Search results
2 days ago · There’s any number of books about damaged children, but one that I enjoyed more was Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart. It’s about a little boy growing up with his alcoholic mother, and Stewart catches well the emotional nuances of a child’s sense of obligation and persistence in keeping on hoping, and trying to keep a parent sober.
2 days ago · 6 Degrees of Separation: From “Butter” to “Babel”. It’s time for another adventure in Kate’s 6 Degrees of Separation Meme from her blog, Books Are My Favourite and Best. We are given a book to start with, and from there we free associate six books. This month’s starting point is a crime novel with difference – Butter by Asako ...
2 days ago · Inspired by the concept of ‘six degrees of separation’, originally set out in a short story by Frigyes Karinthy, which suggests that any two people in the world are connected through a chain of six or fewer people, the meme brings this concept into the world of books. Each month, beginning with a starter book that Kate selects (the month ...
2 days ago · It’s the first Saturday of the month which means it’s time for 6 Degrees of Separation. Here’s how it works: a book is chosen as a starting point by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best and linked to six other books to form a chain. Readers and bloggers are invited to join in by creating their own ‘chain’ leading from the selected ...
2 days ago · It’s the first Saturday of the month which means it’s time for another Six Degrees of Separation, hosted by Kate of Books are my Favourite and Best.The idea is that Kate chooses a book to use as a starting point and then we have to link it to six other books of our choice to form a chain.
2 days ago · Six Degrees of Separation is the brain child of Kate over at Books Are My Favourite and Best where we all start with the same book and see where our links take us! Follow the hashtag #6degrees on Twitter to check out everyone else’s chains. This month’s starting point is Butter by Asako Yuzuki. Butter by Asako Yuzuki,…
5 days ago · Seven Degrees of Separation. For Gizon and colleagues, the twisty nature of the inertial modes was a sign of an underlying instability in the plasma, similar to atmospheric instabilities such as ...
