All of my books are bumping into each other

[Susan]

when I read Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline I , of curse, knew it was about the orphan trains. But in three other books I have read recently (The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty, My Notorious Life by Kate Manning, and After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story by Michael Hainey) the subject of the orphan train popped up. Then I read The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin, which I knew was about Anne Morrow Lindburgh and Charles Lindburgh. A few weeks later I thought One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson, about all the events of that particular summer, sounded interesting, without making the connection that one of the major events was -- the solo flight of Charles Lindburgh. (As a backstory to Lindburgh's flight, the 1919 transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown was mentioned. Their story comprised a segment in TransAtlantic by Colum McCann which I read recently). One of the other events discussed in the 1927 book was the major flooding of the Mississippi that year, and the involvement of Herbert Hoover in the rescue efforts. Today I picked up The Tilted World by Tom Franklin, the subject of which I knew nothing, but got because I so enjoyed Franklin's Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, and discovered that it was about -- the flooding of the Mississippi in 1927, and by page 12 Herbert Hoover was mentioned. Has anyone else found coincidences like this?

[Meghan]

I read The Chaperone right after Orphan Train without noticing the former would have it as a subplot. I honestly liked how The Chaperone presented the topic better than Orphan Train, though I did not like the book overall.

[Margaret]

Susan wrote: "when I read Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline I , of curse, knew it was about the orphan trains. But in three other books I have read recently ([book:The Chapero..."

Yes, this has been happening to my choices as well. I think perhaps it is because I am drawn to a particular type of well-researched historical novel. When historical events cross over country borders, the books are written from the perspective of that country, even though a different author.

[Susan]

Margaret wrote: "Susan wrote: "when I read Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline I , of curse, knew it was about the orphan trains. But in three other books I have read recently ([bo..."

That makes sense. I do like certain eras in history.