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May 15, 2017
The Pearl - by John Steinbeck
Jennifer and I were down in the Yucatan for a Carribbean vacation over spring break. One of the things I did was slip a few books into my backpack for the trip, including The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway, and The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
Jen pointed out on the trip that I had read the book The Pearl to her at home, but I didn't really have any recollection of that.
Only, I think that what happened was when I went down through Baja on my motorcycle, I ended up in La Paz at one point, the setting for Steinbeck's The Pearl. So, I think that when I got back, I must have bought the book and read it to her.
Re-reading it now, I asked her..."When did we read this together?" and she was like "I have no information on that." So, she didn't really recall when we had read it, just that we had. Then I started thinking that maybe it was before she learned to read, but they learn to read in Kindergarten. So, I must have read it to her when she already knew how to read.
So I searched Peenie Wallie for the answer, and there it was, in my digital diary.
We finished reading the book in August of 2010 (roughly 7 years ago), so she was 12 at the time we were reading it.
I'm not a big fan of the book, as it's little more than socialist propaganda, but it was fun to reread it and reminisce with her.
Posted by Rob Kiser on May 15, 2017 at 7:21 AM
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