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 The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose.
I am choosing to start by focusing on the word museum. Whenever I visit Perth, I love to visit the port city of Fremantle. Even thought I have been many times I love to visit the Shipwreck Museum and visit the wreck of the Batavia. This was a Dutch ship which sank off the cost of Western Australia. A book which tells the story of the Batavia is The Night Ship by Jess Kidd.
When we visited the Netherlands just under 2 years ago, we stayed with my brother and sister in law. It just so happens that they live in the town where there is a replica of the Batavia. So my next link is the most recent book I have read about Dutch history, Midnight Blue by Simone van der Vlugt
A famous name that made a cameo appearance in Midnight Blue was the artist Vermeer. He was also a character in Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
My next choice is using he word pearl as the key, so I am choosing the fourth book is the Seven Sisters series, The Pearl Sister by Lucinda Riley.
And then using the word sister as the link I am choosing a book I read not too long ago, The Shakespeare Sisters by Juliet Greenwood
My final choice is Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell which is all about Shakespeare and his family. As an aside...we are going to go to the Globe when we are in London soon. Looking forward to it.
When we visited the Netherlands just under 2 years ago, we stayed with my brother and sister in law. It just so happens that they live in the town where there is a replica of the Batavia. So my next link is the most recent book I have read about Dutch history, Midnight Blue by Simone van der Vlugt
A famous name that made a cameo appearance in Midnight Blue was the artist Vermeer. He was also a character in Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
My next choice is using he word pearl as the key, so I am choosing the fourth book is the Seven Sisters series, The Pearl Sister by Lucinda Riley.
And then using the word sister as the link I am choosing a book I read not too long ago, The Shakespeare Sisters by Juliet Greenwood
My final choice is Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell which is all about Shakespeare and his family. As an aside...we are going to go to the Globe when we are in London soon. Looking forward to it.
Next month the starting point is After Story by Larissa Behrendt.
Where has your chain taken you this month?
Lovely. Any chain with Hamnet is a winner in my book! Do enjoy your visit to the Globe. I love it there. But spend the extra to get a cushion because the seats are VERY hard!
ReplyDeleteThat's a nice chain. I love how far the Batavia got you. I walked past the Globe in London, but now I think a show would have been a great experience!
ReplyDeleteThere are several great sounding reads in your chain! I added Midnight Blue to my tbr :)
ReplyDeleteI'm happy to have read three of your six books this time. I'd love to read the other three; all of them sound really good. I'd like to read The Girl with the Pearl Earring ago---such a powerful story.
ReplyDeleteI saw King Lear at the Globe on my last visit. Don't economize and get standing room as we did! It was a great production but we were very tired at the end!
ReplyDeleteI must have read a really bad Lucinda Riley because I swore I would never read another book of hers but you are not the first person who enjoyed her Seven Sisters series. I did like Girl with a Pearl Earring and other books by Chevalier.