April comes around again and with it the first Saturday of the month. Shall we hammer together some links in a Six Degrees of Separation chain?
This month, our host Kate has chosen The Correspondent by Virginia Evans as our starting point. You can find out more about the meme at Books Are My Favourite and Best.
Continue readingAnd so to March’s seventh day and first Saturday. I make that Six Degrees of Separation O’Clock.
This month, our host Kate has chosen Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë as our starting point. You can find out more about the meme at Books Are My Favourite and Best.
Continue readingHello February, already a week old. Shall we dance through a bookish Six Degrees of Separation?
This month, the meme’s host Kate has chosen Flashlight by Susan Choi as our starting point. You can find out more about the meme at Books Are My Favourite and Best.
Continue readingNew Year, new month, and the first Saturday of both. Time for Six Degrees of Separation!
It has been a while. Almost three years, in fact. I’ve seen the posts in my WordPress reader, but today’s the first time I’ve felt the urge to join in. Over at host Kate’s blog, Books Are My Favourite and Best, I see we’re to start with the last book from last month’s chain, or the last book we read. I’m doing neither. I’m going back to the last time I took part, in April 2023. The last book in my chain back then was …
Continue readingIs it really April already? That means it’s time for Six Degrees of Separation, the book meme hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite And Best where we start with the same book and then create a chain of six books that link to the one before. Sometimes kismet allows you to link all of the books to each other, but it’s okay if it doesn’t. You don’t have to have read any of the books in the chain, either. Which is handy for me because I’ve rarely read Kate’s starting book.
This month, Kate’s starting book is Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography Born to Run. I haven’t read it. I’m not that interested in Bruce.
Continue readingIt’s March. I’ve had a couple of months off from Six Degrees of Separation, but this month’s starting book made me think about my mum’s bookshelves in the late 1970s and I decided to join in again.
Six Degrees of Separation is the book meme hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite And Best where we start with the same book and then create a chain of six books that link to the one before. Sometimes kismet allows you to link all of the books to each other, but it’s okay if it doesn’t. You don’t have to have read any of the books in the chain, either. Which is handy for me because I’ve rarely read Kate’s starting book.
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December, and the final installation of Six Degrees of Separation for 2022. Kate has chosen a starting book that I haven’t heard of this month, Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child. Let’s see where my book hopping takes me this month.
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We have an unusual starting book for this month’s Six Degrees of Separation. Our host Kathy at Books Are My Favourite And Best has chosen Jamie Oliver’s The Naked Chef as our chain inspiration. I haven’t read anyone else’s chains yet, as is my wont, but I’m looking forward to seeing how we all fare. If you’re unfamiliar with this literary meme, you can find the rules here.
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October has begun with a Saturday, which means yesterday was Six Degrees of Separation in the literary blogosphere. The Six Degrees meme is hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite And Best and you can find the rules here.
This month, the starting book is Notes On A Scandal. I haven’t read it, but I’ve seen the film.
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It’s the first Saturday of the month and time once again for Six Degrees of Separation, hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. This month we start our chains with the book that was the final link in last month’s chain.
I chose The Book of Ramallah, a collection of short stories by writers from or based in this Palestinian city. This month, I’m going to use it to promote the books of its Manchester-based radical left wing publisher, Comma Press, and the female editors and writers featured in their books.
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