East of Eden | 
I have begun reading for the #EoE #buddyread, and so far, I‘m loving what I‘m reading 👌
My edition is a Danish translation from 1984, and I got it from one of my mom‘s friends 4-5 years ago, after which I read it for the first time, and fell in love with this sweeping saga. I‘m so happy for a reason to revisit it!
The house was quiet, perfect for starting our #EoE read along. Initially when I dug out my copy, I was rather apprehensive because it has 601 pages. #fearofchunksters Just over 43 pages, I‘m glad to report it‘s absorbing! Hope to finish part one today, thanks for organising @Cinfhen
Bookish fact about me: I have to many, to heavy books on to weak shelves. My solution is to put them horizontally, as some kind of support for upper shelf ... and if I want to read the book from those piles, I just go to the library ... #EoE #BuddyRead
Hey #EoE buddy readers! As you read Part One I‘m throwing out an obvious thought/question... the significance of the book‘s title?! Are you familiar with the story of Adam & Eve/ Original Sin/ Cain & Abel from The Book of Genesis ??! Are you finding parallels??? Can‘t wait to discuss this and so much more on Friday, June 21
Anyone can still join in!!! Reading and discussing Part One on Friday 6/21
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Oh hello, dearest book 🤗 It‘s time to read you now for #EOE buddy-read😄
Another something I picked up at the library, not shown in my last post is a copy of the tagged book. I have never read it (I saw the movie years ago) & was tempted when I saw @Cinfhen doing the #EoE #buddyread & tried to get an e-book from the library, but there was a waiting list. I decided that if the library had a print copy in today, it was fate saying I should join in & there in the classics section it was! 🤗I'm going to give it a shot.
Finished Part I and intrigued by the motley crew of characters introduced thus far. Looking forward to next week's discussion! #EoE
I‘m so excited to have found this #buddyread starting! This book made an impact when I read it forever ago, and I keep moving it closer to the top for a re-read but then so many books get in the way. A #buddyread is just the ticket, thanks for organizing again @Cinfhen 🎉
I've always wanted to read this and I'm glad there's a Litsy group read to motivate me 🙂 Hoping to make quite a bit of time for this today. #EoE @Cinfhen
I know the “official” start of our #EoE buddyread begins tomorrow but i already devoured the first 128 pages. I‘ve taken lots of notes and can‘t wait to discuss next Friday ( 6/21) Now I need to decide if I‘m going to race ahead or stay on schedule 😬 Don‘t let the first 50 pages hold you back - I thought I was going to bail 😝
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Ive started #EoE and I can tell it‘s going to be like Jeffrey Archer‘s Kane & Abel and Shaw‘s Rich Man Poor Man. Two books I read decades ago and loved. My concentration is a little off, so I‘m having a bit of trouble tracking all these male characters. Looking forward to our first discussion of Part 1 next Friday/Saturday 6/21 ( depends on my frame of mind 😉) Feel free to share thoughts as you read!!!
I ❤️my #LitsyLove Pen Pals! 😘🙌🏻 Thank you dear bookish friends for making every day feel like Christmas: @bullbunny @WorldsOkayestStepMom @Moodyreader @laurenslibrary @LokiDokey @IndoorDame @tracey38 @CoffeeNBooks @MaGoose @TheBookHippie @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
I also ❤️ Steinbeck and I‘m thrilled about the #EOE #buddyread staring in 3 days. (Thx for hosting @Cinfhen !) So my #LitsyLove responses may be a little later than usual. 😆
Repost for @Cinfhen :
#EoE #buddyread starts this Saturday, June 15. We will read Part one and loosely discuss our initial thoughts on Friday, June 21. Feel free to post while reading and use hashtag #EoE. I‘ve tagged whomever showed interest. If you‘d like to join in let me know below. Feel free to share and repost ❤️
Non-readers will never understand the emotional destruction a book can take you through...
Pulled out my copy, ready for this #buddyread ! Looking forward to rereading my favorite Steinbeck #EoE
Successful visit to the library, I‘m ready!
