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 Stefan Zweig’s The Post-Office Girl. I picked it for self-indulgent reasons – Zweig was Austrian and I’ve just returned from Austria.
The week I came back, I went to the German Film Festival. The first film I saw was, unbeknownst to me initially, based on a memoir by an Austrian author – Vier Minus Drei by Barbara Pachl-Eberhart. Unfortunately the book hasn’t been translated into English (hopefully it will be now that the film is out).
The second film I saw at the GFF was also based on a book, and one that I have in my reading stack (again, it’s only in German) – 22 Bahnen by Caroline Wahl.
Pools are a central motif in the story, as they are in another book that has caught my eye – The Body Builders by Albertine Clarke.
Unusual experiences had at pools is also the focus of Katherine Brabon’s novel, Body Friend. It’s a book that I’ve thought about more frequently than I expected, and the same goes for her following novel, Cure.
Cure focuses on bloggers and the wellness industry – there are lots of books I could link to but the one that comes immediately to mind (because the story is astounding) is The Woman Who Fooled the World by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, which tracks the rise and fall of wellness blogger/ fraudster, Belle Gibson.
From Austria to pools – where will other chains go? Link up below or post your link in the comments section.
Next month (July 4, 2026), we’ll start with a book that everyone’s talking about – Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke.
