It’s the first Saturday of the month which means a new round of #6degrees and this month’s starting book is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
You can find the details and rules of the #6degrees meme at booksaremyfavouriteandbest, but in a nutshell, everyone has the same starting book and from there, you connect to other books. Some of the connections made are so impressive, it’s a lot of fun to follow.
My first link is the easiest and most obvious: Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, which is of course, the second Alice book. While modern editions almost always have the novels combined, they were originally published six years apart. 1871 was the year Through the Looking Glass was published, which is the same year as another second book: Little Men by Louisa May Alcott. It’s technically the second book as Good Wives (next link) was published as a second volume of the first book, Little Women (and there’s another link), and is now, for the most part, considered as the second half of Little Women. 1868 was the year Little Women was published, along with another notable release: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, which is known as the first modern English detective novel. Which brings me to my last link: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the first novel by Agatha Christie, the Queen of English detective novels. Published in 1920, it introduced the detective Hercule Poirot, who we all know, popped up many more times over the course of her writing career.
And that’s my chain: from Alice to Poirot – I didn’t pick that one when I first sat down to put this together!
Until next month’s #6degrees…
Theresa Smith Writes 
Funny how we both commented on not ending up where we started Theresa. I enjoyed your links, partly of course because I’ve read a goodly number of them!
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I just haven’t read the Wilkie Collins or the Agatha Christie.
It’s such a fun little meme, I’m surprised each month where it takes me. 😊
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Didn’t know that about Little Women/ Good Wives etc – probably classics I should revisit. Read them all decades ago but my ‘refreshers’ have all been via movie versions 😐
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Little Women was my book club title in September. I hadn’t read it since I was 11, prior to that. Everything I thought about it as an adult came from the movie – it was enlightening to read at this age, and enjoyable!
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I believe there is a new Little Women movie coming out soon!
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I’ve seen the trailer. I’m really looking forward to it. You can never have too many Little Women adaptations!
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Just managing to keep up with the slew of online reading events ATM here’s my #6Degrees and I swear it’s just by accident that they’re all women authors…
https://anzlitlovers.com/2019/11/02/six-degrees-of-separation-alice-in-wonderland-to/
I love those covers for Little Women, they look as if they are part of a Classics Set?
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Those ones are a Pan set. I like them, they have a quaint appeal. Off to read your links now.
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I didn’t know that The Moonstone was known as the first modern English detective novel. Given my love of English detective novels, I probably ought to read it, to see how it all started!
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Google is wonderful sometimes, particularly at throwing up random things like this. Yes, you should check it out then, given your love for the genre.
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Just downloaded it – it is more than 500 pages!!
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Oh, wow! That seems large for a detective novel…hope it’s good!
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Me too!
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Some great connections there, it’s always interesting to see exactly where these book chains end up. Good luck to you and Stargazer with the Moonstone if you get around to it. I read it years ago when I was going through a crime fiction phase, and although long, is worth sticking with.
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I can’t see myself reading it any time soon but I’m keen to see what Stargazer thinks.
I do enjoy reading these chains, they always throw out surprise links.
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I have quite an old set of Little Women, Good Wives and Little Men that my grandmother gave me, I think from the 1920’s/1930’s.
Thanks for sharing your chain 🙂
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What a special collection. I love books like that!
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I’ve read all of those, although not that recently. Come to Boston and I will take you to visit Orchard House! It is fun to be inside Louisa’s home.
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I would LOVE to do that one day!
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I did like Little Women when I was younger but had to read it again a few years ago for a course on children’s literature and found it so didactic. Though I still love the character of Jo…
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I’ve had that happen with other books I’ve loved as a child or teen. Such a disappointment when it happens. There are a few books from my 20s too that I am reluctant to reread in case they are spoiled.
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