Six Degrees of Separation – From Wifedom to When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit #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…

This month Kate’s starter book is Wifedom by Anna Funder. “It speaks to the unsung work of women everywhere today, while offering a breathtakingly intimate view of one of the most important literary marriages of the 20th century. It is a book that speaks to our present moment as much as it illuminates the past.”

I’ve not read this bokk by Anna Funder and bet have read All That I Am and Stasiland. I read Stasiland back in 2014, and although I found it chilling and very uncomfortable reading I really enjoyed it, probably because I spent a day in East Berlin the summer before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.

Another book that I found chilling, but didn’t enjoy, The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman in fact it took me a year to read it because it was so harrowing!

The Lilac Girls by Martha Kelly was another book I struggled to finish. Fortunately it was buddy read with Yvo @ It’s All About Books who helped me get through those scenes in Ravensbruck.

The Choice: Embrace The Impossible by Edith Eger who was hard to listen to at times, but it was also full of hope, which is something I really need when reading/listening to anything connected to WW2 and the Holocaust.

Eddie Jaku’s memoir The Happiest Man on Earth was also another book full of hope in the midst of the Holocaust. It was an upsetting story, but also a hopeful one, and one I’m very glad to have listened to.

As I’m mentioning books about the Holocaust and WW2, I have to include When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr, as it’s one of all time favourite books, a book I re-read regularly since first reading it at school as a child.

Starting with Wifedom by Anna Funder and ending with When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr via other books set during WW2 and the Holocaust  what a unexpected trip?!