Top Five Tuesday was originally created by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm, but is now hosted by Meeghan @ Meeghan Reads. To participate, link your post back to Meeghan’s blog or leave a comment on her weekly post. I found this on Davida's Page @ The Chocolate Lady.
And here is a list of all the topics for the rest of the year.
Grenville, Kate "The Secret River" - 2005
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This week’s topic is Secret Societies.
Like the last two weeks, this doesn't fit my usual genres, but I have read a few books with the word "Secret" in the title. So I'm going with that twist.
All of the books are fantastic but very different. And they span a lot of different countries and cultures, Australia, China, Syria and the USA.
All of the books are fantastic but very different. And they span a lot of different countries and cultures, Australia, China, Syria and the USA.
Schami, Rafik "The Calligrapher’s Secret" (GE: Das Geheimnis des Kalligraphen) - 2008
See, Lisa "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" - 2005
Thomson, Mike "Syria's Secret Library: The True Story of How a Besieged Syrian Town Found Hope" - 2018
Wells, Rebecca "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" - 1996
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I haven't read these.
ReplyDeleteI could think of the Hermes Society, in Babel, by Kuang.
By the way, yesterday night, I listened to a 1 hour zoom interview with Kuang, organized by all the Illinois libraries. The best author interview I have listened to for years!
What a wonderful person, and a real serious intellectual, in the best sense of the word. Quite impressive!
I have not read that one, Emma. Or anything by Kuang. Sounds interesting, though.
DeleteThe first book that came to mind when I saw the words secret societies is Umberto Eco's Foucault Pendulum. A book full of secrets and secret societies. :D
ReplyDeleteI've only read The Name of the Rose by Eco. But I have The Prague Cemetery on my TBR pile.
DeleteThanks, Lark.
I've been looking at 'The Prague Cemetery' recently as part of my world tour... With luck (and a fair wind) I might just get to it this year.
DeleteI have read some interesting non-fiction about secret societies, but my favorites are a fiction trilogy (though I hope there are more to come) by Leigh Bardugo.
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