Six Degrees of Separation – from The Tipping Point to Books That Cook

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

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Six Degrees of Separation – from The Poisonwood Bible to The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

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 Memoirs of a Geisha to Howard’s End

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 Arthur Golden’s international bestseller, Memoirs of a Geisha. I took this book on holiday with me to Far North Queensland and have fond memories of sitting on the beach and by the pool, absorbed in Golden’s sumptuous story.

Six Degrees of Separation – from The Beauty Myth to The Accidental Billionaires

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 a book that generated a lot of debate when it was published in 1990 – The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf. My friends were discussing it over pots of beer at The Clyde in Carlton, while we should have been at lectures…

Six Degrees of Separation – from Lincoln in the Bardo to Dangerous Liaisons

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This month we begin with the book that topped the critics list in 2017 – Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. I haven’t read it (yet) but I know that a Greek chorus is an important part of the narrative.

Six Degrees of Separation – from No.1 Ladies Detective Agency to The Heart’s Invisible Furies

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This month we begin with the international bestseller,  No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith.

Six Degrees of Separation – from It to L.A. Candy

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Six Degrees of Separation – from Less Than Zero to The Great Gatsby

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This month we begin with controversial bestseller by a member of the eighties ‘literary Brat Pack’ – Bret Easton Ellis’s Less Than Zero.

Six Degrees of Separation – from Like Water for Chocolate to Fear of Flying

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This month we begin with Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate. Every so often, I see a movie before I read the book and this was one such book (I loved both).

Six Degrees of Separation – from Wild Swans to A Room With a View

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This month the chain begins with Wild Swans by Jung Chang.  I go through reading binges and Wild Swans was part of an extended ‘China’ phase.