Summer Reading Bingo {a forgotten classic}
The Red Pony | by John Steinbeck
Although not sure what I was expecting, this was different from my expectations. I struggled to find what might be considered a “forgotten” classic, but decided upon this one, because I found it laying around my parents’ house and I had never read it before.
Truly, this is John Steinbeck. You can hear his voice clearly. I was at first put off by how the four chapters each seemed like a completely different story, but grew to love it, as that is often how life seems, isn’t it? Sort of with separate parts and yet they are all connected and lived by one person. How one part of life affects the next, even if it is in a subtle and unspoken way.
Each story held a beautiful and sad story...and maybe even a lesson?... within it, which hung with me beyond the last page.
