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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanizedand sometimes outragedmillions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbecks Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joadsdriven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one mans fierce reaction to injustice, and of one womans stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America.At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbecks powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.This Centennial edition, specially designed to commemorate one hundred years of Steinbeck, features french flaps and deckle-edged pages.For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.
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Rachel.Rencher
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It's 50 degrees and windy, but you wouldn't know it. This reading spot is sooo cozy 🤍

Chelsea.Poole Perfection! 3w
BookmarkTavern Looks amazing! 3w
Texreader How lovely!! 3w
BarbaraBB Super cozy 😍 3w
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Judybskt
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🏡Over 31 years ago
🍇The Grapes of Wrath

@TheSpineView #two4tuesday

TheSpineView Great book choice! Thanks for playing! 4w
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dabbe
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#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView

Thanks for the tags, @TheSpineView and @The_Penniless_Author 🤩😍😃

1. Last move was on Super Bowl Sunday in February 2002. My dad was not happy since we couldn't get the cable hooked up. 😃
2. The tagged book: THE GRAPES OF WRATH. 💙🩶💙

Join in the fun, everyone! 🤩🤩🤩

TheSpineView No football!?! What a tragedy!!! 🤣🤣🤣 4w
dabbe @TheSpineView I know! 🤩😂🤩 We let him leave early because he was grouchy. 😃 4w
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Rachel.Rencher
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I found a great playlist to listen to while I read Steinbeck 🎶

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Rachel.Rencher
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I've been on a classics kick lately 😍

Ephemera After you read this, read The Worst Hard Time, a nonfiction account of the Dust Bowl devastation. 1mo
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Rissreads
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HALLELUJAH! A book this good, that I am only just discovering now! I had to see what all the fuss was about after @MrsMalaprop raved about this and talking with several students at school who have read it for their yr 12 English literature class. It gives me hope for the future when our kids can connect with such a classic.
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dabbe This book has resonated with me since high school. ❤️💜🩷 1mo
MrsMalaprop I‘m glad you loved it too. What a book 🤩. Imagine all the others out there waiting patiently for us to find them 📚😁. 1mo
SamAnne This had such an impact on me in high school. I want to reread. Even though I‘m a Steinbeck fan I‘ve yet to read East of Eden! That‘s happening this year. 1mo
Centique I remember this book shocking me and breaking my heart as a teenager 😥 1mo
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1. Absolutely! I learned to drive "3 on a tree" with my dad's '61 Valiant. Enjoyed several years with my own '88 LaBaron that had a 5th gear.
2. How about the car loaded with all the family's possessions in Grapes of Wrath? Heartbreaking image.

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView
@CrowCAH @BarbaraBB @Texreader

TheSpineView Great book. Thanks for playing!❤️📖 2mo
BarbaraBB Thanks for the tag! I immediately thought of the super scary 2mo
CrowCAH Thanks for the tag! I‘ll be sure to make a post. 2mo
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RedCurly
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This was heartbreaking. I love Steinbeck I honestly believe he is the writer who writes the most beautifully.

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MrsMalaprop
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I am stunned ?. This was F*ing brilliant and devastating and engrossing and…everything. Thank you Steinbeck for writing this classic that I have been able to appreciate for the first time at the age of 52. It gives me so much hope for all the exceptional books I have yet to discover. I gush, but well, just wow ?.

(Hope you enjoy the juxtaposition of this frivolous photo of my nails matching the décor, matching my book ?).

Suet624 Isn't it amazing when you read the classics? Some of them never grow old. 4mo
staci.reads I just read this one this year, too (at the age of 51) and was blown away! It's brilliant and deeply moving. I have no idea why it took me so long to get to it. 4mo
Tamra They can be read again and again and again. 🩷 4mo
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AmyG Agree! I read this in High School and it was a chore. I read this maybe 10 years ago and ….mind blowing. 4mo
BarbaraBB Glad you liked it so much! My favorite of his books is 4mo
Rissreads Well I haven‘t read it yet either and after this review I‘m determined to have it read this year! 2 weeks until holidays and then I can really relax and appreciate and loose myself in reading! I‘m excited just thinking about it! 4mo
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MrsMalaprop
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#currentlyreading Finally making a start on this #classic. Haven‘t read Steinbeck since high school. Think I‘m in the right headspace. With descriptions like this…it‘s not too onerous.

