The #6degrees meme is hosted at Books are my Favourite and Best.
This month the chain begins with The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. I read this but I didn't like it as well as (1) Our Man in Havana which was the first Greene novel I had read. The next Graham Greene novel I plan to read is (2) The Quiet American. There is a movie version of this novel which stars Michael Caine. The book ended up on my TBR after I read (3) Blowing the Bloody Doors Off which is Michael Caine's memoir. Another celebrity memoir I read recently was (4) Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes. Like the Caine book it was an entertaining combination of memoir and self-help. I don't read a lot of memoir, but I am a big fan of biography. I like the more objective point-of-view that a biographer brings to their subject. Robert Caro wrote a book called (5) Working which is a fascinating look behind the curtain at how this Pulitzer-prize-winning biographer creates his books. There are quite a few biographies on my TBR list, but one of the next ones I plan to read is (6) The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene by the Canadian poet and biographer Richard Thomas Greene.
And... she goes full circle! Brava! That Shonda Rhimes book does sound interesting.
ReplyDeleteI like that you focused on books by Greene and memoirs / biographies in this chain. I always mean to read more by Greene but still haven't read that many of his books.
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