2026 Reads: The Grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck 📚
Somehow had never read this one before. Phew.
@cjhubbs I’m 2/5 through East Of Eden right now and it’s pretty rad.
@chrishubbs.com I read East of Eden years ago and loved it. Need to do a reread sometime soon.
@cjhubbs I think that was on our sophomore year reading list.
@cjhubbs It’s got the best first chapter of nearly anything I’ve read
@cjhubbs Phew, indeed. Read it twice in college and have needed many years off to come back to Steinbeck. Warming up on Travels With Charley and hitting East of Eden next.
@isaacgreene I’ve never read Charley but it’s on my side table just begging to be picked up.
@isaacgreene And re: Grapes of Wrath, the story is devastating, but on top of it Steinbeck’s writing… wow. His short interstitial chapter about the decay of an abandoned house could stand alone.
@cjhubbs Charley would be a great palette cleanser. Packed with beautiful observational writing, but without the devastation. Perfect paragraphs just flow through it.