Reading with Style discussion

Feel free to discuss Stegner's Pulitzer winner based on the life of Mary Hallock Foote.

This is one of my all time favorites. I seldom reread, but I hope to get to this again before too much time passes. It was my first Wallace Stegner. Because this shows up this time on the Group Reads, I was reminded that I have another by him on my shelf, and have bumped it up. He writes so marvelously.

This book was the January selection for one of my real life book clubs. I had read it a long time ago, but was really happy to revisit it last season. I listened to the audiobook and found that it translated very well to that format, as is often true of books with a first-person narrator.

I read this awhile back but really enjoyed it. It is very much a treat the see the early west from a feminine point of view. I also think mining is usually only covered in the pick axe and gold panning era and later mining towns and early large company mining is largely skipped.
Stegner's prose is beautiful.
I was disappointed to read about the dispute over Mary Hallock Foote's letters.