The notes were botanical and geological, and not a one was literary. With a bit more delving, I found I had read the book ten years earlier. It took only about fifty pages into the book to recognize the handwriting as my own. Buying a used book with such notetaking is not something I generally do. Even more of a surprise as I began reading Angle of Repose (a copy which I unexpectedly found on my own shelves), was the marginalia throughout the book. If Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose hadn’t been the Clayton Community Library Book Club pick for January 2019, I never would have chosen it for review sometimes we readers just get lucky.Ī lot of book clubs draw the line on reading books over four-hundred pages, so it was a bit of a surprise that Stegner’s novel, all five-hundred-plus pages, was voted in as our first read of 2019. Because it is a new year doesn’t mean a reviewed book has to be new.
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