seriously...has it been 4 months??

okay guilty. i am terribly uncommitted, oh God help me finish up this crazy school year. plus i've gotten distracted with books i need not mention now, but that i must also finish.

i think ill post up quotes from his books that i like instead of commenting on them. im realizing that Pastures of Heaven reads like a shorter version of EE, only with less interesting characters. sigh. i must finish. and when i do, ill post quotes.

Pastures of Heaven

i picked this book because i can't bring myself to get back into Grapes of Wrath. i promise to come back to it later.

for now, i picked Pastures of Heaven because it is so cold here in the bay area, and i long for green pastures. i want to move to brazil or hawaii or something.

OH! and i got super excited when i discovered this playwright (Octavio Solis)launched a STEINBECK PROJECT based on this novel back in 2007. How very cool. Here is a video of the project!!

http://www.calshakes.org/v4/media/video/07_video_pastures/07_video_pasturesofheaven.html

Here's a quote i liked in the back of the book(I always read the back first):

Director of the Swedish Academy said of [Steinbeck]:

There is in him a strain of grim humor which to some extent redeems his often cruel and crude motif. His sympathies always go out to the oppressed, the misfits, and the distressed; he likes to contrast the simple joy of life with the brutal and cynical craving for money.[...]

And this is why I love Steinbeck. His misfit characters are so real and so personal. It's as if he can relate to anyone when he writes. Okay so back to reading!

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