It’s time for #6degrees, inspired by Kate at
Books Are My Favourite and Best. Start at the same place as other avid readers, add six books, and see where you end up.
This month’s chain begins with
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner who often writes about celebrities for the New York Times Magazine.
I have not yet read
Fleishman but the author’s name led me to my first book which is
Daddy- Long-Legs by Jean Webster (1912), an old favorite. At a fictional college based on
Vassar, orphaned Judy learns how to have fun as well as to study, making choices and developing personality not previously available to her. There is plenty of taffy and fudge making (a pity that tradition has not endured) in these college stories.
As Bronte Coates observes,
“A variant on the boarding school theme, these stories were set in fictionalised versions of women’s colleges and are credited as playing a part in normalising the idea of higher education for women.”
