It’s time for #6degrees. It’s unquestionably the least demanding bookish meme on the interwebs, so join in!

Six Degrees of Separation is a monthly meme hosted by Books Are My Favourite and Best. The idea is to start with the book that Kate gives us and then create a chain of six books, each suggested by the one before…

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A Book From the Bottom of Your TBR Pile
A Book From the Bottom of Your TBR Pile

This month we begin with Arthur Golden’s international best-seller, Memoirs of a Geisha. I haven’t read it but I do recognise that eye-catching cover.

A biography/memoir I loved that has a (tenuous) Japanese link is J. G. Ballard’s Miracles of Life and which was also made into the film Empire of the Sun starring a young Christian Bale.

Another memoir that’s been turned into a film is Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I loved this audiobook that I borrowed from the library but haven’t watched the film yet.

Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route into Spain by Jack Hitt.  I thought I added this to Goodreads after enjoying the film (The Way starring Martin Sheen) that it’s loosely based on.  Whether I ever get to reading it is another matter!

A book I definitely did add to my Goodreads shelf this morning, is by Two Steps Forward by husband and wife team Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist. It’s also about walking the Camino de Santiago.

My final choice has got to be The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. A story about a retired man unexpectedly walking from the West Country in England to Berwick upon Tweed on the Scottish border, to save his friend Queenie from cancer. I listened to the audiobook narrated by Jim Broadbent and it turned out to be a new favourite of mine.

Well I certainly didn’t expect this to be all about hiking.
Hope you enjoyed the trip!