It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up.
This month we begin with The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey. It’s been sitting in my TBR stack for years. All I know about it is that it is a fairy tale.
Fairy tales link me to Chloe Hooper’s brilliant memoir, Bedtime Story.
Hooper refers to dozens of books in Bedtime Story, from fairy tales and poetry to history texts. She makes mention of Songlines by Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly (‘Criss-crossing all of Australia are sacred stories….’), which coincidentally I have just started reading in attempt to complete my Nonfiction Reader challenge.
The other book I have pulled off the shelf for the Nonfiction Reader challenge is Yarra by Kristin Otto. I’ve read bits and pieces of this book as I’ve completed parts of my Yarra walking project, but I am looking forward to reading about the history of the river from start to finish.
The most recent book I read for the Nonfiction Reader Challenge, was Why We Can’t Sleep by Ada Calhoun. The book was aimed at Gen X women.
Calhoun, knowing exactly what her audience would be familiar with, makes mention of Little House of Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I loved these books as a child, and when Wilder’s handwritten autobiography, Pioneer Girl, was found and published ten years ago, I pounced on a copy.
I started with a snow child and ended with a prairie girl – seems fitting! Where will other chains go? Link up below or post your link in the comments section.
Next month (January 7, 2023), we’ll start with Beach Read by Emily Henry.
Finally, a book on the 6-Degrees post that I’ve read. Hmm. Now I have to think of what comes next…
Here is my post. I found myself focusing almost exclusively on fairy tales or stories told over a long period of time.
https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2022/12/6-degrees-snow-child-to.html
Good work!
Love your snow child to prairie girl circle, Kate, well done. I also love how the books you noted about the Nonfiction November traps are very different to the ones I noticed.
Anyhow, here is my chain a bit later this week because what a busy month: https://whisperinggums.com/2022/12/03/six-degrees-of-separation-from-the-snow-child-to/
I mightn’t have read your starting book, but I have read ‘Bedtime Stories’, ‘Yarra’ and ‘Little House on the Prairie’ (about fifty years ago!) Melburnians would enjoy ‘Yarra’, both walking it and reading about it. My chain is at:
http://residentjudge.com/2022/12/03/six-degrees-of-separation-from-the-snow-child-to/
A nice mix of fairy tales and nonfiction.
Here’s my chain – https://booksplease.org/2022/12/03/six-degrees-of-separation-from-the-snow-child-to-crime-at-lark-cottage/
Ah, Kate, do get Snow Child down from your shelves . I – unexpectedly – loved it, so thanks for making me hunt it down. And Little House on the Prairie was in my last month’s chain, and you definitely made a case fo it here. This is mine: https://margaret21.com/2022/12/03/six-degrees-of-separation-from-the-snow-child-to-a-mistletoe-murder/
I’m interested in finding out the context in which Calhoun links insomnia with Little House of Prairie? Looks like I should pick up her book next!
Neat chain, as ever, particularly that first link.
I think you recommended a different book by Chloe Hooper once which I read but I don’t know this one. Of course, I was brought up on Laura Ingalls Wilder and have been meaning to go visit some of the sites in the books. I own Pioneer Girl but have not read it yet – a former coworker saw it at a trade show and kindly picked it up and mailed it to me. Isn’t it funny how one’s own family might not think of something yet a man I only saw once or twice a year at annual meetings remembered me years later?
Here is my chain:
http://perfectretort.blogspot.com/2022/12/six-degrees-of-separation-from-snow.html
I guess I can’t quit Twitter because otherwise WordPress fights me from commenting!
Constance
Bedtime Story sounds great! Here’s my chain:
https://shereadsnovels.com/2022/12/03/six-degrees-of-separation-from-the-snow-child-to-murder-under-the-christmas-tree/
Neat! All these nonfiction books sound really good.
I ended with a professor!
https://wordsandpeace.com/2022/12/03/six-degrees-of-separation-from-a-child-to-a-professor/
I actually had read this one recently, so this was a great month to do the six degrees. Not so sure about next month, though, but we’ll see. LOL
As always, thanks for doing this.
My Six Degrees of Separation took me from The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey to Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
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I hadn’t picked up on there being a rediscovered autobiography by Laura Ingots Wilder. Little House on the Prairie was a favourite of mine as a child, along with Anne of Green Gables. I’ll have to get a copy of Prairie Girl.
My chain has been hard to define, but I’m going with travelling beyond the bounds of our present reality as a summary!
https://thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2022/12/03/six-degrees-of-separation-from-the-snow-child-to-4-3-2-1/
Great, an opening book I’ve finally read! The Yarra book looks interesting, makes me think fondly of my Christmas trips to Melbourne. I kept to the wintry theme, via hellscapes and other diversions https://www.bookshelfdiscovery.com/blog/six-degrees-of-separation-december-2022
This is the first time the starting book is one that I’ve read and it’s the first time my connections are all from my TBR – weird backwards thing there. I’ve also read Beach Read for next month and connections were already clicking in my head. I like that you went down the nonfiction path including books you’ve just read – nice chain!
Terrie @ Bookshelf Journeys
https://www.bookshelfjourneys.com/post/6-degrees-of-separation-4
This is the first time I hear about Prairie Girl – like you, I loved the fiction series as a child, so may have to track this one down. A lovely chain, as usual, demonstrating that you don’t need to have read the first book! This month I’ve managed to get myself organised and am publishing the post today, Sunday, instead of several days late!
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I discovered the Little House books only as an adult but enjoyed them very much; Bedtime Story looks very good.
Here’s my chain: https://potpourri2015.wordpress.com/2022/12/04/six-degrees-of-separation-from-the-snow-child-to-december-2022/
A very interesting chain! You started with a Fairytale, I ended with one!
I’m busy with a book set in the wild wild west and been thinking about Little House of the Prairie so much.
Blessings for the Festive Season!
Elza Reads
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Really enjoyed taking part of this, and with one of my favourite books! https://spinesinaline.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/six-degrees-of-separation-december-2022/
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