It’s time for #6degrees, inspired by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. We all start at the same place as other readers, add six books, and see where it ends up. This month’s starting point is Salman Rushdie’s memoir, Knife.First Degree
The attack on Rushdie in 2022 was horrific but I am not planning to read about it. Absorbing the newspapers every day is scary enough and I prefer my reading to be escapist. In that vein, I just read Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando Murrin (2004), which is set in a cooking school in a London mansion.
My favorite books this month were The Lost Passenger, which is much more than a Titanic story, a reread of The Heart Speaks Many Ways, and Just for the Summer, a contemporary romance set in Minnesota. I appreciated Prophet Song, the 2023 Booker winner, and its depiction of an authoritarian state but it was hard to enjoy something so much like our daily life and worries.
