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 one ends up. This month’s starting point is The Road by Cormac McCarthy: “his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi” (author website). I have read at least one book by McCarthy but this sounded way too much like real life!
My first book involves more cheerful roads:
The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum (1909). In this fifth Oz book, Dorothy and Toto (back in Kansas) meet the Shaggy Man, who asks them to point out the road to Butterfield. When the road splits into seven different paths, they take the seventh and have various adventures before arriving in Oz. Of course, nowadays Aunt Em would be very concerned about Dorothy talking to a stranger who looks like a tramp, let alone heading off into the sunset with him! My great-grandfather read the first fourteen Oz books to his children and I believe our copy of this book was the first edition.
