2017 Reading Challenge - Read a book published between 1900 and 1950.
I have an entire bookshelf of classic books from Easton Press, so this was a perfect challenge topic to open one of those beautiful books with it's leather binding, gold bound pages, hand drawn illustrations and ribbon bookmarks.
I've not read Steinbeck since high school when I trudged through Grapes of Wrath. So I wasn't sure about selecting Steinbeck for this challenge, but I have a friend who loves him, another who recommended Of Mice and Men and it was a novella, so I knew I could get it done in no time!
What a profoundly sad book, which tends to be right up Steinbeck's alley. I love Lennie and love George even more for loving Lennie. Yet, there are just such sad lonely characters throughout the book who in the hopes of forgetting their troubles will belittle, threaten and bring down someone else.
I'm glad I read the book and I enjoyed it, but it leaves me with a heavy heart. Thankful today is a bright sunny day that I can get out and shake off some of the sadness it has left me with.
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