Welcome to this month's edition of Six Degrees of Separation, which is a monthly meme hosted by Kate from Books Are My Favourite and Best. The idea is to start with a specific book and make a series of links from one book to the next using whatever link you can find and see where you end up after six links. I am also linking this post up with The Sunday Salon, hosted by Deb at Readerbuzz and A Good Book and a Cup of Tea hosted at Boondock Ramblings.
This month the starting point is Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghey, which is a book I intend to read at some point...maybe!
For my first link I am choosing Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang. I read this book many, many years ago, back in the 1990s at some point.
Another book I remember loving back then was The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Our current read on a theme book club theme is Mothers and Daughters, and would both of those books would have been good for that theme. I am, however, reading another book by Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter. This was one of the books that I read on the plane on the way home yesterday.
From here, there are a gazillion books that are have the title of The something's daughter and I was tempted to go down that route. Instead though I am choosing The Astral Library by Kate Quinn because it was a book that I read while we were in Turkiye.
A Turkish author I love is Elif Shafak. In anticipation of our trip, I had borrowed her book The Forty Rules of Love from the library but had to return it unread as I ran out of time. I will be reborrowing it soon though.
Another book that I was really looking for to reading but had to return unread was The Enlightenment of Bees by Rachel Linden. I will be reborrowing this one too!
Next month's starting point is a book by Austrian author Stefan Zweig – The Post-Office Girl.
Will you be joining us?
Great chain. I loved Wild Swans!
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DeleteLovely chain. I've heard of all of these books, but haven't read any of them. Not all of them are for me, though!
ReplyDeleteThanks Davida!
DeleteThere are so many good books in this chain including The Astral Library and Wild Swans and Joy Luck Club. I like the sound of The Enlightenment of Bees by Rachel Linden.
ReplyDeleteI have only read on Rachel Linden book but I loved it!
DeleteWell, your first three choices are an interesting Blast from the Past - always good to look back. And like you, I've not read that particular Elif Shafak. It must be done however! I've only read one Kate Quinn, but I enjoyed it. So that only leaves your last book as an unknown quantity for me. A great chain!
ReplyDeleteThe Elif Shafak definitely must be done!
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