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.
The starting point for this month is Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. I really struggled to get started last month. This month I had the opposite problem. I had several ideas of where to start.
I did think about going using novels with a name for a title as one of my options, but I kept it a bit simpler in the end.
I haven't read Ethan Frome although when I was looking on Goodreads I was surprised to see that it is a very short book, so maybe I should try reading it. The only book I have read by Edith Wharton is Age of Innocence, which is a book I read many years ago as part of the Barnes and Noble University.
When I was thinking about Age of Innocence I was thinking of the Gilded Age/era which lead me to thinking about The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati, which coincidentally is also set in New York.
My next choice, City of Dreams by Beverly Swerling is also set in New York, or rather in Nieuw Amsterdam back when the city was under Dutch control.
Taking inspirations from the word dream, my next choice is Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams by Alexander McCall Smith. This book was part of the Canongate myths series
Also part of the same series is Lion's Honey by David Grossman, which retells the story of Samson from the Old Testament.
My final choice is another Old Testament story, The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. If I had to pick one book as the book that got me over the line from thinking about writing reviews for a blog to actually starting a blog, this is the book.
Next month the starting point is Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. This is an author that I have been meaning to read for the longest time. That might even be my starting point but there's only a couple of thousand books that are on that list so it doesn't really narrow it down.