“…a neck as stringy and muscular as a celery stalk…” 😍

Rissreads So what was the Steinbeck book you read at school? 4mo
Rissreads Was it as good as this one? 4mo
MrsMalaprop @Rissreads It‘s hard to say 🤔. It was a long time ago & I did love it at the time. GoW is more epic & I found it very affecting. 4mo
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Bethanyroe
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It‘s been a while since I‘d read any Steinbeck. My goodness, he‘s a gifted writer. An accurately depressing depiction of families during the dust bowl migration and sadly, I‘m afraid certain aspects of this still ring true today.

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rachaich
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Flippin eck, I'd forgotten how absolutely brilliant he is at writing.
The evocative prose, the characters who are completely in my head and I'm constantly thinking about what will happen next.
I've just finished it, cried a bit and proclaimed it one of the most important novels ever.

Tamra I highly recommend the tagged book by Sonora Babbs! Apparently Steinbeck was provided with her field notes by the publisher without her knowledge. She couldn‘t get her novel published after Grapes of Wrath. 😕 6mo
rachaich @Tamra my partner also told me that... 6mo
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Sarahreadstoomuch
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I honestly thought I had read this before! But by the 2nd or 3rd chapter, it was clear to me that I hadn‘t. Yes, it‘s the story of a family just trying to survive after their farmland dries up and is taken by the bank during the depression/dust bowl. But it‘s also a stark look at family, togetherness, survival and the attitudes of haves vs have nots and how easy it is to boil over. The audio was excellent- complete with harmonica interludes.

SamAnne I read this in high school. Now it is getting banned by crazy right wingers. It had such an impact on me. My first response as a 15 year old was whew, glad that isn‘t happening anymore. Then our teacher showed us a documentary on the migrant laborers working the Minute Maid orange plantations. Thank you and RIP Ms. Dinkins. I love Steinbeck. The one major book of his that I haven‘t read is East of Eden! Am planning that this fall. 7mo
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Saknicole
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Last week of school starts tomorrow! I began Grapes of Wrath with my Honors 11 class to prep for AP next year. We will get through the first third to start their summer reading. Honestly, I‘m loving it. It is probably sacrilege to admit for an English teacher but I haven‘t read it before.

#teachersoflitsy #englishteacher #americanliterature #summerbreak #modernism #dustbowl

AmyG I read this in high school and it was a struggle. I read it again 30 years later and loved it! It‘s never too late to read a great book. (edited) 10mo
Tamra I highly recommend reading this one if you can this summer. Allegedly the publisher gave Babbs‘ field notes to Steinbeck (w/o permission or acknowledgement) and her book deal was cancelled after Grapes was published. It‘s a slim volume and I loved it. 10mo
Saknicole @Tamra thanks for the rec! I‘ll definitely pick that up this summer! 10mo
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Tamra @Saknicole 👍🏾 I hope you like it! It deserves to be read for sure. 10mo
Kimberlone This is such a beautiful book. Read it for the first time in Forster‘s American Lit class! 9mo
Kimberlone My only negative about this book is that it was clearly an inspiration for one of my most hated books 9mo
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Gissy
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One of those long books that you don‘t feel it long at all because you want to know more about the story, about this family. A good book with a sad story. Difficult social-political times. That ending, trying to go on. The mother, Ma, is a strong female character in this story. 4.5/5⭐️

#AuthorAMonth @Soubhiville
#MarchMadnessReadathon @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES @Andrew65 ⬇️

Gissy #MarchMadnessBingoCard (published before I born) -Bingo with this book (in this line) @Andrew65

#ISpyBibgo March (half of a face-on the back of this edition) @Andrew65

March #BookSpinBingo #3 @TheAromaOfBooks
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BkClubCare Yay! A classic 11mo
Gissy @BkClubCare So good and I love that edition😍 11mo
TheAromaofBooks I always say that I love Steinbeck's writing but not his stories 😂 It's SO sad but the writing is so powerful and evocative! 11mo
DieAReader Stacked!📚 Great job!🥳 11mo
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JuliaTheBookNerd
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A title #WithAFruit 🍇 #TemptingTitles ☔️🌸💜

