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Originally Posted by Michread
What are your best loved books - past or present?
Self Improvement - The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Slice of America's Past - The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
Crazy to read but worth it - The Trial. Kafka
SciFi with great story - Hyperion, Dan Simmons Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
Great American Survival WW II - Unbroken, Linda Hillenbrand
Fun Fantasy - Enchantment, Orson Scott Card
Scary Realistic Bio-Warfare - The Cobra Event, Richard Preston
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Because Steinbeck’s
Grapes of Wrath is one of your favorites, you might be interested in reading
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. It is about life in the Dust Bowl. The story is heartbreaking, but gives us a vivid picture of what it was like to try to survive in that time and place.
The story shows the reader how spoiled and lucky we are now to be able to have what we need, to take day-to-day basic needs for granted.
Their houses filled with blowing sand, coming in through even the smallest cracks. Their clothing was ripped by the strength and sharpness of those particles. Nothing grew. The livestock died. If they gave up and headed to California, they were often met by man’s inhumanity to man and basically enslaved.
That awful time was not even a hundred years ago.
The Four Winds is historic fiction. The characters are made up but the portrayal of the times is not.
Sometimes we need to be reminded through perspective.
Boomer