Apologies and Moving On

I must apologize again to anyone who's following my blog - I have been terrible about keeping posts current. There was a mission at church that kept me quite busy and I didn't get to do too much reading; also the book was a bit slower paced and hard to read in short sittings.

However, I did get to spend a few hours reading today and have now finished The Grapes of Wrath. Over all I enjoyed it as much as you can enjoy reading about all of those troubles. Through much of the Joad family's plight (and that of all Okies) I was rather reminded of the current illegal immigration problem, especially in terms of their treatment by most everyone, their living conditions, and their motivation for being here.

In particular I found the final image interesting. I mostly guessed this action on their part before it happened, but only by a few paragraphs margin.

I'm now moving on to read The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. So far I've only read the quotes at the beginning of the book - I was amused by the Swann's Way quote; mostly because my sister read that book not too long ago (she somewhat enjoyed it).