![]() ![]() (Danny's no war hero he spent the war breaking mules in Oklahoma.) Danny moves into one house and lets his ne'er-do-well friends move into the other. Here's the setup: After World War I, a young slacker named Danny comes home to find that his grandfather has died and left him some property with two ramshackle houses in Tortilla Flat, an area in the hills around Monterey. The conversation ended up digressing into a debate about what people should or shouldn't read for pleasure.īut I'm digressing. ![]() We had a good turnout for the group, but I'm not sure the discussion went very well - I think this was the most heated debate that I've ever seen in a book group! Basically, one person hated them book and thought it was a complete waste of time. Plus, there were plenty of copies in the library catalog, so I thought it was perfect. ( If nobody else suggests any titles, then I feel completely justified in being mercenary and picking books I want to read.) It's one of Steinbeck's early works, and it's fairly short, and we hadn't read any classics yet this year, so I thought it would be an interesting choice. Since I run my library's book discussion group and I have all the power, I chose Tortilla Flat for our July read, because it's on my Classics Club list. ![]()
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