tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644363208475422655.post5762814176013552240..comments2009-01-25T08:54:34.677-08:00Comments on Bayside Book Sharer: Bayside Book SharerBeverly Crofoothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11606644322757332829noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644363208475422655.post-60816566061136298202009-01-25T08:54:00.000-08:002009-01-25T08:54:00.000-08:00While looking for Stegner online, I found this web...While looking for Stegner online, I found this website, since I have read and enjoyed several of the books including Stegner's All the Little Live Things, I'm passing it on.<BR/><BR/>http://www.epls.org/readers/BookGroupSets.pdfBeverly Crofoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11606644322757332829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644363208475422655.post-32669523579776807222009-01-19T12:29:00.000-08:002009-01-19T12:29:00.000-08:00It has been so long since I read that Stegner. I&...It has been so long since I read that Stegner. I'll look and see if it is on my shelf. One of my Christmas present was "Alex & Me" by Irene Pepperberg. Alex is the talking grey parrot. The story was fascinating - how she trained the bird to communicate, how she found money to continue her research. Not sure my scientist Meg finds that all of Pepperberg's work<BR/>holds up but...Beverly Crofoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11606644322757332829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7644363208475422655.post-1431242226373098732009-01-19T11:59:00.000-08:002009-01-19T11:59:00.000-08:00OK - I finished Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner, ...OK - I finished Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner, while at Breitenbush. What a mammoth story, cross generational, illustrative about the West and its beginnings, about the people who lived, both East and West, at that time. I really cared about the characters and had wanted to discuss with someone/learn more about the structure/sources of his novel: were these real people? although he says in the intro, something about using some original sources, he made up the story. I loved the image of the 'angle of repose', the place were rock settles after it is disturbed - and how that concept applies to people as well.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10602485841436018269noreply@blogger.com