Six Degrees of Separation: The Good Earth to Burial Rites

 

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. 

 

This month is a little different from normal as we need to start with the book we finished with last month, which for me was The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck.

I had quite a few ideas of places to start this month, but the one I chose to go with was The Lost Pearl by Emily Madden, because of the name Pearl.

The Lost Pearl is partially set in Hawaii, so I have chosen to use Hawaii by James Michener, a book I read many, many years ago as my next choice.

For my next link I chose another James Michener book which is Texas.

When I think of colonial Texas, I think of Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Using a type of bird as my prompt I am choosing The Peacock Summer by Hannah Richell

And then finally, a book by another Hannah which is Burial Rites by Hannah Kent.

Next month's starting point is Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller. Where will your Six Degrees of Separation take you?

Six Degrees of Separation: From The Book of Form and Emptiness to The Good Earth

 

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. 

 

This month's starting book is The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki.

I chose to use the phrase "The book of" as my first step and which led me to The Book of Lost Threads by Tess Evans

The word threads made me think of sewing and tapestry, which lead me to the book 

Needle in the Blood by Sarah Bowers which is partially features a story of one of the women who worked on the Bayeux Tapestry.

My next choice is The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani, a book I read and loved a number of years ago now.

My next two choices are because of the name Anita. First, there is 

Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by indigneous Australian author Anita Heiss. My review is here.

My next book by an Anita is Weight of Water by Anita Shreve, which I read way back in 2008 because it was chosen as one of the Oprah Book Club books.

My final choice this month is another Oprah book club choice, The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. This is one that I read along with along with other readers on the forums. I met so many other passionate readers on those forums!

The starting point for next month we need to start with the book we finished this month, so I will be starting with The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck.