It’s time for another adventure in Kate’s 6 Degrees of Separation Meme from her blog, Books Are My Favourite and Best. We are given a book to start with, and from there we free associate six books.
June’s challenge starts with a book by Austrian author Stefan Zweig – The Post-Office Girl.
first degree
We English-speaking readers must access The Post-Office Girl in translation. I’ve recently added another translated work to my TBR list, Taiwan Travelogue: A Novel by Shuang-zi Yang, translated by Lin King, 2026 winner of the International Booker Prize.
second degree
Why am I adding to my TBR list when I’ve had Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, on my to-be-reread shelf for quite a long time?
third degree
A translated work that I read recently is Thirteen Hours by Deon Meyer. Set in South Africa, this book was translated from Afrikaans by K.L. Seegers.
fourth degree
I bought Meyer’s book at a bookstore in Cape Town, South Africa, on our recent trip. Another book I purchased on the same trip is Her Many Faces by Nicci Cloke, which I bought at Heathrow airport in London and read on the 10-hour flight back to the U.S.
fifth degree
When I bought Her Many Faces, the store was having a sale: Buy one book at full price, get a second for half price. The second book I picked up (but have not yet read) is The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke.
sixth degree
To prevent the ending of her life from writing itself, 89-year-old Joy Bridport decides to shake things up a bit. Joy is the first-person narrator of the novel Good Joy, Bad Joy by Mikki Brammer.
Where did your 6 Degrees of Separation journey take you this month? I’m eager to read all about it.
© 2026 by Mary Daniels Brown
