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Grapes of Wrath 75th Anniversary Edition | John Steinbeck

Ch 12: #wrathsnack #backtoback #route66 #moreswindlers #goodpeopletoo #suchhardship #staytuned #joadstomorrow #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @cuilin @lil1inblue @bookwormjillk @samanne @barbarajean @willaful @lapreader @librarybelle @crinoline_laphroaig @eeclayton @thearomaofbooks @deelew @kao @elizamarie @bklover @lauraisntwilder now

Bookwormjillk Good morning! Steinbeck had it in for those used car dealers and mechanics. now

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Grapes of Wrath 75th Anniversary Edition | John Steinbeck

Ch 11: #wrathsnack #naturetakingover #shortshortchapter #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @cuilin @lil1inblue @bookwormjillk @samanne @barbarajean @willaful @lapreader @librarybelle @crinoline_laphroaig @eeclayton @thearomaofbooks @deelew @kao @elizamarie @bklover @lauraisntwilder 12h

Bookwormjillk So today I learned there are only supposed to be 30 chapters in this book but for some reason mine has 50 something. And that's why I am so behind all the time. I feel so relieved. I thought I was imagining having read each day's chapter 😂Anyway I'm caught up now. 12h

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk that‘s crazy! 12h

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Bklover Love the photo!!😂😂 11h

BarkingMadRead @Bklover #mygooglegameisstrong 11h

Crinoline_Laphroaig I think I seen that house out in western Oklahoma where my grandparents lived. 10h

lil1inblue I feel bad for the cats. 😿😹 10h

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BarbaraJean

Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck

“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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BarkingMadRead

Grapes of Wrath 75th Anniversary Edition | John Steinbeck

Ch 10: #preppingtoleave #sellingofftheteam #poorpigs #loadingthetruck #drugginggramps #asonedoes #peaceoutmuley #feedthosedogs #willtombreakparole #staytuned #afterawrathsnack #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @cuilin @lil1inblue @bookwormjillk @samanne @barbarajean @willaful @lapreader @librarybelle @crinoline_laphroaig @eeclayton @thearomaofbooks @deelew @kao @elizamarie @bklover @lauraisntwilder 2d

SamAnne So many good passages in this chapter! 2d

Bookwormjillk There were a lot of great passages. The highlight function on my kindle is working overtime. 2d

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willaful I'm not sure I can keep reading, I'm so stressed out already. 2d

KAO So good. I‘m grateful to be able to take my time with these passages. 2d

Bklover I love the quote you posted!! 2d

ElizaMarie Gramps is gonna be sooo mad!!!! 😡 1d

lil1inblue What a great passage. I'm worried about Muley. 20h

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BarkingMadRead

Grapes of Wrath 75th Anniversary Edition | John Steinbeck

Ch 9: #wrathsnack #rubberplant #devastating #leavingitallbehind #howdoyouevenchoose #theyhadsolittle #backtothejoadstomorrow #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @cuilin @lil1inblue @bookwormjillk @samanne @barbarajean @willaful @lapreader @librarybelle @crinoline_laphroaig @eeclayton @thearomaofbooks @deelew @kao @elizamarie @bklover @lauraisntwilder 3d

Bklover “How will we know it‘s us without our past?” 🥺 3d

willaful Another excruciating chapter. Steinbeck really paints a picture.

(It brought up some painful memories of my childhood, when we were very nomadic and I always had to leave stuff behind, and then there's now when I worry about whether we should be emigrating. Not the my life has been anything like this hard.) 3d

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ElizaMarie I felt so sad for the kiddos with having to leave their things. Every space counts and having to justify what would and would not make the cut matters. 2d

KAO This chapter reminded me of the estate sale that I stopped by this weekend. It struck me as so very sad to see all of these seemingly random items as well as apparently once treasured collectibles left behind. I had so many questions about who lived there and what circumstances brought about the need for this sale, but I didn‘t speak to anyone about it and left—with one little garden decoration ($4) ready to start a new life in my yard. 2d

lil1inblue @Bklover That quote... 😭 2d

lil1inblue I'm glad this is a buddy read, because I couldn't handle this book alone. 2d

Bklover @lil1inblue Me too! I need the humor in this group just so I can read this stuff! 2d

Bklover @willaful 🩷🩷 2d

Bookwormjillk Finally caught up. This was a rough chapter. 2d

SamAnne Forgot exactly how rough this novel could be!!! 2d

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kspenmoll

The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club: A Novel | Martha Hall Kelly

