If you’re having problems reading big books: Here are five tips!
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0:00 Intro
2:42 Tip #1 Expectations
5:25 Tip #2 Research
10:00 Tip #3 Slow but steady
12:49 Tip #4 Combo’s
14:43 Tip #5 Buddies
16:54 Extra: After you've finished

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):   / thehouseofulloa  

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 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/boo...

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): https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20...
available in Dutch

The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the...
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): http://www.aufbauverlag.de/index.php...
also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Danish, Hebrew and Turkish

Nonfiction (available only in Dutch):
De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/D...

Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de...

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

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/deta...

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.hoffmannundcampe.de/auto...