Hello There Bookworms!
I know you’ve been bereft this past month, desperately wanting to know when 6 Degrees of Separation was going to be back. Today is the day! The lovely and fabulous Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman chose Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
as this month’s jumping off point. Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I’ve not yet read We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, but I’m playing ANYWAY because I want to and I have a really good first link in the chain, okay?
1. We Are Not Ourselves
by Matthew Thomas (review)- I chose to start here because the titles totally had me mixing up these two books. Apparently when titles start and end with the same words, I get confused.
2. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith (review) – I chose this as the second step because Eileen Tumulty’s childhood reminded me of so much of Francie Nolan’s. Oh, my heart!
3. Killing Williamsburg
by Bradley Spinelli (review)- Because Brooklyn! Of course, Killing Williamsburg had a suicide plague, so the connection isn’t exact or anything, but that’s not the point of this game, so I’m good.
4. I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson (review)- Killing Williamsburg begins to feel a bit like a zombie novel once the plague really gets going, and though the creatures in I Am Legend are technically vampires and not zombies, it’s creeptastic.
5. The Road
by Cormac McCarthy (review)- I’m connecting this to I Am Legend because both books are post-apocalyptic and BLEAK.
6. The MaddAddam Trilogy
by Margaret Atwood (review)- Alright, there’s some minor cheating here because I chose to link to a trilogy instead of a standalone book, but I’m a rebel that way. This is one of the most awesome post-apocalyptic offerings ever. Plus, MARGARET ATWOOD. It works.
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Melinda @ The Book Musings
We Are Not Ourselves is a bit of a lengthy novel, but I loved it!
Sarah @ Sarah's Book Shelves
So much fun! Station Eleven could have probably been thrown in there under the post-apocalyptic theme. I just finished it, so it’s on my mind.
Annabel Smith
Yes, yes, I HAVE been bereft – how did you guess? But it was worth the wait because your chain got so apocalyptic. Why odes a book about a suicide plague sound so attractive to me? What does that say about me?
Leah @ Books Speak Volumes
The beginning of We Are Not Ourselves reminded me of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn too!
AMB
Well done! I get really confused by books with similar titles too.