1001 Women: Update

Let’s chat about my progress with the 1001-Women-Project!
#1001women #amreading #booktube

My 1001-Goodreads-Shelf: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/38530619-britta-b-hler?shelf=01women1001
Numbers on 1 January 2025 / 7 February 2025
Read 553 - 557
Unread 448 - 444

Books mentioned, in alphabetical order:
Jung Chang, Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister (2019): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44138990-big-sister-little-sister-red-sister
#nonfiction #China #buddyread

Ani Gjika, Unruled Body (2023): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128123750-an-unruled-body
#memoir #readingeurope

Amy Hempel, Reasons to Live, stories (1985): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33300.Reasons_to_Live
#shortstories #SandysBookclub

Clarice Lispector, Hour of the Star, transl. from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser (1977): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17573223-hour-of-the-star
#translatedfiction #buddyread

Michitsuna no Haha, The Gossamer Years, transl. from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker (974): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60803410-gossamer-years
#translatednonfiction

Eudora Welty, The Optimist’s Daughter (1972): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1044214.The_Optimist_s_Daughter
#buddyread

People & channels mentioend:
JoSmith
Sandy @MsReadsAlot
Heidi @myreadinglife8816
Terri @MsTerriB

My reading projects 2025:
1001-Bookclub - Cohost with Sandy @MsReadsAlot
Jan/Feb - Amy Hempel, Reasons to Live / Stories (1985): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33300.Reasons_to_Live
Mar/Apr - Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (1993): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77554.The_Stone_Diaries
May/June - Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus (1977): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50233650-delta-of-venus
July/Aug - Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love (1945): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25853040-the-pursuit-of-love
Sept/Oct - Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/767478.The_Female_Quixote
Nov/Dec - Margaret Mazzantini, Don’t Move, transl. from the Italian by John Cullen (2001): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472800.Don_t_Move

Reading Europe: Countries: https://www.countries-ofthe-world.com/countries-of-europe.html
My TBR (the first 5 books):
🇦🇱 1 Albania: Ani Gjika, An Unruled Body (Memoir / 2023): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128123750-an-unruled-body
🇦🇩 Andorra-----
🇦🇲 2 Armenia: Mariam Petrosyan, The Gray House, transl. by Yuri Machkasov (2009): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32703696-the-gray-house
🇦🇹 3 Austria: Lilian Faschinger, Magdalena, die Sünderin / Magdalena, the Sinner, transl. by Shaun Whiteside (1995): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3816405-magdalena-the-sinner
🇦🇿 4 Azerbaijan: Banine, Days in the Caucasus, transl. by Anna Thompson-Ahmadova (1945): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42935822-days-in-the-caucasus (or: Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky (2015): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22109866-the-orphan-sky)
🇧🇾 5 Belarus: Valzhyna Mort, Music for the Dead and the Resurrected (2020): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50403458-music-for-the-dead-and-resurrected

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/books/review/on-the-rules-of-literary-fiction-for-men-and-women.html?_r=1

Find me elsewhere:
website: www.brittaboehler.com (hasn’t been updated in a while, sorry…)
goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittaboehler/
X, formerly twitter: https://twitter.com/Britta_Boehler

I also wrote some books:
Fiction:
- De juiste houding (2021): https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20juiste%20houding-T717.php
available in Dutch

- The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01
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/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php

- Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/crisis-in-de-rechtstaat/

- De zwerftocht van een leider (2000): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-arbeiderspers/boek/de-zwerftocht-van-een-leider/

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/detail.page?id=OyxVSj8qaz8LdzSTmFvOZFbcgK5hHe5EsnGIqAwZPIsQ/c8OEdhES6cW

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/autoren-info/britta-bolt/

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