Details for #BuddyRead are on @Cinfhen feed, if you want to join in #EoE
#EoE #buddyread starts this Saturday, June 15. We will read Part one and loosely discuss our initial thoughts on Friday, June 21. Feel free to post while reading and use hashtag #EoE. I‘ve tagged whomever showed interest. If you‘d like to join in let me know below. Feel free to share and repost ❤️
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I‘m afraid we‘re still suspicious of education and the arts. We‘ve just gotten more democratic in that we suspect the rich as well as the poor. 😔 #suspicion #quotsyjune19 @TK-421
pickIt was an absolutely beautiful book that talked about Cain and Abel, fate, inherited guilt. I think I need to sit and think about this some more. Maybe for the rest of my life
📖 I liked a quite a few, actually, but one was definitely East of Eden.
👚 I‘m wearing my black twenty one pilots shirt.
📺 I‘ve been watching Good Omens and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
🐉🧚🏼♀️I don‘t know that I have a favorite, but I‘ve always liked dragons and fairies.
#friyayintro @howjessreads
“We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way”
My dear goodness! The descriptions and depictions of women in 1952 were quite something! She sure wasn't pretty but boy could she keep a clean house! 😳
I'm kicking off my #20BooksofSummer (and the GR Group Reading With Style seasonal challenge) with the chunky EAST OF EDEN! I bought this beautiful Penguin Orange Collection edition years ago at the Penguin Shop in Toronto, but I heard only fantastic things about the audio narration. So I fired up my Audible again and will have ~27 hours of it to treat my ears. 🙂 (So far so good, it sounds like I'm watching an old movie)
#EoE #BuddyRead All are welcome to join in! Nothing too rigid, just a loose time frame June 15- July 14 to tackle this tome. I thought we could try to hit roughly 125 pages a week. Book is broken into 4 parts, so basically a week for each part. I‘m tagging those who initially showed interest ♥️Feel free to repost and tag/share 😊
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“And now that you don‘t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
Not sure if Ali loves Steinbeck or just wants to attack his sister‘s tail as it swooshes by. 😹
#eastside #amonthofsongs
The first book that came to mind with #EastSide #AMonthOfSongs
#BookMail #ChunkySummerRead #SmallPrint 🤪 who‘s joining me???? #InformalBuddyRead
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest‘— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest‘—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
Every time I read this book I cry. (Ps-where‘s the person who gave this one star on Goodreads? I just wanna talk...)
Beautiful Saturday mornings 🌞🌻
You must not expect to find that people understand what they do. #musings #eastofeden #steinbeck #thoughts
pickLoved it. I‘m a sucker for a large cast with entangled stories. In books with many characters, it‘s sometimes difficult to identify with each, but Steinbeck just gets straight to the essence of the person so that you immediately feel familiar with them. I appreciate that this book took the succinct Cain and Abel parable and expanded it into this messy retelling. I finally think I know what critics mean when they call this novel “ambitious.”
The characters of Abra and Lee both exceeded my expectations. The moment between them in the kitchen was touching. I didn‘t know I wanted it until it was happening!
“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. . .”
Steinbeck‘s short commentary chapters are profound. I‘ve been missing out on a good writer and great thinker!
“My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible.”
“He loved a celebration of the human soul. Such things were like a personal triumph to him.”
The extended Cain & Abel motif is a bit obvious, but I like the twist on the known story. It makes me nervous for what‘s to come. I hope Cal manages to choose a path different from Cain and Charles.
For me, this contextualization of the biblical story (in which the C&A characters are boys instead of men) really emphasized the unfairness in choice of God‘s/Cyrus‘s/Adam‘s favorite for me. The boys are just doing their best to be loved.
“There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.”
“No crime of commission was ever attributed to him, and his crimes of omission were only misdemeanors.”
I can live on a line like this for 2-3 weeks.
#Februaryquotes #indestructible
Happy birthday to John Steinbeck born this day in 1902.
🎉✏️ 🎂
East of Eden is my fave of his novels. Of Mice and Men was part of my high school curriculum and I loved that one too. Do you have a Steinbeck book that moved you?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001sxs
After our readalong ( 2 yrs ago!) i thought id share this really good episode of radio 4's open book programme devoted to the great man. Interesting comparison of his relevance today given the refugee issues. Anyway @ReadingEnvy @saresmoore thought you'd be interested and off course all those other steinbeck fans out there. If i find room this year maybe grapes of wrath is due a reread
pickThis is now my third book by Steinbeck, and I can absolutely see why he‘s so beloved - the man certainly knew how to write. I loved the characters in this, although I did find it took a while to get into, and it meandered a little too much, especially at the beginning. Lots of food for thought here. #aroundtheworldin52books
