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Books & other things mentioned:
- Nora Roberts, Your One / Chronicles of the One #1 (December 2017): /book/show/3...

- Carrie Vaughn, The Wild Dead / Bannerless-saga #2 (17 July 2018): /book/show/3...

- Sylvia Townsend Warner, Summer Will Show (1936): /book/show/1...

Shawn @ Shawnthebookmaniac:
(Review starts at 2:58)
Eric: lonesomereader:
(Review starts at 23:21)

- Daphne du Maurier, The Loving Spirit (1931): /book/show/3...
Ange @beyondthepages:
Daphne du Maurier-project: /group/show/...

- Wendy Mitchell, Somebody I Used to Know (June 2018): /book/show/3...
short film with Mitchell:

posted by Britta Böhler on March, 18 ]]> /author_blog_posts/16886400-recentreads-out-of-place Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:23:35 -0700 /author_blog_posts/16886400-recentreads-out-of-place


Books & other things mentioned:

- Patricia Grace, Chappy (2015)
Mel’s Read Around the World-bookclub on goodreads: /group/show/...

Mel’s channel @MelsBooklandAdventures:

Haka performed by the All Blacks:

- Leni Zumas, Red Clocks (2018): /book/show/3...

- Octavia E. Butler, Kindred (1979): /book/show/6...

- Rachel Kadish, The Weight of Ink (2017): /book/show/3...
interview with Kadish:
Geraldine Brook, The People of the Book (2008): /book/show/1...

posted by Britta Böhler on March, 23 ]]> /author_blog_posts/16795731-recentreads-wounded-souls Sun, 13 May 2018 13:22:07 -0700 /author_blog_posts/16795731-recentreads-wounded-souls


Books & other things mentioned:

- Nora Ikstena, Soviet Milk, translated from the Latvian by Margita Gailitis (2018 / published in Latvia in 2015)
buddy-read with Shawn @ShawnTheBookManiac:

Kamil’s review @WhatKamilReads:

Eric’s reviews @TheLonesomeReader:
- Soviet Milk and my Family Recipe for Latvian piragi: ...
- Review (and interview with Ikstena):
...

- Elizabeth Gaskell, North & South (1855)
buddy-read with Olive @abookolive:

- Edna O’Brien, The Little Red Chairs (2015)
The Karadžić-trial:

posted by Britta Böhler on February, 17 ]]> /author_blog_posts/16765600-recentreads-fates-furies Mon, 07 May 2018 00:25:06 -0700 /author_blog_posts/16765600-recentreads-fates-furies


Books & other things mentioned:

- Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists (2018)
Olive’s more positive take @abookolive:

- Ursula le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (1971)

- Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You (2017)
Women’s Prize shortlist:
Jennifer’s review @InsertLiteraryPunHere:

posted by Britta Böhler on December, 05 ]]> /author_blog_posts/16704253-recentreads-laws-of-attraction Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:37:48 -0700 /author_blog_posts/16704253-recentreads-laws-of-attraction


Books & other things mentioned:

- Mai Al-Nakib, The Hidden Light of Objects (2014)
Mel’s bookclub Read Around the World:
Nakib’s website:

- Aminatta Forna, Happiness (March 2018)

- Emma Newman, Before Mars / Planetfall #3 (April 2018)

- Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion (April 2018)
my gushy review-video:

posted by Britta Böhler on January, 06 ]]> /author_blog_posts/16606789-recentreads-heavy-lifting Mon, 02 Apr 2018 01:27:31 -0700 /author_blog_posts/16606789-recentreads-heavy-lifting


Books & other things mentioned:
- Rafia Zakaria, The Upstairs Wife (2015)
Video: “Help me pick my next read�:
Next up in April: Jennifer Miller, The Gadfly (2012)

- Mary Beard, Women & Power (2017)

- Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race (2017)
Interview:

posted by Britta Böhler on January, 06 ]]> /author_blog_posts/16544856-recentreads-missing-pieces Sun, 18 Mar 2018 06:05:27 -0700 /author_blog_posts/16544856-recentreads-missing-pieces


- Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna (2009)
video ‘Pick my next read�:
and up next: Rafia Zakaria, The Upstairs Wife

- Jess Kidd, The Hoarder (2018)
Open Letters Review:

- Edwidge Danticat, Claire of the Sealight
Read around the world bookclub: /group/show/...

- Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie / debut (2018)

posted by Britta Böhler on March, 15 ]]> /author_blog_posts/16480526-recentreads-criminal-intent Sun, 04 Mar 2018 06:19:03 -0800 /author_blog_posts/16480526-recentreads-criminal-intent


Books and other things mentioned
#MarchMysteryMadness:
- Steve’s video with links to all the hosts @stevedonoghue:
- goodreads group: /group/show/...

- Jane Harper, The Dry (2016)
- Jane Harper, Force of Nature (2017)
David’s hilarious video on, among other things, The Dry (2016), @thepoptimist:

- Josephine Tey, Daughter of Time / Inspector Alan Grant #5 (1951)

- Laline Paull, The Ice (2017)

- Sarah Perry, After the Eclipse (2017)

posted by Britta Böhler on February, 09 ]]> /author_blog_posts/16383282-recentreads-three-debuts Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:20:48 -0800 /author_blog_posts/16383282-recentreads-three-debuts


Books and other things mentioned:

Kerry Andrew, Swansong (debut / January 2018)
Performance of Who Are We in the RAH:

S.J. Tudor, The Chalk Man (debut / January 2018)
Steve’s review in Open Letters Review:

Sue Burke, Semiosis (debut / February 2018)
My review in Open Letters Review:

posted by Britta Böhler on March, 18 ]]> /author_blog_posts/16350650-newbooks-tbr-february-2018 Sun, 11 Feb 2018 09:16:35 -0800 /author_blog_posts/16350650-newbooks-tbr-february-2018


Literary fiction / debut:
- Zoe Gilbert, Folk (short stories / 8 Feb)
interview with Gilbert:

- Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry (stories / 6 Feb)

Science fiction:
- Sue Burke, Semiosis (6 Feb / debut)

- Jon Walton, Starlings (short stories / 13 Feb)

posted by Britta Böhler on March, 07 ]]>