#BookNerd 🤓📚💙

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 🤩 12mo
Eggs Well done 👍🏼 🍇 💜 12mo
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gossamerchild
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I went into this book with absolutely no expectations of enjoying it. I'm truly glad I was surprised. This was beautiful and heartbreaking and depressingly relevant even today. Granted, it's dated and he uses language that isn't appropriate anymore, but still. So so good. I'm glad I read this for #authoramonth

@soubhiville

BethM This was one of the few I didn‘t mind in high school. 12mo
gossamerchild @BethM I'm still surprised this wasn't one that I had to read in school ever. Somehow I missed out. 12mo
Kangaj1 Yay! This was my favorite from high school (read it on my own), and I have been wondering if it holds up as still good. Hope to still reread it this year. 12mo
gossamerchild @Kangaj1 If you reread it, let me know. I'd love to chat about this one. 12mo
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staci.reads
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I can't believe I've waited this long to read this masterpiece of a book. The characters, the structure of alternating chapters, the incredibly vivid description - all of it makes this the profound piece of literature that has become the benchmark of an era. I'm so glad Steinbeck was March's #AuthorAMonth pick, making me pull this off my bookshelf. @Soubhiville

Soubhiville That‘s awesome! Great review. 🙂 12mo
UwannaPublishme Totally agree! 🙌🏻 12mo
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JacqMac
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Mehso-so

It‘s a good story, but I find Steinbeck‘s writing boring. The story itself feels repetitive. Because he tells me outright what it means. I don‘t like being told what to think. Make me think. Don‘t force my feelings. Let your words encourage them to form. Stimulate my thoughts. I do find myself most curious about this:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/forgotten-dust-bowl-novel-rivaled-gr...
#authoramonth @Soubhiville

RowReads1 😴 12mo
SamAnne Wow. Fascinating story. I‘d like to read her book too. 12mo
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BarkingMadRead
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Reading this for #authoramonth I got this copy in NOLA last year.

CoverToCoverGirl I really need to read this one.. someday.. so many books. 12mo
KathyWheeler I read it last year and loved it. 12mo
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Read4life
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Mehso-so

While I appreciated it more now than when I was younger, The Grapes of Wrath was just ok. I remember liking Of Mice and Men when we read it in school but after these two books this month I don‘t think I‘ll be rereading it.
#AuthorAMonth #BookSpinBingo #MarchMadness #BirthdayPixieReadathon

Soubhiville Nice! 12mo
TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 12mo
Andrew65 Well done on completing these. I read Of Mice and Men earlier this month and still deciding what else to read 👏👏👏 12mo
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 12mo
Lizpixie 🙌🎉 12mo
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Read4life
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Due to a damaged library copy of The Grapes of Wrath, I read The Pearl first. I‘ve now gotten a new library copy so I‘m ready to read it for #AuthorAMonth & #Bookopoly. It all worked out just fine.

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JacqMac
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I couldn‘t decide which Steinbeck to go with for #AuthorAMonth, so I polled my friends. This one was the most recommended. I did read The Pearl many years ago and I remember that I didn‘t like it so much. So much that I avoided Steinbeck ever after. Here‘s hoping this goes better.
@Soubhiville
#MarvelousMarch #MarchMadness
@Andrew65 @DieAReader @GHABI4ROSES

Andrew65 Trying to decide to read this or not this month. Will be interested to hear your thoughts. 12mo
DieAReader 💙💙 12mo
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Read4life
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Currently reading The Grapes of Wrath & I‘m planning on also reading The Pearl for #AuthorAMonth. I wasn‘t a Steinbeck fan back in school but wondering if that‘s changed.

TheBookHippie I‘m interested to see if you‘ve changed keep us posted. 12mo
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Read4life
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TheBookHippie ♥️👀👀 13mo
DieAReader 💜💜💜 13mo
Andrew65 Hope you‘re enjoying them 😍 13mo
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keithmalek
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There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our successes. The fertile Earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And the children dying of hunger must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates--died of malnutrition--because the food must rot if not sold at a profit.

