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Cannery Row | John Steinbeck

#12Booksof2024 @Andrew65

Jan: Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Feb: War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad - Christopher Logue
Mar: Hollywood Behind the Lens - Marc Wannamaker & Stephen Bingen - ARC read
Apr: Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
May: Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath - Heather Clark
Jun: We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Jul: Vincent: a Graphic Biography - Simon Elliott - ARC read
Aug: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

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Sept: The Labours of Hercules - Agatha Christie
Oct: Myths from Mesopotamia – Stephanie Dalley
Nov: Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour - Fay Blanchard & Anthony Spira
Dec: The Castle - Franz Kafka (edited) 1mo

Andrew65 Some great choices. 1mo

AnishaInkspill @Andrew65 thanks, it's been a fantastic year, and looking forward to 2025. 1mo

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Decalino

In Dubious Battle | John Steinbeck

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I read this for book club, and while it doesn't rise to the level of Steinbeck's later more well-known works, it has a historical significance that makes it worth reading. Jim, a young man searching for meaning, joins Mac, an experienced activist, in an effort to organize a strike among apple pickers in 1930s California. The novel focuses on the mechanics of the strike rather than the interior lives of characters, but presents a vivid picture.

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Eggs

Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) | John Steinbeck

“Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.” Loved this book 📖

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dabbe The chapter with Charley and the bear brings me to my knees in laughter. 🧡🤎💛 2mo

Eggs @dabbe 🙌🏻🙌🏻 2mo

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Therewillbebooks

The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication | John Steinbeck

Pretty decent book haul.

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CoffeeNBooks

To a God Unknown | John Steinbeck

#WickedWhispers #Unknown
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 👍🏻📚🙌🏻 4mo

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 4mo

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CoffeeNBooks

The Winter of Our Discontent | John Steinbeck

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Team #DeadSerious @OriginalCyn620

OriginalCyn620 🖤🖤🖤 4mo

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TheAromaofBooks

The Red Pony | John Steinbeck

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In general, I like Steinbeck's writing, despite the fact that it's super depressing. But this collection of four loosely-connected short stories just didn't work for me. They felt unnecessarily brutal without any real character growth. Jody is a little boy when we meet him, and still a little boy in the end, and I feel like he's basically the same little boy - and not a particularly likable one for me since he teases the dog when he's bored and ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont\'d) enjoys killing things. Each of these stories pivots around a death of an animal, a person, or a dream, and just seemed relentlessly lacking in any kind of hope. Steinbeck wrote these stories while caring for his dying parents, so I get that his head wasn\'t really in a great place. But while I can see myself revisiting a lot of his work, this isn\'t one I\'ll pick up again.

What did the rest of you think? Did you get something out of these⬇ 4mo

TheAromaofBooks (cont\'d) stories that I missed? The introduction to my edition calls these \“anti-pastoral\“ - basically stories that show the brutal, violent side of country/farm life. But I grew up in the country and around farms, and while it\'s definitely not all sunshine and rainbows, this felt like quite the wallowing in the darker side without even a hint of the many joys that accompany this lifestyle. I\'m interested to hear your thoughts!! 4mo

TheAromaofBooks @BarkingMadRead @CatLass007 @Jerdencon @Lcsmcat @Teresereading 4mo

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BarkingMadRead Still have to finish so I will come back when I‘m done! 4mo

dabbe #fanofthepan! #betterbooksahead 🙌🏻 I made the mistake years ago of reading this out loud to my 7th graders without having read it first. At a climatic moment, I was sobbing so hard, I had to leave the classroom to get myself together. Never read it again. 😭 4mo

CogsOfEncouragement This was my first time reading it. The only thing I think I pulled out of it was Billy was responsible for the red pony dying. He thought it wouldn‘t rain, and if it did, it would be fine. He felt horrible about it but couldn‘t reverse it. In contrast Carl killed people‘s spirits, and he did it with intention. 4mo

julieclair I‘m glad I wasn‘t alone in feeling this book was brutal. And kind of pointless. And had a main character that I wanted to feel sorry for but couldn‘t because he enjoyed killing animals. This was one weird book. 4mo

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CoffeeNBooks

The Wayward Bus | John Steinbeck

#SchoolSpirit #Bus
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Eggs Classic 🖤🤍🩶 5mo

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julieclair

The Red Pony | John Steinbeck

Can‘t wait for the #RandomClassics discussion on this one. Just finished it and I am dazed and confused. 🥴 Hoping my fellow Littens can enlighten me!
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TheAromaofBooks Oh dear, I haven't read it yet. I'm so terrified 😂 5mo

julieclair @TheAromaofBooks 😂 5mo

Teresereading It‘s bleak! 3mo

julieclair @Teresereading Agreed! 3mo

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CogsOfEncouragement

The Red Pony | John Steinbeck

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I‘ve read a few Steinbeck through the years, but not this. Now I‘m ready for the #RandomClassic discussion later this month.

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