It’s the first Saturday of the month so that means it’s #6degrees of separation time! This month’s starting book is How to Do Nothing – Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell.
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.
This month’s book is one that I would never read. I don’t read a whole lot of non-fiction anyway, but is this a self-help style book? It sounds a bit like it from the title and blurb. The cover is pretty though, so I’m going to create a chain based on books with floral dominated covers such as this one.
First degree: Paris Savages by Katherine Johnson
Second degree: In the Garden of Fugitives by Ceridwen Dovey
Third degree: Her Last Words by Kim Kelly
Fourth degree: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Fifth degree: The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood
Sixth degree: Gulliver’s Wife by Lauren Chater
All the beautiful floral covers! Pretty basic chain, I know. I didn’t read the starting book but I have read all of the links in my chain – that should count for something, I hope!
Until next month! 🙂☕📚
Theresa Smith Writes 
Lots of wonderful titles with floral book covers! I wonder how far this trend goes back, and how long it will continue. It matches in well with your own blog header (which I love by the way).
My chain has a kids/YA thread through it this month: https://www.melindatognini.com.au/6-degrees-of-separation-from-how-to-do-nothing-to-the-history-of-mischief/
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Thank you, I’ve gone through about four blog headers early on but this one I’ve stuck with, it’s very ‘me’.
I could have made several chains from these sorts of covers and that was just from my ebook library! They do have appeal though.
Off to read your chain! 🙂
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That is super clever!
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Thank you! I was afraid it would appear super slack… 😂
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Really beautiful covers for ALL the books here! I never thought of going the book cover route – very creative of you! (Plus this starting point wasn’t easy. Mind you, next month is going to be even harder – Rodham sounds like alternative reality, biographical, fiction!)
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I think that’s exactly what it is! 😂
I do have a copy and plan to read it by then so hopefully my chain will take flight from the actual book next round.
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Well, to be honest, alternative reality isn’t my thing. Not sure where to go from this (because I never got around to reading Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, which was my first thought)!
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I haven’t read much alternative reality, to be honest. It remains to be seen how I go with it!
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After I had done my chain (which will be up tomorrow) I looked at the cover and thought I could have just gone with the flower theme! Love the books you have chosen – very pretty
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Thanks Marg 🙂
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They are beautiful covers – I did think How to do nothing’s cover was lovely and not at all self-help-y really, though that’s how the book came across to me too.
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Unless it were self help for growing flowers in your garden! 😂
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Very clever, Theresa! I’m skipping this month because I couldn’t think of anything that in any way related to the starting book. Book covers never even occurred to me.
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I skipped last month for that same reason! Sometimes you just can’t draw anything but a blank!
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This was a hard one for me too. My chain came from a list on Goodreads.
https://adarngoodread.blogspot.com/2020/08/six-degrees-of-separation-from-how-to-do-nothing-to-the-portrait-of-molly-dean.html
Love all the covers!
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Oooh! Will take a look.
Thanks! 🙂
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Such lovely covers, thanks for sharing your chain!
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Thanks Shelleyrae 🙂
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