{"id":4381,"date":"2025-01-08T21:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/six-degrees-of-separation-orbital-to-disobedience\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T21:45:11","slug":"six-degrees-of-separation-orbital-to-disobedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=4381","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Separation \u2013 Orbital to Disobedience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Six Degrees of Separation is a meme hosted by Kate over at <a href=\"https:\/\/booksaremyfavouriteandbest.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Books Are My Favourite and Best<\/a>. It works like this: each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six others to form a chain. A book doesn\u2019t need to be connected to all the titles on the list, only to the one next to\u00a0it in the chain.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34305\" src=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Six-Degrees-Orbital-to-Disobedience.png\" alt=\"Cover images\" width=\"811\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Six-Degrees-Orbital-to-Disobedience.png 811w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Six-Degrees-Orbital-to-Disobedience-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Six-Degrees-Orbital-to-Disobedience-768x473.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This month we\u2019re starting with Samantha Harvey\u2019s Booker Prize winning <strong><em>Orbital<\/em><\/strong> which I\u2019ve yet to read by I know is loved by many blogger pals whose opinions I trust.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Sinclair\u2019s <strong><em>London Orbital<\/em><\/strong> takes its readers on a walk around the M25 which I gather is not as dull as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Sinclair\u2019s name is closely associated with the term \u2018psychogeography\u2019 something Dan Rhodes takes a pop at in <a href=\"https:\/\/alifeinbooks.co.uk\/2021\/11\/sour-grapes-by-dan-rhodes-getting-things-off-your-chest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Sour Grapes<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, his enjoyable satire on the literary world.<\/p>\n<p>Rhodes has a lot of fun with Wilberforce Selfram, a lanky pedant with an abstruse vocabulary, a barely disguised Will Self who wrote an introduction for a long-ago edition of Russell Hoban\u2019s <strong><em>Riddley Walker. <\/em><\/strong>I wrote the reading group guide but I don\u2019t think that was mentioned on the cover\u2026<strong><em><br \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hoban\u2019s novel is written in an imagined post-apocalyptic version of English as is Anthony Burgess\u2019s <strong><em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Leading me to <strong><em>Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit<\/em><\/strong>, Jeanette Winterson\u2019s fictionalised coming-of-age story about growing up as a lesbian in a strict Pentecostal family.<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Alderman\u2019s <strong><em>Disobedience<\/em><\/strong> sees another young woman briefly returning to the strict religious community from which she walked away so that she can attend her ex-girlfriend\u2019s wedding.<\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s Six Degrees has taken me from a novel set over a day on a spacecraft to another in which a woman revisits her past, finding it more complex than she\u2019d thought.\u00a0Part of the fun of this meme is comparing the very different routes other bloggers take from each month\u2019s starting point. If you\u2019re interested, you can follow it on Twitter with the hashtag #6Degrees, check out the links over at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/booksaremyfavouriteandbest.wordpress.com\/6-degrees-of-separation-meme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kate\u2019s blog<\/a>\u00a0or perhaps even join in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-52859811-34304-677edf3280697\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=14.2#blog_id=52859811&amp;post_id=34304&amp;origin=alifeinbooks.co.uk&amp;obj_id=52859811-34304-677edf3280697&amp;n=1\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-52859811-34304-677edf3280697\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Degrees of Separation is a meme hosted by Kate over at Books Are My Favourite and Best. It works like this: each month a book is chosen as a starting point and linked to six others to form a chain. 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