Grapes of Wrath 75th Anniversary Edition | 
Ch 13: #devastatingchapter #thisquotespoketome #anyway #travelbegins #granmasleepingintheouthouse 🤣 #poorpup #winfieldtookithard #sweetboy #movingon #stoppingforthenight #meetthewilsons #ripgramps #pooroldguy #roadsidefuneral #decisionsmade #sairyissick #poorsairy #somuchheartbreak #staytuned #wrathsnacktomorrow #hashtagbrigade
I went into a rabbit hole on Hudson Super-Sixes, the car that the Joads convert. It was an early version, probably a 1926, pictured here intact and not turned into a truck! They used a 1926 in the movie. #hashtagebrigade @BarkingMadRead
Ch 12: #wrathsnack #backtoback #route66 #moreswindlers #goodpeopletoo #suchhardship #staytuned #joadstomorrow #hashtagbrigade
“Once, after a meeting, while she was still speaking in tongues, she fired both barrels of a shotgun at her husband, ripping one of his buttocks nearly off, and after that he admired her and did not try to torture her as children torture bugs.”
Wait, WHAT?! 😳😂
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Ch 10: #preppingtoleave #sellingofftheteam #poorpigs #loadingthetruck #drugginggramps #asonedoes #peaceoutmuley #feedthosedogs #willtombreakparole #staytuned #afterawrathsnack #hashtagbrigade
Ch 9: #wrathsnack #rubberplant #devastating #leavingitallbehind #howdoyouevenchoose #theyhadsolittle #backtothejoadstomorrow #staytuned #hashtagbrigade
Ch 8: #homewiththefamily #whoallaskifhebrokeout #surprisemama #grampsisapieceofwork #catchuponthegossip #timetoselleverythingandgo #buttomcantgo #nowwhat 🤷🏻♀️ #alwantstobejustliketom #exceptfortheparole 🤣 #boys 🙄 #staytuned #hashtagbrigade
Ch 7: #goodusedcars #cheatsandliars #somethingsneverchange #staytuned #palatecleanser #niceeasychapter #hashtagbrigade
Train delays equal more reading time I guess.
Ch 6: #thehouseisempty #poortom #muleyshowsupwithalllllthenews #thefamilyisatuncleohns #butfirst #dinnerandarompinthecorn #hidingfromthelaw #campingout #offtojohnstomorrow #staytuned #andbewarethebabyeatingpigs #hashtagbrigade
Ch 5: #devastatingchapter #somuchsadness #somuchunfairness #morejoadsinthenextchapter #staytuned #hashtagbrigade
We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't like a man.
Yes, but the bank is only made of men.
No, you're wrong there--quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it.
Ch 4: #jimcasy #tomtakestheturtle #iwasworriedhewasgonnamakesoup #nope #agiftforhissibs #awwww #meetsjimcasyontheroad #interestingdude #losthissperit #lotsoffuninthegrassthough #philosophicaldiscussion #thenbackontheroad #thepigstorythough 🐷 #thehouseisempty #poortom #staytuned #hashtagbrigade
Ch 3: #pleasetellmeimnottheonlyonestressingoveraturtle #somuchbeautifulwriting #shortchapter #staytunedfortherealstory #hashtagbrigade
Ch 2: #tomjoad #hitchhiking #headedhomefromtheslammer #homicide #maybedontbragmyguy #poortruckdriver 🤣 #awkard #stilllovingthebeautifulwriting #driverisntoptomisticaboutjoadsfarm #staytuned #hashtagbrigade
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Ok #hashtagbrigade here is November‘s book! If you want to join us for a chapter a day, drop a comment below. But remember, my hashtags are often ridiculous and always chapter spoilers, so read the chapter before you read my post each day! Everyone is welcome! I have two groups of tags, one for the individual book, and one for monthly reminder list, so be sure to let me know if you need to be on one of my lists!
Ok #hashtagbrigade here is November‘s book! If you want to join us for a chapter a day, drop a comment below. But remember, my hashtags are often ridiculous and always chapter spoilers, so read the chapter before you read my post each day! Everyone is welcome! I have two groups of tags, one for the individual book, and one for monthly reminder list, so be sure to let me know if you need to be on one of my lists!
so-soNot my fave Steinbeck but I learned a lot and it was good.
Happy Tuesday! Here are today's #Two4Tuesday questions. Thanks to everyone who played last week. Everyone is welcome to play.
My answers:
📘 Yes. There is power in the written word.
📘 Tagged. One of the best books that captures the Great Depression.
Play? @Eggs @dabbe @peaKnit @Susanita @julesG @TheBookHippie @Cupcake12 @DebinHawaii @Texreader @lil1inblue @AnnCrystal @Kshakal
pick4/5
My book club was reading The Four Winds, which I had already read, so instead I picked up The Grapes of Wrath.
I honestly prefer the latter which offers more characters, more depths, more complexity. It's a very interesting read about a very difficult time. Well-written, realistic.
bailedI'm so disappointed to bail on my #Bookedintime selection. I adore the landscape and nature descriptions. However, it does feel overly preachy, and I'm just not in the right mindset atm to persevere. I will pick it up to try again, at some point. I do feel the fault is mine, not the book.
@Cuilin @dabbe
pickWe follow the displaced Joad family as they make the trek west in search of work and a new home during the Great Depression. Published in 1939, the book feels eerily familiar today - roiling social divisions, vast gaps in wealth/opportunity between rich and poor, the anger hurled at the migrants. Heartbreaking, yes. But the Joads are rendered with such dignity and tenderness that you want to see them through all the hardships you know are coming.
pickWhat an amazing and devastating book. It took me a while to get into but from halfway through, it just built and built.
There are so many similarities between these times and today. Corporate greed and hate of others continue. We forget everyone is human, living and/or struggling with their own lives.
What a wonderful read. What wonderful strength and love among those with so little. I wish everyone read and reflected on this book.
It's 50 degrees and windy, but you wouldn't know it. This reading spot is sooo cozy 🤍
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@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! 🤩🤩🤩
I found a great playlist to listen to while I read Steinbeck 🎶
I've been on a classics kick lately 😍
pickHALLELUJAH! 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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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.
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@CrowCAH @BarbaraBB @Texreader
pickThis was heartbreaking. I love Steinbeck I honestly believe he is the writer who writes the most beautifully.
pickI 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 ?).
#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…” 😍
pickIt‘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.
pickFlippin 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.
pickI 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.
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
pickOne 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
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pickI 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
pickI 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
so-soIt‘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
so-soWhile 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.
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