It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Continue reading
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Six Degrees of Separation – from Flowers in the Attic to The Rules of Civility
It’s time for #6Degrees – join in! Link up!
We begin this month’s chain with the controversial eighties best-seller by V. C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic. It’s truly a diabolical book and in 1987, I couldn’t put it down. Continue reading
Top Ten Tuesday – Books for Gatsby fans
Everywhere I turn I’m seeing Gatsby – fringes on dresses, Bakelite accessories and sublime Art Deco curves in furniture design. Get a little Jazz Age into your reading list as well.
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is a topic rewind. I’m going all the way back to January 2012 when The Broke and the Bookish looked at their Top 10 Historical Fiction picks… And then I’m rewinding a little further to the glorious years between 1920 and 1940 when the order of the day was bobbed hair, cloche hats and gin cocktails. Of course we must start at the very top with Gatsby.
1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Basically I’m beside myself with excitement waiting for this:
But what else is on the ‘Gatsby’ reading list? Continue reading