Today, we are joining one of the most fun book memes online—6 Degrees of Separation. In this meme, we start with a book and find common threads with another book, and then another, and so on. This meme is hosted by Books Are My Favourite and Best.
Because we have a Read the World Challenge here, we’re not only travelling from book to book, but from country to country, starting in Ireland and finishing in Canada.
The chosen book is Long Island, by Irish author Colm Tóibín. The book is a continuation of the story of Eilis Lacey, from Brooklin. The book is set 20 years later than the first one, and the protagonist is living in Long Island, in New York, just like…
the heroin of The Collected Regrets of Clover, by Australian author Mikki Brammer. In this second book in the link, Clover is a death doula who knows everything about the dying, but very little about the living. She lived with her grandfather most of her life and had a hard time dealing with his death, just like…
Natalia, the protagonist of The Tiger’s Wife, by Serbian author Téa Obreht. The death of Natalia’s grandfather takes her on a journey across an unspecified Baltic country. The book intercalates chapters of her travels and the stories her grandfather used to tell. Many of them are deeply embedded in magical realism, just like…
much of the book Island Beneath the Sea, by Chilean author Isabel Allende (both books are 5 stars, btw). Here, the historical background is the Haitian Revolution and the independence movement. As is expected, many of the protagonists were born in Haiti, just like…
Victoire, one of the four protagonists of Babel, by Chinese author R. F. Kuang (and my third 5-star book this year). In Babel, a prestigious translation school in Oxford holds immense power by using enchanted bars to transform materials all over the world. The story is set in the 1830s, just like…
part of the story told in Alias Grace, by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. In this book, we learn about Grace Marks, a real-life character who was accused of plotting to kill her masters. Interestingly enough, Grace is an Irish immigrant, just like…
the protagonist on Long Island. And now we’re back in Ireland all over again.
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