Bleh

I'm sick. It kind of started on Monday, and I took most of yesterday as a sick day. I stuck it out today, though, as I am feeling better. Mostly stuffed up, with some sore throat and a little bit of coughing thrown in.

I finished Cannery Row a few days back. I guess I have a little Steinbeck thing going on. (I read The Grapes of Wrath earlier this year, which apparently I did not mention. hrm.) I enjoyed it quite a bit. Even though it is short, Steinbeck paints the images of the place and its characters so well. Suggestions for further reading, preferably available at the local library?

April 30, 2003 05:22 PM

Comments (11)

04/30: kelley said:

i just typed "hogmail.com" by mistake.
read "love in the time of cholera" by gabriel garcia marquez. it's a far cry from steinbeck, which i think is good.

04/30: Bill said:

Not a Steinbeck fan? Or just like different stuff?

04/30: Trevor said:

So this blog is trackbacked at the site you linked for the book. Does that mean you *intentionally* said, "Hey .. this is a Trackback or something", or did it just know or what? How do they work?

05/01: Bill said:

At the bottom of the All Consuming page for each book, there is a trackback link. I just copy & pasted that into the "URLs to Ping" box for the MT entry. Supposedly MT can automatically look at all the pages you link to in your entry, see if they are trackback-able, and ping them, but it hasn't worked for me yet. I haven't tried it a lot, though.

05/01: kelley said:

well, steinbeck is a brutal realist, and marquez has a different kind of reality going on, which is very good.
but, no, i'm not too into steinbeck. haven't tried it in a while, though.

05/01: lauren said:

i loooove magical realism, which gabriel garcía marquez is. i also loooove steinbeck. cannery row was my absolutely most favorite ever, until i read east of eden this summer. READ EAST OF EDEN, BILL.

05/02: kelley said:

in case the term "magical realism" throws you off, (it makes me think of sci-fi novels with dragons on the front), just consider this: there was an episode of the simpsons based on a short story by garcia marquez. bill likes the simpsons! it was a weird episode, though.

05/02: Bill said:

I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda!

That's something different, I suppose. Anyway, I took up all of yous's advice and took out the Cholera book at the library yesterday. Apparently this Garcia Marquez dude has written a bunch of books. Who knew?

05/04: lauren said:

kelley, was it about the very old man with enormous wings?

05/04: kelley said:

yeah! the funny thing is, i read that in a short story class, and the teacher told us about the simpsons episode. i'd never seen it, and she was all loopy on pain killers for half the term, so i didn't really believe her. then i saw it, and it was strange.
lit fans can really get a lot out of the simpsons!

05/05: lauren said:

i have never seen it, but that's the first short story of his that i thought of. and i could see it as a simpsons episode.