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Summer has arrived, so I'm back on Steinbeck's case. I intend to finally get round to East of Eden in a couple of months, but for now I am working my way through The Long Valley, a collection of short stories. Not sure when he wrote them, but I'm guessing it was before Cannery Row, there being several tales that, if not repeated verbatim, were certainly written about the same characters.
I'm also reading a collection of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, writer of the Declaration of Independence, purchaser of Louisiana and pioneer of separation between Church and State. He won his first term exactly 200 years before Bush won his, and left office exactly 200 years before Bush will leave. Just goes to show what happens when you let Texas into America in the intervening years.
I am also due to start reading Netherland, by someone O'Neill, which isn't about people in Holland, but NYC after 9/11, which I am reviewing for a newspaper.
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