1001 Women: Check-in

Let’s chat about my progress with the 1001-Women-Project!
#1001women #amreading #booktube
My 1001-Goodreads-Shelf: www.goodreads....
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): / big-sister-little-sist...
#nonfiction #China #buddyread
Ani Gjika, Unruled Body (2023): / an-unruled-body
#memoir #readingeurope
Amy Hempel, Reasons to Live, stories (1985): / 33300.reasons_to_live
#shortstories #SandysBookclub
Clarice Lispector, Hour of the Star, transl. from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser (1977): / hour-of-the-star
#translatedfiction #buddyread
Michitsuna no Haha, The Gossamer Years, transl. from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker (974): / gossamer-years
#translatednonfiction
Eudora Welty, The Optimist’s Daughter (1972): / 1044214.the_optimist_s...
#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): / 33300.reasons_to_live
Mar/Apr - Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (1993): / 77554.the_stone_diaries
May/June - Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus (1977): / delta-of-venus
July/Aug - Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love (1945): / the-pursuit-of-love
Sept/Oct - Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752): / 767478.the_female_quixote
Nov/Dec - Margaret Mazzantini, Don’t Move, transl. from the Italian by John Cullen (2001): / 472800.don_t_move
Reading Europe: Countries: www.countries-...
My TBR (the first 5 books):
🇦🇱 1 Albania: Ani Gjika, An Unruled Body (Memoir / 2023): / an-unruled-body
🇦🇩 Andorra-----
🇦🇲 2 Armenia: Mariam Petrosyan, The Gray House, transl. by Yuri Machkasov (2009): / the-gray-house
🇦🇹 3 Austria: Lilian Faschinger, Magdalena, die Sünderin / Magdalena, the Sinner, transl. by Shaun Whiteside (1995): / magdalena-the-sinner
🇦🇿 4 Azerbaijan: Banine, Days in the Caucasus, transl. by Anna Thompson-Ahmadova (1945): / days-in-the-caucasus (or: Ella Leya, The Orphan Sky (2015): / the-orphan-sky )
🇧🇾 5 Belarus: Volha Hapeyeva, My Garden of Mutants, transl. by Annie Rutherford (2021): / in-my-garden-of-mutants
Name of my UA-cam 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...

[@Ali-AvidReader]

This is such a fantastic project Britta, love hearing about the books you are reading for it.

[@CandySoulAndSoil]

Britta I’ve absolutely loved finding your goodreads and was so very inspired. I’ve spent the last week piecing my own list together too it’s been so fun

[@cuppa.books.]

I don't think I could ever commit to such a big project but I enjoy hearing about it 🙂

[@books_and_tea_with_me7689]

I love this idea, I am working on the reading around the world challenge now and this is a wonderful idea for my next project

[@josmith5992]

So fascinating hearing about your experience with the Lispector Britta. She’s an author I’ve been interested in as I know Ros loves her but also I’ve heard she isn’t the easiest to read. Guess I’ll just have to try her myself and see what I think!

[@penelopegough6050]

I have been away and I’m a bit behind with everything really but I did find a little book with a book mark in it. Clear by Carys Davies which is absolutely delightful set on a remote island in Scotland in 1843. Can’t imagine why I did not finish it. Anyway have now. At 150 pages it’s a far cry from David Copperfield . I also have Seeing Further by Esther Kinsky, a writer I came across when in the midst of my German books in translation project (which does seem to be ongoing). Looking forward to that. I love your updates Britta. 🥰

[@debtomaselli4586]

When you mentioned Welty before, I picked up the audio of One Writer's Beginnings and found that amazing - the detailed observations of her early 20th life are crafted in a compelling way. I abandoned the novel, but I think I want to reread some of her stories.
It must have been hard to select the authors for your project. Do you change your list at all when some new amazing woman is published? Or does that reading go to some other list? (I'm sorry if I missed the info about years covered somewhere.)