![]() ![]() This reminded me of Carol Shields’ book Happenstance, two stories about the same five-day period – one from Jack Bowman’s point of view, and the other from his wife, Brenda’s. I see that there are two versions: one begins with the contemporary story, the other with the 15th-century story. I haven’t read this book but I’d like to sometime. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real-and all life’s givens get given a second chance.’ (Goodreads) There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. ![]() ‘How to be Both is a novel all about art’s versatility. This month (April 6, 2019), the chain begins with Ali Smith’s award-winning novel, How to be Both. A book doesn’t need to be connected to all the other books on the list, only to the one next to it in the chain. Each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six other books to form a chain. I love doing Six Degrees of Separation, a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. ![]()
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