March is upon us and there is another book chain to consider. Host,
Books Are My Favourite And Best, starts with
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby. I am not familiar with the book, but it is about football in general and the author's relationship with Arsenal Football Club in particular. It is Hornby's first book, published in 1992, and is said to be an autobiographical essay.
The first word coming into mind is of course 'sport'. I don't really like reading about sports, and don't know about any books about sports either. However, I did read
I am Zlatan by David Lagercrantz, which is a biography about one of our greatest football players ever, Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
That takes me to 'David Lagercrantz' who wrote the sequel to the
Millenium book by Stieg Larsson. It is called
The Girl in the Spider's Web. I have not read it, and am not sure I will, although I read the first three ones.
The word girl, or girls, takes me to Lee Smith's
The Last Girls, which I finished recently. A group of girls went on a raft down the Mississippi, in the foot steps of Huckleberry Finn, during their college years. Thirty five years later, four of them meet up again, to take a boat down the river, in honouring their friend who died. A really good story, where nothing is as it seems to be. Review will follow.
The word to go from here will be 'voyage', and I settle for
Fatal Voyage by Kathy Reichs. Our favourite forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan is in action again. Don't we just love her?
'Forensic' takes us to any murder mystery, and I settle for one book on my shelves, not yet read. That is
Playing With Fire by Peter Robinson. I have read one book by him and liked it.
'Fire' takes me to Sweden and the second part of a fantasy trilogy by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergmark,
Eld or
Fire. I have read the first one,
The Circle which is very good. Looking forward to his one.
There I went very quickly from football, to girls, to fire and a few travels in between.
I like the way you've picked out a key word and used that as a prompt for the next link - I shall have a go at that with the next chain I think . I spend ages trying to find a connection so this might help me speed up! Here's what I ended up with - like you I'm not keen on sport https://bookertalk.com/2017/03/04/football/
ReplyDeleteHi Karen, thank you. It was more tricky this time, maybe because I did not know about the book. I do like sports, I just don't like to read about them. A little bit like music, love it, but do not have to read about it.
ReplyDeleteI like your chain as well and think it is really good.
Thank you for posting and now I will enter you into my feedly feed!