I love when my books arrive well read + notes. It‘s nice to see other perspectives. I‘m rereading East of Eden so I can discuss it with an old university friend. She‘s an editor, and I‘m a historian. This should be fun!

I find myself reading this book for the first time in order to help my niece with her book report. Somehow, I missed it in the early 80s when I should have read it. It‘s Friday night, and I‘m 50 pages into this quite wonderful book and don‘t see myself putting it down anytime soon.

I wanted to love this book, but the prose was pedestrian and overwrought, the characters were underdeveloped (especially Gloria), and the ending was far too sentimental.