Deblovestoread That first line.... 1y
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psalva
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📖 The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
🖋 Alan Ginsberg
🎞 A Great Day in Harlem
📺 The Great Pottery Throwdown
🎤 Steve Goodman, The Go-Gos
🎼 Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy by Queen,
The Girl from Ipanema (Joao Gilberto/Stan Getz) #manicmonday #letterg @CBee

CBee Thanks for playing! 1y
kspenmoll Steve goodman! 💙 1y
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Jari-chan
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Even though I'm not usually one for pancakes, from all the mentioned foods and dishes, this was the one that spoke to me the most. Pancake, maple syrup and bacon - a down to earth breakfast. I've also had some sugar and butter with it, since they had those too.

IuliaC That pancake 😍 2y
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Jari-chan
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Wow - what a book! This is one I won't forget about that easily. Even though set during the Great Depression, it's still worth reading nowadays. Especially now, since Steinbeck addresses so many topics that we are still facing: economic crisis, how we treat refugees, environmental disasters due to pollution...
Not a lot is happening in the story, but a lot is going on. Steinbeck digs up the roots of human failures and shows us the face of despair.

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SandySaga
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The house was dead, and the fields were dead; but this truck was the active thing, the living principle. The ancient Hudson, with bent and scarred radiator screen, with grease in dusty lobules at the worn edges of every moving part, with hub caps gone and caps of red dust in their places—this was the new hearth, the living center of the family; half passenger
car and half truck, high-sided and clumsy.

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Jari-chan
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Thank you for tagging me @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 😊 And as always I'm late... 😌

I do note and mark quotes in my books, but I often feel as if I'm not that excited about book quotes as all you other Littens... 😅 Here's one of my favourite quotes from one of the books I'm currently reading and loving.

#LittensWanttoKnow

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I just love them 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2y
UwannaPublishme Love Steinbeck! 🙌🏻 This is still on my TBR. 2y
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RobinGustafson
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Next up for my book group. I read this so many years ago, I‘m happy to revisit it!

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melissajayne
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Just my luck…two chunky books for August‘s #roll100

PuddleJumper 🤣 Good luck! 2y
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Tindara
Furore | John Steinbeck

Giunta alla fine di questo lungo viaggio di fame, morte e speranza, non posso fare a meno di pensare che è stato detto tutto. Dalla vita che scorre come un fiume, da un figlio costretto a scappare, da qualcuno che non ce l'ha fatta, dall'acqua che sale e dalla vita che vuole spegnersi ma che poi si trasforma in furore ... E finché c'è forza, c'è vita.

Grazie Steinbeck

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Addison_Reads
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East of Eden is still my favorite Steinbeck, but this book is such a heartbreaking story with absolutely beautiful writing.

Following the Joads on their journey for a better life, full of upsets at every turn, and yet somehow the family just keeps going, was one of the best literature experiences I've had in a while.

Thank you @TheAromaofBooks for choosing this book as my prize. I already know it will be well loved and read again and again.

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. It was the first Steinbeck I ever read and it absolutely gutted me. 2y
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wildwoodreads
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Last weekend I went wedding dress shopping with my cousin‘s fiancée and my mom. We ended up being a little early to her appointment and lucky for me there was a used book shop a couple of doors down. So of course I had to go in. And I found this gorgeous vintage edition of The Grapes of Wrath. I‘m super excited to add this to my vintage collection. ???

StaceGhost What a great find! 2y
Gissy Gorgeous edition!😍 2y
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BeeMagical I have this edition too and love it!!💕 2y
wanderinglynn Fantastic find! 2y
AmyG Beautiful! 2y
BookDadGirlDad I love the vintage books. I like to think how many hands have held it and enjoyed the same companionship we get with a good book. Finding little inscriptions is pure delight. 2y
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Andrew65
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A true classic! #Farm

#SavvyChoices

BookedBySunrise One of my favorites 2y
Andrew65 @MoBee Mine too. 2y
Leftcoastzen Love it. 2y
Eggs Perfect 🤩 2y
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Cazxxx
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Currently listening to this. Of mice and men is one of my favourite books of all time so I want to explore some of his other writing. Hope to read East of Eden next

