Category: #6Degrees of Separation

#6Degrees of Separation #2 – March 2024

I’ve seen this meme on several book blogs I follow, so I thought I would join in to keep up my blogging this year.

This is a monthly link-up hosted by KateW at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the other books on the list, only to the one next to it in the chain. The rules are:

  • Link the books together in any way you like.
  • Provide a link in your post to the meme at Books Are My Favourite and Best.
  • Share these rules in your post.
  • Paste the link to your post in the comments on Kate’s post and/or the Linky Tool on that post.
  • Invite your blog readers to join in and paste their links in the comments and/or the Linky Tool.
  • Share your post on Twitter using the #6Degrees hashtag.
  • Be nice! Visit and comment on other posts and/or retweet other #6Degrees posts.

This month’s task was to start with the book Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. I haven’t read this and it’s not on my TBR list so I’ve decided to link the first book with the word LAKE in the title. I was thinking of going with a name in the title, but Lake won the toss.

The Cottage at Whisper Lake by Phillipa Nefri Clark, I loved this book, part mystery, part romance. It was such a great read.

I am going with a lake being a body of water and so is a river, my next book is The Vet from Snow River by Stella Quinn. This is one of my #backlistreads for this year, a very overdue read which has been waiting 3 years for me to read it.

Continuing with the body of water theme, the next book I am linking is Galaxies and Oceans by N.R Walker, this is set on Kangaroo Island off the coast of South Australia, and this was an emotional read that I really enjoyed.

Continuing with the body of water theme I am choosing Jewel Sea by Kim Kelly, I’m only partway through this book, but I know it’s going to be a fabulous read, it’s also set in my home state of Western Australia. It is about a pearl that comes with a curse and a warning.

I’m going in a completely different direction to the one I had planned, but my next book is P is for Pearl by Eliza Henry-Jones, set in Tasmania, it is an absolutely beautiful and moving story (see my review), one I would like to revisit.

My next book is one I’ve had on my Kindle for a while and we jump across an ocean to visit New Zealand, it might be time to read it. Charlie and Pearl by Tammy Robinson. Apparently, this one might make me cry so I’ll make sure I’m not in public when I’m reading it.

So, there is my second #6Degrees of Separation post which I am quite happy with and it’s brought to my attention a couple of books that I really must read this year. Have you read any of these?

#6Degrees of Separation #1 – February 2024

I’ve seen this meme on several book blogs I follow, so to keep up my blogging this year, I thought I would join in.

This is a monthly link-up hosted by KateW at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the other books on the list, only to the one next to it in the chain. The rules are:

  • Link the books together in any way you like.
  • Provide a link in your post to the meme at Books Are My Favourite and Best.
  • Share these rules in your post.
  • Paste the link to your post in the comments on Kate’s post and/or the Linky Tool on that post.
  • Invite your blog readers to join in and paste their links in the comments and/or the Linky Tool.
  • Share your post on Twitter using the #6Degrees hashtag.
  • Be nice! Visit and comment on other posts and/or retweet other #6Degrees posts.

This month’s task was to start with the book you finished in January (or the last book you read) I’m starting on a book I’m currently reading. This is my first go at this and I found it a bit of a challenge, I probably could have come up with much easier ways of linking them, but why do it easy lol, hopefully, I got it right.

My first book and the book I’m currently reading is Snowy Mountains Dawn by Alissa Callen 

I linked it to The Bookstore at Rivers End by Phillipa Nefri Clark which I have on KU because they both have a place name in the title. This book features a found diary and the uncovering of a mystery.

Now, I know I have read many books which use the finding of an old diary as part of the plot, but do you think I could think of any offhand, letters yes, but diaries no. I was lucky my mum had just finished reading a Nora Roberts series which involves ghosts and the hunt for a diary, phew, so I’m linking this to Blue Dahlia by Nora Roberts.

This leads nicely to a book I just finished Dead Serious Case 4 Professor Prometheus Plume by Vawn Cassidy. This involved many ghosts in an old hotel the couple went to spend a romantic long weekend away.

I’m linking this to a book I bought last week, The Anywhere Hotel by Gisele Stein about a mysterious hotel where there is a portal that allows you to travel anywhere in the world, for a price.

This book had a few themes I thought of using but ultimately chose to link it via Travelling the World to The Utterly Sublime Adventures of Ava Roberts by Lisa Frederickson which I have on KU also. In this book, Ava is running away from a cheating fiance and decides to go on a life-changing 80-day odyssey around the world.

I’m linking this to Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Palin, a real-life adventure in which he decides to follow in the footsteps of Jules Verne’s character Phileas Fogg using only the forms of transport which would have been available to him 115 years earlier, I’ve reserved this from Borrowbox.

And that is my first #6Degrees challenge how did I go? Have you read any of these books?