I will reread a book by one of my favorite writers. / myLot

Chile

September 12, 2022 9:40pm CST

I went to the "fun room" at La Cabanna as I am about to finish the book I´m reading. There I had the pleasure of finding a book I have in Spanish by one of my favorite writers: John Steinbeck. The book is called Tortilla flat and it is about some people in California where many of his novels take place. I prefer to read it in the native language as so many things are missed with a translation. I have read 3 chapters and I´m completly immersed in it. If you can get it, read it. It must be in many places as John Steinbeck is a Nobel prize author. Now I´m on the risotto. See you.

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ShannyBananny

@shaggin (74987)

• United States

13 Sep 22

John Steinbeck was a woman? I’ve read a few books by that author but not the one you mention. I never like reading a book twice. I happy you found it in your native language that’s wonderful!

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marguicha

@marguicha (230365)

• Chile

13 Sep 22

John Steibeck was a man. I like to read again good books. I read it a long time ago.

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ShannyBananny

@shaggin (74987)

• United States

13 Sep 22

@marguicha oh somehow I misread it an thought you referred to the author as a her. I must be too tired. That’s my hint to go to bed now that the baby is asleep and my floors are clean.

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marguicha

@marguicha (230365)

• Chile

13 Sep 22

@shaggin Sleep tight.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502886)

• Italy

13 Sep 22

I have been to Tortilla Flat, that is an old town in Arizona. Interesting that he mixes the names of places existing and set them in California.

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marguicha

@marguicha (230365)

• Chile

13 Sep 22

He wrote most of his books about California. In fact, one of his main works (East of Eden) IS about a mixture of California and his family.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502886)

• Italy

13 Sep 22

@marguicha I have to check his books.

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marguicha

@marguicha (230365)

• Chile

13 Sep 22

@LadyDuck Idon´t always think that Literature Nobel prizes are well given. But in this case, I think Steinbeck wholly deserved it.

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Heather Echola

@GardenGerty (169591)

• United States

14 Sep 22

I have read some things by John Steinbeck but not Tortilla Flats. I find him both depressing and inspiring in different ways.

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marguicha

@marguicha (230365)

• Chile

14 Sep 22

The most depressing one is Grapes of Wrath. But still that book made possible a change in the laws of the US under President Franklin D. Roosevelt (The New Deal). But this book is not depressing at all. It is very human though.