Library finds. I got a “pronto” book (tagged),which means I read it in one week…that‘s a challenge!

dabbe I just read Brideshead Revisited with the #hashtagbrigade and loved it! 🧡🍁♥️ 3d

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BarkingMadRead

Grapes of Wrath 75th Anniversary Edition | John Steinbeck

Ch 8: #homewiththefamily #whoallaskifhebrokeout #surprisemama #grampsisapieceofwork #catchuponthegossip #timetoselleverythingandgo #buttomcantgo #nowwhat 🤷🏻‍♀️ #alwantstobejustliketom #exceptfortheparole 🤣 #boys 🙄 #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @cuilin @lil1inblue @bookwormjillk @samanne @barbarajean @willaful @lapreader @librarybelle @crinoline_laphroaig @eeclayton @thearomaofbooks @deelew @kao @elizamarie @bklover @lauraisntwilder 4d

rubyslippersreads Charley Grapewin, who played Grandpa, was also Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz. 4d

BarkingMadRead @rubyslippersreads that‘s so cool! 4d

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Bklover Noah is such a sad character. And poor Uncle John, living with all that guilt. At least we have Grampa to lighten things up! 4d

willaful @Bklover yeah, kind of fascinated by trying to diagnose him. What a strange story. 4d

lil1inblue #grampacrackedmeup 4d

willaful Anyone notice how much they call things “her“? We still do it a bit in English but not nearly so often. 4d

dabbe @rubyslippersreads He was! Thanks for that tidbit! 😍 4d

ElizaMarie Love how the daddy was so excited to trick his wife. The playfulness and joy of seeing Tom was so adorable. 2d

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BarkingMadRead

Grapes of Wrath 75th Anniversary Edition | John Steinbeck

Ch 7: #goodusedcars #cheatsandliars #somethingsneverchange #staytuned #palatecleanser #niceeasychapter #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @cuilin @lil1inblue @bookwormjillk @samanne @barbarajean @willaful @lapreader @librarybelle @crinoline_laphroaig @eeclayton @thearomaofbooks @deelew @kao @elizamarie @bklover @lauraisntwilder 5d

Bookwormjillk Some things never change indeed. 5d

TheAromaofBooks I was honestly laughing, like apparently slimy used car salesmen appeared out of thin air as soon as used cars existed 😂 5d

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ElizaMarie I hate this! How true it is to swindle and cheat people. 5d

Crinoline_Laphroaig So what do we call these chapters that don't follow Tom Jobe but give overview of the world of the story? 5d

BarkingMadRead @Crinoline_Laphroaig that‘s a good question! We definitely need a hashtag for it! 5d

willaful @TheAromaofBooks LOL!

Spider Robinson has a story about people doing good in the world and the form they choose is to sell actually good used cars! 5d

dabbe @Crinoline_Laphroaig @BarkingMadRead Here's a few hashtag suggestions for the parts that don't contain the Joads but contain history:
#wrathsnack #grapeless #joadfree #dustbreak #dustdetour 5d

BarkingMadRead @dabbe omg I love these! Especially #wrathsnack 🤣 5d

dabbe @BarkingMadRead Snack as in “gotta have more knowledge!“ 🤣 4d

lil1inblue @TheAromaofBooks I was laughing a bit, myself. 😅 4d

lil1inblue @dabbe @BarkingMadRead I'm obsessed with #wrathsnack 😘🤌🏻 Also a big fan of #grapeless 🤣 4d

dabbe @lil1inblue 🤣😘🤣 4d

Bklover I‘m not sure what I was expecting, but a used car salesman wasn‘t it! #wrathsnack 4d

BarbaraJean I just caught up and had been puzzling over #wrathsnack until I came back to the comments here 😂😂 @dabbe That hashtag is 💯 (edited) 10h

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BarkingMadRead

Grapes of Wrath 75th Anniversary Edition | John Steinbeck

Ch 6: #thehouseisempty #poortom #muleyshowsupwithalllllthenews #thefamilyisatuncleohns #butfirst #dinnerandarompinthecorn #hidingfromthelaw #campingout #offtojohnstomorrow #staytuned #andbewarethebabyeatingpigs #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @cuilin @lil1inblue @bookwormjillk @samanne @barbarajean @willaful @lapreader @librarybelle @crinoline_laphroaig @eeclayton @thearomaofbooks @deelew @kao @elizamarie @bklover @lauraisntwilder 6d

lil1inblue #thatbabyeatingpig #imsorrywhatnow Also, I'm quite glad this is only a chapter a day. #sobleak 6d

willaful @lil1inblue seriously! 6d

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Crinoline_Laphroaig I was so glad the Turtle was safe! And then the poor rabbit. That was enough. I stopped reading and will start with tomorrow's chapter. 6d

