It’s six degrees of separation for books. Created by Emma Chapman and Annabel Smith. Check out the rules if you want to play along.
We begin with Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healy. It’s a mystery involving an elderly woman. A similar theme runs through The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane.
It has a tiger on the cover which makes me think of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua. Have you read it? Chua is a maniac, particularly about her daughters’ music.
Kids and music leads me to Welcome to Your New Life by Anna Goldsworthy – Goldsworthy was/is a concert pianist. And then she had a baby.
A baby can be challenging, as Elisa Albert explores in her controversial new release, After Birth.
Two very different stories but the covers of After Birth and Rainey Royal by Dylan Landis are one of the same in my mind. Shut up. I know they look completely different now that they’re next to each other but it’s that tapestry/ damask/ fabric thing.
Stories set in the seventies (such as Rainey Royal) link me to the ultimate – the Tales of the City series by Armistead Maupin.
Mysteries, tigers, stage mums, book covers and the seventies – all in six moves.
Brilliant! Plus you’ve ended with one of my favourite books (series) of all time!
I read the series a long time ago and haven’t yet read the final installment – feel like I need to read them all again to do it justice… Have you read the last book?
Not yet, I feel like I don’t want it to end 🙂
Loving your links although I’ve only read the starting point to this month’s six degrees.
I’ve done a few 6 Degrees without having read the book! *cue tenuous links to title/ author/ cover*
Wow, those are all some pretty covers! No matter how I try to not judge a book by just the front of it, I can’t help it… they’re so beautiful!
Oh I always judge books by their covers 😉
I totally get the similarities of those covers. The Night Guests has an amazing cover. I didn;t get in to Tales of the City but I did love Maupin’s book The Night Listener – which would link nicely to The Night Guest!
Haven’t read The Night Listener. Admittedly, I read the Tales of the City series decades a go (!) and haven’t yet read the final installment that was was released last year.
Nicely done! I haven’t read any of these books and they all sound interesting!