I write hopeful, character-based fantasy strongly routed in the natural world. I live in Nashville with my husband, dog, and two doves. Sometimes I teach college composition.

I'm a DND player, kayaker, knitter, and wannabe homesteader. I was an English Major and have an MFA in fiction, so I have an eclectic taste in books. I love #BrandonSanderson, #LOTR, and #StarWars, but also #WendellBerry, #JohnSteinbeck, and #MarilynneRobinson

I'm here to talk books and occasionally share reviews.

Il prossimo autunno lo passiamo colmando delle grosse lacune.
#CormacMcCarthy #johnsteinbeck #charlesdickens

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
#johnsteinbeck
#literature #LitStudies

@smeg

I don't understand why The Grapes of Wrath and John Steinbeck are so beloved in the States, when they seem to pay no attention to the warnings within his book.

#Steinbeck #JohnSteinbeck #TheGrapesOfWrath #GrapesOfWrath

Post #136 of my #bookcovers and #firstsentences homage on #Instagram is my secondhand copy of the 1946 #BantamBooks edition of #JohnSteinbeck's #TheGrapesOfWrath.

I read this book during my classics catch-up phase in my late twenties, and it's one of my all-time favourites. However, Steinbeck seemed more sympathetic to the plight of the drought and debt-stricken Oakies forced from their lands than the Native Americans dispossessed before them. And I found his ending confusing!

But hey, it's still a classic, has a great cover, and a fine scene-setting opening paragraph:

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth. The plows crossed and recrossed the rivulet marks. The last rains lifted the corn quickly and scattered weed colonies and grass along the sides of the roads so that the gray country and the dark red country began to disappear under a green cover. In the last part of May the sky grew pale and the clouds that had hung in high puffs for so long in the spring were dissipated. The sun flared down on the growing corn day after day until a line of brown spread along the edge of each green bayonet. The clouds appeared, and went away, and in a while they did not try any more. The weeds grew darker green to protect themselves, and they did not spread any more. The surface of the earth crusted, a thin hard crust, and as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale, pink in the red country and white in the gray country.

Link to the post on #Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj6X5KNlkS8/

What #Books are you #Reading again?

Like a pair of old slippers, or an episode of #TheWaltons on re-runs, this classic just gives me warm and fuzzies!

#JohnSteinbeck
#TravelsWithCharley
#Rocinante

Book review…
A short piece, more an appreciation than a review of John Steinbeck’s literary classic, Travels With Charlie.

Steinbeck is best known for his novelistic portrayal of the environmental refugees fleeing America’s dustbowl of the 1930s and their struggle to find a new start in California. That was Grapes of Wrath. The book is an example of how fiction can reveal truths about a society and a time that people live in.

Travels With Charlie is different. It is a travel story, a road story, a journey through a different land. This is a good read. Pour a wine, put your feet up, open the book and journey with Steinbeck along the byways of America.

#books #reviews #JohnSteinbeck #TravelsWithCharlie #literature #travel #roadtrips #vanlife

https://medium.com/pacificedge/on-the-road-with-charlie-2b9ee6d9ac2e?source=friends_link&sk=d3846d1249b24c6089623610d6dbc7cc

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 shortcuts to love
#JohnSteinbeck

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“He's got a little apartment. Spanish type. And he’s going to buy me the latest model self-timing electric stove. All you do is set it and when the steak’s done it plays “Tenderly.””
Jayne Mansfield in The Wayward Bus
#thewaywardbus #jaynemansfield #johnsteinbeck #victorvicas #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

People and books that helped form who I am today:

#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#RobertA.Heinlein
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy

@seanjcostello

I wonder if #JohnSteinbeck was the progenitor of the classic, "The dog ate my homework" legends of educational mythology.

#writinglife #writing

1937 first edition of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men #JohnSteinbeck #bookcover

“The poor little fellow may have been acting critically.” John Steinbeck, born #OTD in 1902, confesses to his editor that his dog (an Irish setter called Toby) has shredded his only draft of Of Mice and Men #JohnSteinbeck #writing #rewriting #DogsOfMastodon

John Steinbeck born this day in 1902.
#JohnSteinbeck

@mariapopova ⬆️

I believe #JohnSteinbeck 's "evil thing" cannot die, because it has never been 'alive'.

A proposed #DeplorableGene , which hypothetically could account for most of the 'evil' that has ever been in the world, is just #DNA 🧬.

And thanks to #NobelPrize -winning #CRISPR #chemistry, it can be 'edited'!

Literarischer #27Februar

„Ich vermute, dass es nie genug Bücher geben wird.“

#JohnSteinbeck Geburt 1902

Sunday read: something a little different. 'The Red Pony,' both my favourite pony book & favourite Steinbeck story.

'[Jody] put his hand out toward the pony. Its gray nose came close, sniffing loudly, and then the lips drew back and the strong teeth closed on Jody's fingers. The pony shook its head up and down and seemed to laugh with amusement. Jody regarded his bruised fingers. "Well," he said with pride--"Well, I guess he can bite all right."'

#books #reading #JohnSteinbeck #bookstodon

Useless Quote for 18 Feb:

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth …"

~ John Steinbeck (1951)

#UselessQuote #JohnSteinbeck

[BILAN]

Un challenge #LesClassiquesCestFantastique consacré ce mois-ci à #JohnSteinbeck et une vingtaine de chroniques participatives balayant la quasi-totalité de l'œuvre de l'auteur. Merci encore Moka et Fanny ⤵️

https://pagesversicolores.wordpress.com/2023/02/06/jamais-sans-mon-steinbeck/

It took awhile and I took a couple of breaks for some lighter fare adding the way, but I just finished East of Eden. Well worth the time.
#bookstodon
#johnsteinbeck
#eastofeden