ElizaMarie @lil1inblue me too!!!! I think I‘d be super bummed if I pushed through this one 5d

Bklover 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢👍 5d

lauraisntwilder Don't know what I did to deserve reading about that pig in this chapter and a scene with leeches in it in a different book on the same day. 😳 5d

Bklover 🐇🔥🍽️👎 5d

BarkingMadRead @lauraisntwilder are you reading both of those books with me? 😳 5d

lauraisntwilder @BarkingMadRead No! Definitely wasn't blaming you in any way. I'm reading The Ladies of Missalonghi. Did you read about leeches yesterday, too? My sympathies!

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BarkingMadRead @lauraisntwilder I‘m reading the Body, they made the movie Stand By Me based on the book, and there‘s a scene with leeches

The Body

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lauraisntwilder @BarkingMadRead That's in my TBR. I'll get to it one day. 5d

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BarkingMadRead

Grapes of Wrath 75th Anniversary Edition | John Steinbeck

Ch 5: #devastatingchapter #somuchsadness #somuchunfairness #morejoadsinthenextchapter #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @cuilin @lil1inblue @bookwormjillk @samanne @barbarajean @willaful @lapreader @librarybelle @crinoline_laphroaig @eeclayton @thearomaofbooks @deelew @kao @elizamarie @bklover @lauraisntwilder 7d

KAO This chapter makes me so sad. Such helplessness in the face of devastating loss. 7d

willaful This kind of infuriated me because it made me so aware of history rhyming. These books are full of accumulated wisdom and yet we keep doing the same things over and over. Reading it at this very moment in history really drives it home. 7d

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BarkingMadRead @willaful 💯💯 7d

SamAnne @willaful exactly. We continue to relive it. One of my clearest memories of high school is our amazing English teacher have us read this. Context: redneck timber town highschool mid-80s. All of us were “whew glad that doesn‘t happen anymore.” And then she showed us a documentary on the plight of orchard workers in CA in relatively current times. Have never forgotten. (edited) 7d

Bookwormjillk @willaful yup 7d

willaful @SamAnne I'm glad you had such a good teacher. 7d

BarbaraJean @willaful My thoughts exactly. All the bank stuff. All the faceless non-human/inhuman entities. All the shifting of blame. 😡 (edited) 7d

dabbe @willaful @SamAnne Same here! 🧡🍁💛 7d

lil1inblue @willaful 🎯🎯🎯 6d

lil1inblue @SamAnne What a powerful lesson. And what an amazing teacher. 💓 6d

SamAnne @willaful @dabbe @lil1inblue Raise a glass to Eleanor Dinkins. She terrified me at first. Then I loved her. And what a treat to get to know her when I was an adult. Even in my conservative red neck timber town, what freedom our teachers had to teach us! The 80s. Now I raise a glass to all the teachers out there doing the difficult work under difficult circumstances. I always thought it would get better, not worse. 6d

dabbe @SamAnne I always took it as a compliment when I student would tell me that I terrified them ... at first. And I always waited for the magic word “But“ ... music to my ears! Here's to you, Eleanor Dinkins! 🍸 6d

ElizaMarie This chapter gutted me. @davbe - I am sure you are one of those teachers people still talk about :) @SamAnne you are right back when we were in school I felt teachers were able to be so much more truthful now- it‘s walking on egg shells 6d

lil1inblue @SamAnne Here's to Eleanor Dinkins! 💓🍸💓 My Ms. Dinkins was Mr. Joe Locascio. Teachers are so amazing. 6d

lil1inblue @dabbe I think I would have loved having you as a teacher. I can see hints of it in the buddy reads you host. 💓💓💓 6d

dabbe @ElizaMarie In both positive and negative ways! I didn't anoint myself as #crabbyabbe for nothing! 🤣🤣🤣 6d

dabbe @lil1inblue You are too kind. I can sometimes come across as too teachery! 🤣😍🤣 6d

SamAnne @dabbe new adverb . Teachery! 5d

dabbe @SamAnne 🤪🤣😘 5d

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