Steinbeck row5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() “Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.” This book was that for me, and I loved the way it reflected life. There’s a sense of waiting in the air, an excitement bordering on anxiety. Those weeks of squeezing all your summer bucket list items in at the last minute, the feeling of sunshine and warmth and long daylight gradually slipping through your fingers. That month of transition when you’re itching for fall but reminding yourself to savor the summer. ![]() I read this book in August, a month that has always felt like the “hour of the pearl” for me, too. It’s a sort of liminal space where thoughts, hopes, and dreams can run wild and judgment dissipates, if only for a brief while. ![]() I’m obsessed with the atmosphere Steinbeck created in Cannery Row. “It is the hour of the pearl–the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.” ![]()
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