5feet.of.fury East of Eden is one of my #roll100 picks for this month. Trying to read more classics, I feel like I had read Grapes of Wrath in school but I can‘t remember a thing of it. 2y
Cazxxx @5feet.of.fury I‘ve heard good things about East of Eden so I hope you enjoy it! There‘s a few classics I still want to read but not many. In the main they‘re not my favourite and can often bore me 2y
CuriousG East of Eden is hands down my favourite Steinbeck! 2y
Cazxxx @CuriousG Trying to find a second hand copy as my library don‘t seem to have it 😊 2y
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BarkingMadRead
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Our trip to NOLA is over and we are driving home, but I did manage to visit 3 bookstores, one each day. We totally forgot to look for the little free libraries! None jumped out at me, though. Overall, a very successful trip as far as books go! 🤣 we only missed one actual store, although we were told there was a 5th and it had moved locations!

melissanorr Crescent City books is great and so is Garden District Bookshop which I went to after a tour. Love NOLA! Hope you had a fantastic trip. 2y
BarkingMadRead @melissanorr we had a great time! I went to Garden District Bookshop on our last trip! We didn‘t get over that way this time though 2y
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Addison_Reads
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@wanderinglynn Your package arrived today. Thank you so much for sharing. 💚

@TheAromaofBooks look what arrived! I'm so happy you picked the Steinbeck. I can't wait to read it. His writing is so beautiful. 💜 Thank you again for #BookSpin each month.

wanderinglynn Yay! So glad it finally arrived 😀 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Glad it made its way to you eventually! 😂 2y
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TheKidUpstairs
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#OnThisDay in 1940, another classic book to screen adaptation,The Grapes of Wrath, (starring Henry Fonda as Tom Joad), premiered in New York City to near universal critical acclaim. In true Hollywood style, the Joads were given a hopeful ending in the film, in contrast to the stark final moments of the book. It is considered one of the greatest films ever made, and was one of the first received into the Library of Congress. #HistoryGetsLIT

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JessBookNerd
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Slowly going through my 100 epic reads poster from Been There Done That.

Yoricke_SouthAfrica This was one of the best books I've ever read. Have you read The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah? Almost a modern day version. I loved it as well. 2y
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Daisey
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I didn‘t enjoy this quite as much as East of Eden, but it‘s another great Steinbeck novel. It provides a clear and personal description of this part of American history. I would have appreciated some more details about the later experiences of the Joad family, but the uncertainty and abruptness of of their stories also seems so appropriate. #1001books

The #audiobook narration by Dylan Baker was fantastic.

#Reading1001 #TBRTakedown December 2021

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LisaLovesToRead
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Wow! I had never read this classic. It is amazing & a bit disheartening how relevant several themes still are. Steinbeck was undoubtedly wise beyond his time!

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breadnroses
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“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history & to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen & knit the repressed.”

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Texreader
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#wondrouswednesday Thanks @Catsandbooks for the tag!

1. The Monsens love reading, so fortunately date nights & sometimes the whole family (pre-pandemic) are at bookstores or visiting several in an afternoon. The family that book shops together stays together ☺️
2. Husband is a reading addict, plus son, daughter @arielmonsen & Mom @Doll8455 & niece @freeatlast1137 In-laws, too. Husband‘s brother was a librarian in Norway for some years
3. Tagged

Eggs Wow-a whole clan of readers! How wonderful! Thanks for joining in 👏🏻📚🌼 3y
Texreader @Eggs I‘m so fortunate 3y
Catsandbooks You're so lucky to have all those readers in your family!! 3y
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Yoricke_SouthAfrica
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Wow, what a journey this book has been. Initially it did take me a while to really get into the story, but once I got used to the language used, and the writing style, I simply could not get enough.
It is clear why this book has stood the test of time.
An absolute brilliant novel.

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Yoricke_SouthAfrica
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Diving back into the classics with this one 🤓

Freespirit This is on my list to read this year... hopefully! 3y
Yoricke_SouthAfrica @Freespirit I read Gone with the wind and To kill a Mockingbird last year. Absolutely loved both books. This is my next classic book. Hopefully I enjoy it as much as the previous two classics 🤞🌝 3y
Freespirit Look forward to your review👍🏼 3y
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TheEllieMo
The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 5 #bookstoread #TBRpile

Buchbeeg This has been on my list since I was 16! One of these days. . . 3y
TheEllieMo @Buchbeeg it‘s been on my list for quite some time too.... 3y
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