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bellbird

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i wasn't sure what to title this thread but my question revolves around whether other people experience this with books.

So I don't have much of a process for deciding what i read next, i'll admit i'm sucked in by cover art mostly when i skim titles on my ipod or ebook, some of which have been there for ages and there's no way i can remember blurbs etc from last week, let alone last year.
But most of the time there will be something that makes the book i finished carry over into the new, unrelated book (or the one i'm reading link to the one i'm audiobooking at the same time). Like the girl in the last one will be called say Abigail and then the next book, the girl is also called Abigail. Or the main character will play piano (or hockey) and then the next book a different character also plays piano (or hockey).

I did it intentionally this week (i started a book called Oasis that i had, after reading Ready Player One book which was all about Oasis) but it's usually random. Like I read The Second Life of Amy Archer and then Ugly Love, where the main guy's name is Miles Archer... Does this happen to others a lot? It's definitely a stop and take notice moment for me when it happens and it kinda feels eerie. It also makes reading feel like I'm just playing a big 'join the dots' puzzle.
 
That is strange. I don't find that so much in books (because I haven't been reading in the past couple of months), but I have noticed it a lot with other things lately. Like a big bundle of synchronicity is wrapped around me.

I think it is kind of a cool thing. Like you are all of a sudden in a higher mental plane, noticing things that other people don't... or something.

Let us know when you find more!
 
Yes! This has been happening to me a lot.... I'll read one book set in WWII and then when I look through my to-read list and all the next books I want to read end up being set in the same time period, or I'll even read un-related books and find common themes in them that I probably wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't read them one after the other... Like Ready Player One and then I read Fahrenheit 451 (written in 1953) and I found a lot of similarites about people losing themselves in forms of entertainment that take them away from reality.
 
A few years back, I read a random string of books that all happened to have a character named Clara in them. Which was strange, especially since it's my daughter's name and we don't hear it that often. I don't remember the books now (well, except Clara and Mr. Tiffany, which is an obvious one)... but I wonder now if they were all set in the same basic time period when that was a more common name.
 
i do tend to read series but two unrelated books i read in a short period had a plot point about a bomb dropped on the cafe de paris in london during world war two
 
that is so crazy! I haven't really noticed this with me but I have such a hard time reading as much as I used to that it's like just one book a month haha! Usually I get stuck in themes or genres and that's the only major connection I have noticed. :)
 
bellbird said:
I did it intentionally this week (i started a book called Oasis that i had, after reading Ready Player One book which was all about Oasis) but it's usually random.
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I heard of the book Oasis after finishing Ready Player One and I was like "WHAT?!" lol. But as far as your original question, I don't have a common thread. At least I don't think I do. But maybe I just haven't noticed it? Though I'm usually pretty good with connections. ;)
 
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