Six Degrees of Separation: Flashlight to The Stowaway

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 Flashlight by Helen Choi. I started to read this before Christmas and was on the verge of giving it up when I saw that it had been announced as the starting point for this month's Six Degrees of Separation. I finally finished it earlier this month. You can read my thoughts here.

Flashlight partially talks about the treatment of Korean people living in Japan up to the end of WWII. White Mulberry by Rosa Kwon Easton also tells what it was like to be Korean and living in Japan. (my review)

My next couple of choices are all about fruit and flower. Using the idea that mulberry is a fruit, as is cherry, I have chosen my next book as The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Japanese author Takuya Asakura. I haven't read this yet but I have had it on my TBR for a few months now.

Sticking with cherry blossoms, my next selection is Barbed Wire and Cherry Blossoms by Anita Heiss. 

This time my blossoms are apples as I have chosen Last of the Apple Blossom by Mary-Lou Stephens, a book set in Tasmania. 

I have two reasons for my next selection. The first is using the hyphenated name of Mary-something. The last author was Mary-Lou. Mary-Anne O'Connor is the author of In a Great Southern Land. My second reason for choosing this book? Well, when you think about the Great Southern Land that is Australia you can't get much further south than Tasmania.

Which brings me to my final choice which is The Stowaway which is once again by Mary-Anne O'Connor. That should be enough of a connection, but actually there is a clue as to why I wanted to end up on this book. The day I went to buy my copy of Flashlight, I needed to buy a second book by the publisher so I could get the little Penguin you can see in the picture. This book was the other book I bought that day!

Next month, the starting point is Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Will you be joining us?

This week....

I'm reading ....

Erm...not a lot! I mean I have to finish one of the two books that I am reading for bookclub by Saturday. I am still reading Lincoln Highway but I also started Gallipoli Street by Mary-Anne O'Connor on my kindle as I caught the train to the city on Friday because I didn't want to be carryng such a big book around. 

I'm watching....

Who has time to watch TV??

Life

Friday I was a lady who lunches at one of the top restaurants in Melbourne called Vue de Monde (and you might be able to see why). I was then also a lady who dines, with a few wines in between. It was an unusual event for me but so much fun.  Only downside....one of the guests who was part of the small client group we were with has now tested positive to Covid. 

I had to work most of Sunday, but we also had tickets to see Robbie Williams perform. He is filming a biopic here in Melbourne, so they put on two concerts so they could film concert scenes for the movie. He is such a great showman and even though it wasn't a normal concert it was so much fun. I am, however, a little weary tonight.

Here's just a taste, although to be fair this is more the crowd than Robbie!

Posts from the last week

Top Ten Tuesday: Chocolate Anyone?

Vintage Weekend Cooking: Chocolate Brownies

Weekend Cooking: Yet more chocolate

Historical Fiction Reading Challenge: May link up

I've linked this post to It's Monday, what are you reading? as hosted by Book Date