My Head Is Full of Books: Six Degrees of Separation -- from RAPTURE to ...

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Friday, May 9, 2025

Six Degrees of Separation -- from RAPTURE to ...

It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as all participants, add six books, and see where we all end up.

Six Degrees of Separation. We begin with

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Rapture by Emily Maguire.
I haven't read the book, but the word "rapture" is a term used by Christians to describe a future event when believers will be caught up and taken to heaven in one big time event. The word 'rapture' is not actually found in the Bible.
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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.
Another book with a biblical title. Gilead is mentioned in the Old Testament and it refers to a place, the land of Gilead or Mount Gilead. In the book a father is writing letters for his young son to read when he is gone.
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
A Black father writes letters to his teenage son about the racist world he lives in.

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Peace Like a River by Leif Enger.
This book is decidedly spiritual also. The book is about a father and his relationship with his children who are all very different from each other. It is a great favorite of mine and I've read it several times.
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The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea.
A Mexican-American family whose father, Don Antonio, named his oldest and youngest children Angel. Big Angel is hosting a birthday party for himself before he dies from a cancer that will take him soon. His siblings are all there including Little Angel. The two brothers, both Angels, haven't seen each other for a long time.
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck.
The sibling rivalry is strong in this book, an allegory of the Cain and Abel story in the Bible.
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The Brothers Karamazov (correct title) by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Another book about brothers. This particular cover is off. Even the title isn't right. It is sort of chilling and disorienting.
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Rapture by Emily Maguire.
This edition of the book, published by Sceptre, has a very chilling cover. The first cover, published by Allen and Unwin, is so lovely and this one is frightening and disorienting.

Well, I ended back where I started, but landed on a creepier cover.

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-Anne