Book Blog – Page 13

East of Eden

December 19, 2016

Wow. This book was spectacular. I’ve been avoiding writing a review for a while, because I don’t really know what to say. That happens to me often when books are so expansive. This one covered literally decades, with two different families, and at least a few generations of each. It was… well, yeah. Expansive. I’m going to focus on characters, since the story really is character-driven. I loved Sam Hamilton. He was the epitome of good, and I loved him for that. I ...

Quotes, Thoughts

The half-wit

December 7, 2016

“At length a bumbling hairy half-wit was brought in for questioning. He was a fine candidate for hanging because not only did he have no alibis, he could not remember what he had done at anytime in his life. His feeble mind sensed that these questioners wanted something of him and, being a friendly creature, he tried to give it to them. When a baited and set question was offered to him, he walked happily into the trap and was glad when the constable looked happy. He tried manfully to ...

Thoughts

East of Eden, John Steinbeck

November 30, 2016

I started East of Eden a few days ago. I keep hearing what a beautiful book it is, and so far, only a handful of pages in, I have to agree.

Quotes

“The baby was drunk

November 30, 2016

for two days and a half. Whatever may have happened in his developing brain, it proved beneficial to his metabolism: from that two and a half days he gained an iron health. And when at the end of three days his father finally went out and bought a goat, Adam drank the milk greedily, vomited, drank more, and was on his way. His father did not find the reaction alarming, since he was doing the same thing.”