Here are the books I've added to the #192025 challenge in the last couple of months. Making steady progress but it's getting harder to fill the slots, especially since I'm trying to not repeat any authors. The challenge is definitely broadening my reading. @Librarybelle
so-soA bit slow-paced and contemplative for my tastes. I didn't feel especially engaged with the characters until quite late in the story, but I do appreciate the quality of Stegner's writing and how he explores the theme of aging.
#JoyousJanuary @Andrew65
#gottacatchemall @PuddleJumper (prompt 24: Koffing: Toxic relationship)
so-soOK but not fantastic work of fiction by Stegner. I enjoyed it somewhat. Not sure why it won an award. Older guy and his wife looking at his Danish roots and a kind of scandal there.
I'm going to read this one next, for which I have a copy. I liked his Angle of Repose and some nonfiction of his that I've read.
Yes!! This is exactly what it feels like when you are surprised by the old person looking back at you in the mirror.
This is how my mind works. Exactly. No computers —just the old geezer shuffling around the stacks in slippers. 😬
Tonight my book group discussed Spectator Bird. This book was so beautifully written.
The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
This was what I bought at the Books By The Pound store. This haul cost $12. I had to really limit myself - there was a LOT more I wanted to buy 😀
It reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonable well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.
Spectator Bird | 
