non-fiction (available only in Dutch):
De goede advocaat (2017): www.uitgeverijc...
Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004): www.singeluitg...
De zwerftocht van een leider (2000): www.singeluitg...
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)
www.hodder.co....
and for German readers:
Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
www.hoffmann-un...

[@1zangelique]

Re: Auster (who died this year) and Hustvedt. I recall Joyce Carol Oates saying years ago that there was a feature about her in a major magazine that referred to her as "a professor's wife," which she was--but she was a professor too! (I hope Hustvedt writes about Auster if she's up to it; that might help her during this mourning period.) Thanks for the great video!

[@ameliareads589]

I really finally have to pick up Memories of the Future. Thanks to you, I own a copy.

[@chiming_]

My upstairs neighbours find renovating their homes are suitable anytime during the day and night.

[@MsTerriB]

LOL! It sounded like someone upstairs had an upset stomach! After I posted my October TBR video I realized that it had picked up one of my neighbors running a power tool - noisy neighbors completely unaware that we are FILMING, right?! 😂

[@alldbooks9165]

Interesting re graphic novel. I have always tried to call it graphic memoir, too.

[@thomasceneri867]

Hello! I read The Blazing World recently by Hustvedt, and I didn’t like it at all. However, I did read (I believe) The Enchantment of Lily Dahl when I was much younger, and I remember enjoying it very much. I have The Last September for years! I really red to read it. Bowen was very good friends with Eudora Welty. From my memory (I saw the film) it involves a wealthy Anglo-Irish family (Protestant).

[@artie13-o8i]

I admire your mental toughness. You are a soldier indeed and I hope to read Memories of the Future. You might try Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa a feminist Palestinian author. I think you will like it. Hang in there!

[@barbaraboethling596]

I finally read Sexing the Cherry also. My impression was of utter confusion. The book may have tried to comment on women searching for self against a backdrop of a male dominated history, but it sure took a fuzzy, erratic approach that left me in the dust. I like quirky writing, but this wasn't for me.

[@susprime7018]

The noise was fine, these things happen, someone is having a house built across the street from our house, so I'll see a porta potty from my study windows for months.😂