Books and Authors I Get Mixed Up For No Good Reason:
Kate Morton's The House at Riverton and
Kate Grenville's The Secret River
Obviously, the Kate's and both containing River have contributed to this problem
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley and 
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Both with Sweet, and similar B words (bitter, bottom) and really long titles, and plain Anglo-Saxon names by the author.
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Kesai and
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriIndian women names, and long vowel beginning words in the title.
Do you have books or authors you get mixed up?
Yes. There are a few that I have the same problem with, but I can't think of them at the moment!
ReplyDeleteOh, God, I so do this. With the "sweet" set for sure (though I've got these sorted out now), and I can't think of any others. But I do it all the time, with authors as well when they have similar names.
ReplyDeleteI've thought of one - I get Paulo Coehlo and Italo Calvino mixed up. No excuse for it, their names are hardly similar at all. I expect once I read something by Calvino, the problem will solve itself (she said optimistically).
ReplyDeletekailana - that's because you still think they are just one person! You'll never remember them until you realize they are actually 2.
ReplyDeletejenny - I can see the Coehlo and Calvino mix up. I've read one of each and certainly you won't have that problem once you've read one. I think I prefer Calvino, but they are fairly equal.
I don't get any of the ones you mention mixed up, but I do know I have mixed up several in the past. I always get confused between Zadie Smith and Monica Ali, forgetting who wrote which book. I think the main problem was that I didn't know they were two different authors until last year, so now struggle to remember who wrote what.
ReplyDeleteThey don't sound similar - just two women from the Booker lists and for some reason I combined them in my head!
I get the second set mixed up all the time. LOL
ReplyDeleteFOr me it's Zadie Smith and Zoe Heller, also. I conflate the two all the time. I am sitting here trying to remember if they really are different people anyway...
ReplyDeleteI get those last two confused all the time, to the point that I am SURE it's the same author.
ReplyDeleteI have done that with Kate Morton & Kate Grenville, too! Which is bizarre as The Secret River is one of my favorite books EVER. I think I have done it with another Kate, too, about some garden book...?
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