Sunday, May 05, 2024

Six Degrees of Separation: The Anniversary to Equal 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 the starting point is The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop, which was longlisted for the Stella Prize this year.





My starting point is last year's winner of the same prize, Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

Another book with the word cinnamon in the title is Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown

A book that I read recently about the famous Gunpowder Plot is The Secrets of Crestwell Hall by Alexandra Walsh





I love a good book which features the house as almost a character. Another book where that happened for me was Peacock Summer by Hannah Richell

A book by another Hannah that is the very opposite of summer is Burial Rites by Hannah Kent..

And that title gives me the opportunity to finish with a Terry Pratchett book, Equal Rites.

Next month our starting point is Butter by Asako Yuzuki. I am very excited by this choice. I had requested it from the library but wasn't able to go pick it up! I am not sure that I will get to read it before June but it will be a good reminder to me to request it again.

Will you be joining us?




15 comments:

  1. Interesting connections as always.

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    1. Thanks Mark! It's always fun to do this exercise!

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  2. That is so cool how you can link the titles. I have never tried to do that.

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    1. There are so many directions you can go in Tina! Thanks for stopping by

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  3. Gunpowder! Didn't see that coming! Good work!

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  4. I want to read Butter too, but my library doesn't have it, so I may have to purchase it. (Quite chunky, though, so might not have time to read before next month)

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    1. I have just seen it on sale on Kindle!

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  5. I just finished my 6-Degrees list, too. I don't usually complete one of the lists unless I've read the starter book. Since I haven't read The Anniversary I hesitant to start then decided to take a different path this month. https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2024/05/six-degrees-anniversary-to.html

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    1. Sorry, I should have hyperlinked it, Second try: Six Degrees

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    2. I would never do it if I only did when I have read the starting book - lol

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  6. I love the twists and turns of your Six Degrees of Separation this month. Burial Rites was a great read, I think. I must admit that I really know little about the Gunpowder Plot.

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