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\ud83d\udcda Finished reading East of Eden<\/a><\/em> by John Steinbeck. I hadn\u2019t read this since I was a teenager. Coming back to it as an adult, with children of my own, the characters and story are much more relatable. I found myself highlighting many passages of wonderful Steinbeck prose.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udcda Finished reading East of Eden by John Steinbeck. I hadn\u2019t read this since I was a teenager. Coming back to it as an adult, with children of my own, the characters and story are much more relatable. I found myself highlighting many passages of wonderful Steinbeck prose.<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6506,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2020\/11\/17\/with-steinbeck-in-the-sea-of-cortez-by-audry-lynch\/","url_meta":{"origin":8459,"position":0},"title":"\ud83d\udcda With Steinbeck in the Sea of Cortez by Audry Lynch","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"17 November 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"A really lovely supplement to the main Sea of Cortez book. 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A simple, beautiful and tragic tale whose characters are immediately knowable. 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It was interesting to revisit Cannery Row\u2019s characters once again, but this novel misses a spark that its predecessor has. 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A collection of his correspondent dispatches from World War II, with a reflective introduction written much later. 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