Has anyone else experienced a connection between a book they are reading, to a book they have just finished? Almost without fail, a book I am reading has some connection to the previous book I finished. The books can be completely different genres and seemingly unrelated, but there seems to be a continuous train of connections between the books. It can be a character's name, a location, an occupation, a tradition or belief, a physical or mental illness… Anything!!! For example, I read Frozen River earlier this year and there was a deaf mute in it. The next book I read also did. How often does a deaf mute turn up in a book, and for me to have it happen twice in a row?! The last book I read was The Thread Collectors (a book dealing with slavery during the Civil War) and it mentioned how the Gullahs painted walls blue to keep out evil. I'm now reading a ghost story and that same blue wall/Gullah connection is in this one too. It's uncanny! I read a lot, mixing up genres as I go, and I honestly can't remember the last time that I didn't have a connection between books.
by LeeAnnLongsocks
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Back in high school, I had to choose a book from a long list to read for lit class. I chose 1984. A month later, I had to choose 2 more books that were similar for a larger report on collective themes, so I chose a brave new world and man in the high castle.
It gets weird when I had to choose a science book to do a report on in my science class, and I picked a book at random called post human future, which mentioned 1984 and brave new world in its opening paragraph. Right after I was done with that report my lit teacher assigned us a new book. Fahrenheit 451.
More recently, I was reading recourse wars, a 25 year old book just to learn 2 weeks after reading it that an island called Bougainville was becoming an independent country due to everything the 25 year old book mentioned.