Im reading a couple books at once, 1984 by George Orwell and Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult. I just got to the part in Mad Honey where one of the main characters recites a poem: *Oranges and Lemons say the Bells of St. Clements…* Which is a pretty large part of 1984. Weird coincidence.
A couple of months ago I read the Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee and then immediately read Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci, where towards the end of the book he references the Emperor of All Maladies.
Weird coincidences, and I feel like they happen a lot as I read more. Has this happened recently to anyone else?
by salsalunchbox
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What’s the coincidence here, that you personally happened to read a book that makes a nod or a reference to a book you’ve already read? Yeah that happens to anyone who reads books. Writers read and sometime will reference stuff they’ve read.