Six Degrees of Separation: Yesteryear to The Warmth of Other Suns
This is my first time playing Six Degrees of Separation where readers start with one book and make six connections to see where we all end up. I’ve enjoyed many of these on Marg’s blog, The Intrepid Reader and Baker. The host blog is booksaremyfavouriteandbest. She posts a linky for us on the first Saturday of the month.
For July, our starting books is Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke, a novel about a tradwife influencer who finds herself thrown back into the nineteenth century. I first heard about this book when I learned that Anne Hathaway would star in the film adaptation.
Anne Hathaway starred in The Princess Diaries, based on the novel by Meg Cabot.
Given that we’re celebrating a big round-numbered anniversary in the US today, I’ll connect to another Meg Cabot book, All-American Girl. All-American Girl is a rom-com about a romance with the son of the President of the United States.
Another popular novel featuring a romance with the son of the President of the United States is Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston. Alex and Henry develop their relationship through conversations about books.
One of the books that Alex reads is the novel Another Country by James Baldwin, which is partly set in Harlem.
Our book club declared this a Great American Novel
When my book group read Invisible Man, we agreed that we were glad that we had previously read The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson because it provided helpful background to black characters who moved from the south to the north. No one can understand where the US stands in 2026, 250 years after declaring independence, without understanding the Great Migration.
That was fun! I look forward to future Six Degrees of Separation posts.