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Lisa Busch
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Didn’t expect to get sucked in entirely. Thought it was going to be a slow drag but I’m in it now. The description of the night worlds reminded me of camping when we went out west but sad and desperate and uneasy. My God life was hard then.
— Jun 18, 2026 07:22PM
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Lisa Busch
is on page 392 of 536
Picking peaches for a meal. Bass-akwards - and I thought we made it up.
— Jul 31, 2026 06:19PM
Lisa Busch
is on page 369 of 536
Rotten fruit and starving people. So much like Ireland. I had no idea this had happened here.
— Jul 30, 2026 06:15PM
Lisa Busch
is on page 328 of 536
Chapter 21 - “and the companies and the banks worked to their own doom and did not know it.”
Chapter 22 -
Dignity and fellowship returns in the camp - exactly what the big machine does not want - and we watch it grow. Hope is reborn in a shower and porcelain toilets are introduced.
Easier to read because it’s not as depressing. But still waiting for the other shoe to drop.
— Jul 12, 2026 06:00PM
Chapter 22 -
Dignity and fellowship returns in the camp - exactly what the big machine does not want - and we watch it grow. Hope is reborn in a shower and porcelain toilets are introduced.
Easier to read because it’s not as depressing. But still waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Lisa Busch
is on page 246 of 536
The progression from working the land to owning the land to owning a business that has a farm. From farming to eat to farming for profit to farming for corporate profit and world production. Never thought of it like that but it was palpable as described by Steinbeck.
— Jun 24, 2026 06:52PM