Welcome to Litsy!

Ebook on sale in time for next month‘s #authoramonth!

Day 27: disability in books. #riotgrams #amreading #bookworm #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookish #igreads #instabooks #booknerdigans #author #bookblogger #tsundoku #litsy #writeropolis #greatreads #readmorebooks #raconteuse #coolgirlsread

Resuming Tortilla Flats 1,700 miles to the SW from where I started it. Boy, Steinbeck sure likes to pepper his novels with knuckleheads!

Bringing this beauty to AZ with me this weekend.

Some nice finds at the used bookstore. The Steinbeck collection is an original 1953 edition. I love it. Plus, in its pages I found this poem, written in 1962! I wonder if the poem‘s author is still out there somewhere?

The reading and listening of It really slowed me down. I'm not including the Steinbeck shorts because I'm waiting to finish The Pearl (I have an all in one edition.) I'm hoping I can finish a manga and The Pearl tonight so I'll have 2 more for August.

Now, that's what I call one well-read book! I hope everyone enjoyed our #SteinbeckShortsReadAlong. I sure did! Thanks to everyone who participated. It was fun reading all the thoughtful comments about these timeless novels.

#steinbeckshortsreadalong @suvata

I feel like this is the week I'm going to get behind. I knew it was going to happen some time. Still, I look forward to the questions and discussion.

And only 216 on my to-read list. 🤓

I'm so effing tired of dead animals. This and Red Pony have really tried my patience.

#steinbeckshortsreadalong @suvata

OT crankiness: I'm also effing tired on deckle edges. They can rot in hell.

What a hellacious week. I only get three planning periods a week and I lost one of them this week. Of course it was on the day we had back to school night. I'm not leaving the house this weekend. I'm just going to spend quality time with the #littens and these guys.

I joined this group a bit late, but I finished my first story this week. Please feel free to jump in with any of the stories that interest you. I'll try to loop back and catch the two I missed earlier this month. Thanks for organizing this @suvata

#SteinbeckShortsReadAlong

My book finally came in from the library, so hopefully I'll be able to join in later this week as I finish up some other reads and jump in on book 2!
#SteinbeckShortsReadAlong.

Some of these I read in high school, some I've never read, so it should be interesting!

"Her mother, that ancient, dried, toothless one, relict of a past generation, was nearly fifty."

"ancient" and "nearly fifty" in the same sentence ????

#steinbeckshortsreadalong

Being a Virgo I am a perfectionist and, okay, maybe a little OCD. I'm wondering if Penguin ? does this on purpose just to tick people like me off? If so, "Well done, Penguin."

Hint: Compare the book order - cover vs. pages

#SteinbeckShortsReadAlong

@suvata I found it! Ready to go! #Steinbeckshortsreadalong

Sharing a picture of the edges for @BBL4nkensh1p

@suvata #steinbeckshortsreadalong
"(Pilon, by the way, if something thrown in when a trade is conducted--a boot)"

I like reading because I learn new words. ?

#steinbeckshortsreadalong @suvata

I think this read along is a perfect bit of kismet. East of Eden was not working for me right now, but I think these short novels will ease me into the longer work. I might do The Grapes of Wrath after this. That way I'm reading him more or less chronologically.

@suvata #steinbeckshortsreadalong
Got my book and I got an annoyed cat. I'm ready!

#riotgrams, #welllovedreads, #faulkner, #mockingbird, #dickens, #steinbeck

Happy birthday to one of my first author loves - John Steinbeck🎉

#BookMail #BookishMail
Got this one because @KennethTolesJr told me that I have to read Of Mice and Men. And I also couldn't help but to get this mischievous little guy. #FantasticBeasts

I'm a big fan of the Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, and their #deckleedges make them more of a joy to peruse. #feistyfeb #deckleedge

Funny how an author I was forced to read in school has become one I actively seek out as an adult. one day, I should re-read The Grapes of Wrath. I suspect I'll like it better without the spectre of an exam or critical paper at the end.