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BarkingMadRead
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Bookwormjillk Whenever they have conversations like that I think of Fival Goes West “There are no cats in America and the streets are made of cheese.” Sad chapter but I‘m glad they teamed up with the other family. That seems smart. 16h
BarkingMadRead @bookwormjillk it‘s a genius plan, i hope it works out 16h
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ElizaMarie Glad you highlighted that quote. It spoke to me too ;) 16h
SamAnne Lord this chapter. 13h
lil1inblue @Bookwormjillk I loved the kindness and community spirit with the other family so much. It made the chapter easier to process. 6h
lil1inblue You are on point with the quotes you're picking. It's always something I highlighted, too. #greatminds 😘🤌🏻 6h
lauraisntwilder The dog and Grampa in the same chapter and it's only their first day on the road. Ouch. 6h
Bklover Well, that was awful. Poor dog. Poor Granpa. Oh, and they make me nervous every time they talk about their orange trees and little white house they‘re planning on. This doesn‘t seem like a HEA book, at least so far! 4h
BarbaraJean This quote stood out to me, too—and the next part: “If I go ahead on all of ‘em, it‘s too much.” Wise words from Ma. Also: I was all worried about the turtle and now this. 👴🏻🐶😭 36m
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Ruthiella
Untitled | Unknown
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#ChristmasCrimeChallenge

I‘m a little late for my own challenge! 😂 I‘ve settled on my pile of possibilities. Super pleased that some work for other prompts.

1. “Unnatural Causes“
2. “A Fatal Grace” #OhCanada
3. “Crime at Black Dudley” #HashtagBrigade
4. “The Mystery of the Yellow Room”
5. “Poirot‘s Early Cases”
6. “Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead” #Roll100
7. “Six Wakes”
8. “Follow Her Home”.
9. “The Quincunx” #10beforetheend

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BarkingMadRead
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Bookwormjillk Good morning! Steinbeck had it in for those used car dealers and mechanics. 2d
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ElizaMarie At the dealership now getting my tires changed :) 2d
lil1inblue I'm slightly annoyed that the pattern of one #wrathsnack and then one Joad chapter is ruined. 😂 I appreciated the second to last paragraph in this chapter... We needed some #goodpeopletoo! 2d
BarkingMadRead @lil1inblue it definitely felt weird, it should be 1 and 1 and nothing else 🤣 2d
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BarkingMadRead
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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. 2d
BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk that‘s crazy! 2d
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Bklover Love the photo!!😂😂 2d
Crinoline_Laphroaig I think I seen that house out in western Oklahoma where my grandparents lived. 2d
lil1inblue I feel bad for the cats. 😿😹 2d
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BarbaraJean
Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck
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“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?! 😳😂
#HashtagBrigade

BarkingMadRead 🤣🤣🤣 3d
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BarkingMadRead
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SamAnne So many good passages in this chapter! 4d
Bookwormjillk There were a lot of great passages. The highlight function on my kindle is working overtime. 3d
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willaful I'm not sure I can keep reading, I'm so stressed out already. 3d
KAO So good. I‘m grateful to be able to take my time with these passages. 3d
Bklover I love the quote you posted!! 3d
ElizaMarie Gramps is gonna be sooo mad!!!! 😡 3d
lil1inblue What a great passage. I'm worried about Muley. 3d
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BarkingMadRead
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Bklover “How will we know it‘s us without our past?” 🥺 5d
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.)
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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. 4d
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. 4d
lil1inblue @Bklover That quote... 😭 4d
lil1inblue I'm glad this is a buddy read, because I couldn't handle this book alone. 4d
Bklover @lil1inblue Me too! I need the humor in this group just so I can read this stuff! 4d
Bklover @willaful 🩷🩷 4d
Bookwormjillk Finally caught up. This was a rough chapter. 4d
SamAnne Forgot exactly how rough this novel could be!!! 4d
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kspenmoll
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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! 🧡🍁♥️ 5d
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BarkingMadRead
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rubyslippersreads Charley Grapewin, who played Grandpa, was also Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz. 6d
BarkingMadRead @rubyslippersreads that‘s so cool! 6d
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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! 6d
willaful @Bklover yeah, kind of fascinated by trying to diagnose him. What a strange story. 6d
willaful Anyone notice how much they call things “her“? We still do it a bit in English but not nearly so often. 5d
dabbe @rubyslippersreads He was! Thanks for that tidbit! 😍 5d
ElizaMarie Love how the daddy was so excited to trick his wife. The playfulness and joy of seeing Tom was so adorable. 4d
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BarkingMadRead
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Bookwormjillk Some things never change indeed. 7d
TheAromaofBooks I was honestly laughing, like apparently slimy used car salesmen appeared out of thin air as soon as used cars existed 😂 7d
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ElizaMarie I hate this! How true it is to swindle and cheat people. 7d
Crinoline_Laphroaig So what do we call these chapters that don't follow Tom Jobe but give overview of the world of the story? 7d
BarkingMadRead @Crinoline_Laphroaig that‘s a good question! We definitely need a hashtag for it! 7d
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!
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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
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BarkingMadRead @dabbe omg I love these! Especially #wrathsnack 🤣 6d
dabbe @BarkingMadRead Snack as in “gotta have more knowledge!“ 🤣 6d
lil1inblue @TheAromaofBooks I was laughing a bit, myself. 😅 6d
lil1inblue @dabbe @BarkingMadRead I'm obsessed with #wrathsnack 😘🤌🏻 Also a big fan of #grapeless 🤣 6d
dabbe @lil1inblue 🤣😘🤣 6d
Bklover I‘m not sure what I was expecting, but a used car salesman wasn‘t it! #wrathsnack 6d
BarbaraJean I just caught up and had been puzzling over #wrathsnack until I came back to the comments here 😂😂 @dabbe That hashtag is 💯 (edited) 2d
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