It’s the first Saturday of the month so that means it’s #6degrees of separation time! This month’s starting book is Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar.
You can find the details and rules of the #6degrees meme at booksaremyfavouriteandbest, but in a nutshell, on the first Saturday of every month, everyone has the same starting book and from there, you connect in a variety of ways to other books. Some of the connections made are so impressive, it’s a lot of fun to follow.
I thought I was going to be all over this month’s six degrees, making a chain of eco-lit, but my brain just wouldn’t budge past the first link so I’ve switched to a different theme. In honour of International Women’s Day tomorrow, I’m going with a chain made up of books featuring fearless women, written by women, since Wolfe Island is an exemplar of both of these criteria.
Since I’m using an overall theme this time around, I’ll go with a list format for this post with links to my reviews behind each title:
1. Walking by Kim Kelly
2. Heresy by Melissa Lenhardt
3. The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
4. Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan
5. The Mercies by Kiran Millwood
6. The Darkest Shore by Karen Brooks
All of these books feature women who exhibit the characteristics of being fearless: courageous, dauntless, perhaps a little bit daring, a woman who is brave facing dangerous or difficult situations with courage.
Enjoy!
Next month we’ll begin with Stasiland by Anna Funder, which is a book I’ve been keen to read for some time now.
Theresa Smith Writes 
I did a couple of versions of six degrees this month, one of which was going to include Walking but in the end I went in a different direction.
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I will take a look! 😊 I love the way this meme gets you thinking and going back through books you’ve loved or ones you want to read.
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LOL Theresa, do you realise that none of the women on your bookcovers have heads!
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Not until now! 😂
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How funny, though not surprising given the dale, that you and Lisa both had an IWD focus. I’m afraid though that I don’t know any of these books.
BTW, I had more false starts with this chain than usual. I wonder why? I have already done next month’s.
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I had a little chuckle when I saw Lisa’s chain! Those ‘snap’ moments are always fun to discover.
I was set on the eco-lit theme and my first link was going to be to Greenwood by Michael Christie, a recent Scribe release, but I couldn’t progress further than that.
I haven’t read Stasiland yet, but I could do the chain easily now as I have read other books on that theme.
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You could, and I can talk, but it is well worth reading, and you did have a meme goal this year as I recollect!?
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Yes, I did. And this is one I’ve been intending on reading so I’ll aim to slot it in to this month’s reading.
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I haven’t even started thinking about this! Somehow 6 degrees always creeps up on my unawares….
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It does, yes!
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What a clever idea! Of these I gave both The Mercies and The Darkest Shore five stars.
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Same! They were both stand out reads for me too.
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I think it was remiss of me not to set this month’s chain with something more specific to IWD – I’ll have to keep it in mind for next year.
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Hindsight…you know what they say! I spent the week prior trying to make an eco-lit chain and it only occured to me on the day to go with IWD instead.
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Fearless women is a great idea for this chain. I can give you more. For example, Nina in The Huntress by Kate Quinn. There’s also The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton (about the woman who started the Kindertransport), Mistress of the Ritz by Melanie Benjamin (about Blanche Auzello), and there are several books about Nellie Bly out there. Also, I’m reading Ariel Lawhon’s new novel “Code Name Helene” about Nancy Wake, the Australian who was a spy for the allies during WWII and practically ran a huge part of the resistance in France.
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There’s another new release about Nancy Wake that I’m expecting a copy of soon, it’s called Liberation by Imogen Kealey. She really did embody the very definition of fearless!
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I don’t know Imogen Kealey, but the Lawhon book is FABULOUS! (It should be made into a movie!)
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This new book is to be a companion to a movie starring Anne Hathaway…just going by the press release.
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Once again, the indie author gets gazumped by Hollywood. Okay… so… I just read an excerpt of Liberation by Imogen Kealey on Amazon and… to be honest… it didn’t grab me. Still, I hope you enjoy it, but you really should try Code Name Helene!
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I will definitely check it out!
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These all sound amazing! I have read enough about C.S. Lewis (also Surprised by Joy) to know the basics about his wife but I hadn’t thought about her being so interesting. I hope some of these others have been or will be published in the US.
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Becoming Mrs. Lewis was just an incredible novel! I really encourage you to read it if you admire C.S. Lewis. You should have Heresy in the US, and possibly Walking (through Book Depository perhaps) but not sure about the others.
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