Britt McCubbin’s Reviews > East of Eden > Status Update

"And the books that came into the house, some of them secretly - well, Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands."

“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.”

This is one of those books that’s so good I feel like I should probably just never attempt writing again

so far so good !