Second Degree: Sticking with the same author and the name / surname chain, let’s go with My name is Lucy Barton, also by Elizabeth Strout. Let’s start with the name + surname similarities.įirst Degree: Our first degree are still a bit on the heavy side, but a book that we loved so much – Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout How are we going to cheer this one up? Guess I’m going to have to build this one up a bit. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book. In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent. The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countrysideĮthan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. Are we really that clueless? Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Our starting point for this month, is once again a book/novella that we have never heard about. Or you might choose to link them in more personal ways: books you read in the same holiday, books given to you by a particular friend or books that remind you of a particular time in your life. Books can be linked in obvious ways, for example: same authors, same era or genre, or books with similar themes or settings. This monthly fun meme is hosted by Books are my Favorite and Best: On the first Saturday of every month, a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain.

Just shows how quickly the year has passed us by. We haven’t done a Six Degrees post in months. Greetings! Welcome to another edition of Six Degrees of Separation.

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