Reading Plans 2020

Happy New Year everybody! Let’s talk about my reading plans for 2020.
And: no, Louise Erdrich is NOT Canadian!

My monthly reading schedule:
* a book off the tbr (fiction or nonfiction)
* a classic
* a translated book
* a book by a BIPOC or Asian author

Year-long challenges:
1. Read Around the World Bookclub
Mel’s channel @MelsBooklandAdventures: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpyooWkAk5PyjfY-ksJtv5g
GoodreadsGroup: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/214339-the-read-around-the-world-book-club
January-read: Alia Trabucco Zerán, The Remainder, transl. from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes (2019 / 2015): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40201224-the-remainder
Shawn’s review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90x2jD7Q1oQ

2. Reading Women podcast: https://www.readingwomenpodcast.com/
Challenge 2020: https://www.readingwomenpodcast.com/reading-women-challenge-2020
Kendra’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeOsY9TGb2UitTOr-Qn5wJg

3. Reading German Books in 2020
GoodreadsGroup: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1044753-reading-german-books-in-2020
My announcement Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m-BgjibiZ0

4. Author Spotlight: Louise Erdrich
I have NO idea why I said she was Canadian, she is a US-author... Sigh...
1st book Love Medicine (1984): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/904286.Love_Medicine
‘buddychallenge’ with Terri @MsTerriB: https://www.youtube.com/user/MsTerriB

5. Reading the Decade
2010
Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl who Fell From the Sky / debut
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6449290-the-girl-who-fell-from-the-sky
Stacey Schiff, Cleopatra – A Life: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7968243-cleopatra

Find me elsewhere:
website: www.brittaboehler.com
twitter: https://twitter.com/Britta_Boehler
goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/britta.boehler1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittaboehler/

By the way:
I stole the 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

I also wrote some books:
The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2104): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01

Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php

as 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/