May 2019: Tops & Flops

Let’s talk about the tops & flops of my May reading Tops: Best re-read: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (1814):   / mansfield-park   Most surprising book: Anna-Maria Crowhurst, The Illumination of Ursula Flight (2018):   / the-illumination-of-ursula-flight   buddyread with Doris @AllDBooks:    / @alldbooks9165   Book I thought about the most: Han Kang, Human Acts (translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith / 2016):   / human-acts   buddyread with Jaclyn @sixminutesforme:    / jaclynlindsaysmith   #asianreadathon Flops Most disappointing re-read: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847):   / 10210.jane_eyre   Just not quite: Joanne Ramos, The Farm (2019):   / the-farm   Find me elsewhere: website: www.brittaboehler.com twitter:   / britta_boehler   goodreads:   / 5497508.britta_b_hler   facebook:   / britta.boehler1   Instagram:   / 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/boo... I also wrote some books: The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the... or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2104): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php... Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/D... 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/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.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto...