My brilliantly aptly named new series continues. Where I randomly select two books from my shelves and attempt to find a link. I do not promise it will be a good link, only that it will be a link. It might be anything at all. One thing I do promise is that the link will not be due to the books both containing words such as ‘and’ or ‘the’, although having said that it’d be really awesome to now find two books totally missing both of those words.
The books I chose last week were Against All Things Ending by Stephen Donaldson and Webster’s Dictionary of American Authors. Stay tuned to find out if I’ve actually got a link.
The Books
Against All Things Ending is The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. What? You’ve never heard of Thomas Covenant? I can’t decide whether that’s good or bad. It’s a series from my youth that I read several times as I was so enamoured of it. You’ve got all the ingredients: a cynical writer who’s come down with leprosy and been shunned; he is transported to another land where he’s supposed to be the hero. You might possibly have guessed he’s not comfortable in that position.
Webster’s Dictionary of American Authors is a great resource if you’re looking for basic information on American Authors. As with all resource books it is limited by the date it was published i.e. 1996. I used this to help me find authors to write about in my Authors by Alphabet series and then I turned to the web for more information.
The Link
Pulling these books off my shelf last week put me in a conundrum. And to help me out of my conundrum while I write I’m listening to 2Cellos, a nonsequiteur but that’s tough, these guys are awesome. Back to the books.
Looking at these books there are a few similarities, they are roughly the same size, shape, weight and colour. They were both on my shelf. Donaldson is not listed in the book even though he should be as he fits the criteria. One is fiction while one is non-fiction. And that’s about the best I can do today. It just helps to illustrate the randomness of my selection.
Next Week!
Next week but I’ll have to pull out all the stops. I’ve pulled down Milly-Molly-Mandy and Billy Blunt by Joyce Lankester Brisley and The Summer of Sir Lancelot by Richard Gordon. I tentatively suggest that there’s no correlation between these two books.