A great reading duo. 📕+📕
A great reading duo. 📕+📕
30 Book Recommendations in 30 Days — Day 14 “East of Eden,” by John Steinbeck. From the Bible: And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in
the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
(They‘re called classics for a reason, folks.). Good, no, great stuff. The movie‘s good, but it only tells half the story. The book is always better.
Full of life, and hardships.
Hey, guys. Do you know if it's possible to read comic books on kindle?
Okay that's it, I am done. I tried. DNF at 27%. Page 167 is ENTIRELY about topsoil. 🤦♀️ I have no energy left for this level of tediousness.
Love this quote though. And this is from a section discussing racism, which I thought was very well done.
6 months later.... 🤦♀️ Let me try this again. 😂 It's very...tedious. I seriously considered DNF'ing for awhile since I couldn't even bring up the desire to pick it back up in months, but I thought I'd give it ONE more shot before giving up the ghost.
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost-good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies any more, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.
https://youtu.be/U5vLDaig5ts
#shortyseptember
#kenyanreadathon
Intro
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial by Gina Starblanket and Dallas Hunt
And This Is How to Stay Alive by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
The Lost Garden by Helen Humphreys
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
East of Eden
Janet Evanovich
The Exorcist
The Eagles
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
#ManicMonday @CBee
#ManicMonday @Allylu @CBee
I almost forgot what day it is😂
📕 East of Eden
✍🏻 Louise Erdrich
🍿Elf
🎤 Elton John
🎵 Electric Avenue ~ https://youtu.be/vtPk5IUbdH0
Also, this is the most exciting thing that's happened in this book for a while. 🤷 I'm on page 120 (after 2 months) and is it possible to be any more long-winded??
#AlphabetGame Letter E
This was one of those books I could not put down, loved every page (and there are many) and didn‘t want it to be over. Kind of the perfect book 🤷🏻♀️❤️
The tagged book. One of my most favorites.
#alphabetgame Letter E @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#Alphabetgame #LetterE @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
East of Eden is another chunkster I loved.
Honourable mentions:
The Empty Throne, by Bernard Cornwell
Extreme Makeover, by Dan Wells
#AlphabetGame #letterE @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
The tagged book is a classic and considered a masterpiece for a reason. It was a great read, I liked reading the relationships among the characters, their struggles, and the portrayal of humanity shown.
Tagging anyone who wants to play along.
Steinbeck status: on page 28 of 600. 😆 (I'll be reading this one slowly; it's not one to be rushed. I feel like I need to chew each sentence, to fully absorb it. And that's a good feeling for me right now. 😊) I'm also highlighting passages like crazy! This is a great example of how descriptive the book is. 🌼♥️
New book and a view for my lunchtime break today. 😍
This book is just over #600pages and is one I hope to read eventually. Though I haven‘t had much luck with his books to date…
I have a picture of this bust on Cannery Row from 1993, but I‘m too lazy to dig out my old camera chip and upload it to the laptop. This photo is courtesy of the Library of Congress website.
#bookmoods
Working on a chapter a day. Coffee, Deck views, happiness.
A rare occurrence for me, but I am cutting my loses and bailing on this one. I‘m sure it pays off but I can‘t get through the copious rambling dialogue and the outright offensive descriptions of things. It has taken me 2 weeks to not get 200 pages in and I CANNOT fathom reading 400 more. I wanted to finish it because it‘s a classic, but who cares? Maybe I‘ll revisit when there aren‘t so many glorious tomes watching me suffer from the TBR shelf 🪦
Sitting outside with my multiple drinks and multiple books for the multiple facets of my personality 👯♀️
I went to dinner and to see The Batman and then got home and was going to start reading this, but I really just took this picture and been scrolling 📱📵📖
My latest read in my new bookcase! I‘ve been meaning to read this for decade, finally got it done! Such an expansive, complex and American book, I didn‘t love it but I appreciated it and the place it holds in our history and literary culture. The characters are iconic, the writing exceptional and now I want to watch the classic movie with James Dean. #BookspinBingo #Bookspin @TheAromaofBooks #20in4 @Andrew65 #MountTBR
#currentlisten #BFC21 Trying to finish this 25 hour #audiobook before the end of the year. Halfway there, will take a lot of walking! #chunkster
A great novel which speaks on the battle between good and evil that we, as humans, are each are entangled in. Highly recommend.
I am finally reading East of Eden which I have meant to do for many years. No time like the present, especially during Banned Books Week! #bannedbook
Despite being a Steinbeck fan, I have never read East of Eden. Starting a buddy read with my neighbor.