Six Degrees of Separation – from How To Be Both to The Portable Veblen

It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up!

Six Degrees of Separation – from The Arsonist to Tin Man

It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up!

This month we begin with The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper. It’s a fascinating account of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. One of the themes Hooper explores is remorse.

Six Degrees of Separation – from Fight Club to Love, Nina

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This month we begin with Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. I haven’t read the book but I watched the movie after I finished The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell. The ending of Rindell’s book left me completely confused and a friend, who’d also read Typist, simply said “Fight Club.”

Six Degrees of Separation – from The French Lieutenant’s Woman to White Houses

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This month we begin with The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles. I haven’t read this book but I remember my mum reading it (in the seventies) and being engrossed.

Six Degrees of Separation – from A Christmas Carol to Tiny Beautiful Things

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This month we begin with A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

Six Degrees of Separation – from Vanity Fair to You Think It, I’ll Say It

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This month we begin with William Makepeace Thackeray’s classic, Vanity Fair.

Six Degrees of Separation – from The Outsiders to The Other Typist

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This month we begin with the classic teen novel, The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton.

Six Degrees of Separation – from Where Am I Now to Growing Up Asian in Australia

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This month we begin with Mara Wilson’s memoir, Where Am I Now? There were so many directions I could have gone with this but I decided to link to Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me) on the basis that both writers are currently appearing at the Melbourne Writers Festival.

Bookish (and not so bookish) Thoughts

01. I took my daughter to the Katy Perry Witness concert last week. As always, Perry was FUN, energetic, and wearing amazing costumes. Highlights: the staging for Swish Swish and the eighties South Beach vibe for her Teenage Dream set (bad pics but you get the idea).

Six Degrees of Separation – from Atonement to Bitter Orange

It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up!