It's a new year and I've committed, for the moment at least, to continuing with the Six Degrees meme which is currently hosted by Kate (booksaremyfavouriteandbest). For details about the meme, please click the link on Kate's blog-name. Meanwhile, on with the challenge. This month we start with a book that I have, in fact, read, … Continue reading Six degrees of separation, FROM The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency TO …

And so we come to December and the last Six Degrees of Separation for the year. For newbies to blogging - because the rest of you surely know by now - this is a meme currently hosted by Kate (booksaremyfavouriteandbest). For information about how the meme works, please click the link on her blog-name. It's fascinating to … Continue reading Six degrees of separation, FROM It TO …

Last month I changed my Six Degrees titling practice to not including the end book. Most commenters preferred that approach, so I'm sticking with it for the moment, with apologies to those who demurred! And now, before I get stuck into this month's choices, the formalities. Six Degrees of Separation is a meme currently run by Kate … Continue reading Six degrees of separation, FROM Less than zero TO …

I've decided to change my blog titling practice for my Six Degrees meme, from including the end book to not! I've decided it's more fun to read the post following the connections until the end, rather than knowing the end book at the beginning? Let me know what you think. But now, the formalities. Six Degrees of … Continue reading Six degrees of separation, FROM Like water for chocolate TO …

As you are sure to know by now, I am becoming rather addicted to the Six Degrees of Separation meme currently run by Kate (booksaremyfavouriteandbest). Please click on the link if you want to find out more about this meme, because I'm moving on with my selections! Our starting book this month is Jung Chang's three … Continue reading Six degrees of separation, FROM Wild swans TO Family skeleton

Woo hoo, it's Six Degrees of Separation day again, and for this month our host Kate (booksaremyfavouriteandbest) has selected a special book, Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock, which is 50 years old this year. This meme, as you probably know by now, requires we players to create a chain of six more books, linking one from … Continue reading Six degrees of separation, FROM Picnic at Hanging Rock TO A few days in the country

Here we are again at the first Saturday of the month - and you know what that means don't you! Yep, the Six Degrees of Separation meme. As most of you know, it's currently hosted by Kate (booksaremyfavouriteandbest). This means she has the power - though she will take requests - to nominate the book from which we create a chain of … Continue reading Six degrees of separation, FROM Shopgirl TO The natural order of things