This was suggested by Mary.
Connect any six books in your library to each other by any way you want. One book will remind you of another because the author’s name is similar, a fictional character shows up in someone else’s book, another author is talked about by characters in a book, maybe the same friend recommended both books, or whatever. Books from a series count as one entry in your list.
OK I went into the office, faced the two big shelves, closed my eyes and reached out for a book. (1) Epitaph for an Angel by Lauren Maddison is a Connor Hawthorne Mystery. This reminds me of (2) Sleeping Bones, a Kate Delafield Mystery by Katherine Forrest because they’re both lesbian detective novels. Sleeping Bones reminds me of (3) Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold which is not in any way shape or form a lesbian detective novel but it has bones in the title. Lovely Bones reminds me of cornfields which leads me to (4) Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres because the kids in the book lived out in the country, and there was a lot of child abuse in that book. Jesus Town leads me to (5) Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver because it’s the first “Christian Missionary” type book that pops into my head. Though the two are pretty different, they’re connected in my mind. From PWB I’m reminded of Mental Multivitamin and my surprise at seeing her post that said she had not read it and anytime I think of MMV I think of (6) Night by Elie Wiesel because her blog is where I heard of Oprah’s choice for the HS Essay Contest.
There you go – my six – odd but sort of fun.
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This is an interesting take on the whole meme thing. It at least has some essence to it. I’ll try it out soon (curious to see what I’ll come up with). The whole idea, I suppose, is that you choose the first book randomly? That’s good, since I can’t find anything in there these days anyway.
Thanks for blogging!