6 Degrees of Separation #5 - Making Bookish Connections
This meme is something totally different but SO fun. I enjoy the way it makes me look for different or unusual connections between books. Join in the first Saturday of each month and share your list.....
This is a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain of seven. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the other books on the list, only to the one next to it in the chain. The rules are:
Link the books together in any way you like.
Provide a link in your post to the meme at Books are My Favourite and Best.
Share these rules in your post.
Paste the link to your post in the comments on Kate’s post and/or the Linky Tool on that post.
Invite your blog readers to join in and paste their links in the comments and/or the Linky Tool.
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The starting book for this month is Beach Read by Emily Henry. I read this book in August last year and it's the third of hers I've read. I gave it a 3.5 rating.....I guess it took three of them to realize her books are really not for me. This one is about a couple of authors struggling with writer's block, meet in a small town, set a competition, sparks fly.
There are several directions I could go: a book set in summer, or on the beach, or location, or repeating a word in the title, etc.
First Degree: The Plot is also a book about books, and about a struggling author, but this one has an author dying and his teacher steals his manuscript and publishes it as his own. Shenanigans!
Second Degree: More shenanigans in Crime Writer as the author in this book suffers through writer's block but is surprised by a very creative solution - part mystery, part fantasy, part book about books.
Third Degree: Exploring a different kind of fantasy, Vintage 1954 is written by a very popular French author and the shenanigans in this story involve a group of friends drinking a very special bottle of wine - and when they wake up, they're in 1950s Paris! A simple time travel story but delightfully evocative of 'old' Paris.
Fourth Degree: No time travel, but The Forger is also set in Paris. I read this way before I even thought of having a book blog - it's historical fiction about an art forger in early WWII instead of a book forger.
Fifth Degree: Another historical novel also set during WWII in England, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society returns to the book theme as an author corresponds with a group that used their club to foil the Germans.
Sixth Degree: My final connection is The Little Paris Bookshop - a lonely man runs a bookshop on a barge in Paris until he receives a letter that sets him on a quest. So the tenuous connection is letters, skipping around it also connects to Paris, and connecting back to Beach Read as a book about books for a wonky circle.
6 Degrees of Separation is one of the most fun AND challenging memes. A few of these connections this month came to me pretty quickly. But by the end, I struggled a bit and my final one is a bit ...... light. But it works for me.
I'm looking forward to seeing the connections other bloggers make. Do you want to play? (it's only monthly, not a huge commitment)
