Six Degrees of Separation – From Romantic Comedy to #6Degrees #BookTwitter #BookChain #MyBookishLife #SecretLibraryBookBlog

Six Degrees of Separation is a monthly meme hosted by Kate @ 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…

I haven’t joined in with this meme for ages and thought it was about time I did!

This month Kate’s starter book is Romantic Comedy by Curits Sittenfeld. It’s about Sally a comedy writer who thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on all her assumptions.

I must admit when this book was being raved about my heart sank as I haven’t got on with the author in the past, so I’ve ignored it.  Another book that was talked about a lot but I did read was Small Things Like These by Clare Keegan. There’s no doubt that the writing was excellent, but I was rather underwhelmed by it. 

Another book that I really didn’t understand all the hype about was The Maid by Nina Prose. the story was okay, but I still don’t understand all the love for it and wonder what I’m missing?

A book that probably hasn’t been hyped in decades is Goldfinger by Ian Fleming. I listened to it last year, but found some of it incredibly boring at times, which was a shame as I do love a Bond book.

Moonraker by Ian Fleming should have been dull because there were quite a few detailed scenes involving the card game Bridge. It didn’t bore me though, possibly because it was read by Bill Nighy who’s one of my favourite narrators/actors.

Another favourite narrator is Kobna Holdbrook-Smith who reads the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. They are the only books that I’ve totally binged listened to twice because they’ve got a little of everything in them. I started listening to them on the Borrow Box App via the library but I’m gradually buying them.

Another audiobook that I listened via the BorrowBox App was Circe by Madeleine Miller. This was a wonderful retelling of a Greek myth and I was mesmerised  by Perdita Week’s narration.

Starting with Romantic Comedy by Curits Sittenfeld and ending with Circe by Madeline Miller via  a few underwhelming books and then some favourite audiobooks with superb narrators. I hope you enjoyed the trip?! 😀