Welcome to our second edition of Six Degrees of Separation. Once again, we are a couple of days late for this monthly feature, but at least we do still jump on the wagon. We apologize profoundly to our host, Books are my Favorite and Best.  On the first Saturday of every month, a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. Books can be linked in obvious ways, for example: same authors, same era or genre, or books with similar themes or settings. Or you might choose to link them in more personal ways: books you read in the same holiday, books given to you by a particular friend or books that remind you of a particular time in your life. The choices are endless here!   This month’s chain is set of with Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld. I’m not one for American Politics, we have our own circus here on the Southern Part of Africa. But I think I might actually enjoy this one. What if Hillary Rodham hadn’t married Bill Clinton?In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she’s attending Yale Law School, […]

Who else sits with a piece of paper or a diary when you do a bit of blog hopping? My Mommy sure does, but she’s not very good with linking all her little notes up. If she had made 6 notes on a paper, she won’t be able to recall in a week’s time how they actually link up. She saw the Six Degrees of Separation monthly meme on someones blog, but you are welcome to bath me if you can help her figure out whose blog that was. Luckily, with about six clicks and a basic idea of where to go, she managed to find Books are my favorite and best, the host of this feature.  I’m sure you are all aware of the phrase “six degrees of separation”? The idea that everyone in the world is separated from everyone else by just six links. I’m not quite sure if it will work for cats, I can’t even remember how many siblings I’ve had before my mommy adopted me. But apparently it’s quite possible for humans and books to create a chain of only six links between everyone and every book.  But I’m getting side tracked here. Back to the meme: […]