false 1730247 972322 Stephen Lyn Bales male Knoxville, TN 11/2008 12/2009 6 101 101 true 5647481 read 0 true 3788288 currently-reading 0 true 3788287 to-read The Life of the Skies (Hardcover) by Jonathan Rosen]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79281584 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41e0VfAvoEL._SL75_.jpg 1730247 Stephen http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1227054008p2/1730247.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1730247-stephen Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:04:30 -0800 To say Jonathan Rosen’s “The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature” is a book about birding is like saying the Queen Mary was a boat. Well yes it was, or is, but it is also so much more.

At its core is the author’s newfound love of birding, which the New Yorker pur...more...]]> The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions (Hardcover) by David Quammen]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61871590 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173230307s/261818.jpg 1730247 Stephen http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1227054008p2/1730247.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1730247-stephen Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:55:10 -0800 more...]]> The Power of Myth (paper) by Joseph Campbell]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76774065 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255738289s/35519.jpg 1730247 Stephen http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1227054008p2/1730247.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1730247-stephen Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:19:30 -0800
TRUE STORY: I was facing one of those milestone birthdays where you find yourself asking the big questions like, “What the heck am I doing?” “Am I on the right course?” "Who am I?"

I wandered into a local ...more...]]> The Optimist's Daughter: A Novel (Hardcover) by Eudora Welty]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76623740 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RS78DR9FL._SL75_.jpg 1730247 Stephen http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1227054008p2/1730247.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1730247-stephen Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:06:57 -0800 “Wings beat again. Flying in from over the mountain, over the roof and a child’s head, high up in blue air, pigeons had formed a cluster and twinkled as one body. Like a great sheet of cloth whipping in a wind of its own making, they were about her ears. They came down to her feet and walk...more...]]> Return of the Osprey : A Season of Flight and Wonder (Hardcover) by David Gessner]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75629190 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183304250s/1399353.jpg 1730247 Stephen http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1227054008p2/1730247.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1730247-stephen Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:58:34 -0700
The author digs in and watches a season of osprey nestings and the raisin...more...]]> Galapagos (Hardcover) by Kurt Vonnegut]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74801105 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179754473s/951581.jpg 1730247 Stephen http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1227054008p2/1730247.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1730247-stephen Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:38:02 -0700
...more...]]> Oscar Wilde Discovers America: A Novel (Hardcover) by Louis Edwards]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72723534 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255958979s/2058997.jpg 1730247 Stephen http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1227054008p2/1730247.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1730247-stephen Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:57:50 -0700 ...more...]]> Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback) by Ray Bradbury]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71810051 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51erK56rwYL._SL75_.jpg 1730247 Stephen http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1227054008p2/1730247.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1730247-stephen Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:54:37 -0700 more...]]> Bless Me, Ultima (Mass Market Paperback) by Rudolfo Anaya]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71304321 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178296740s/781820.jpg 1730247 Stephen http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1227054008p2/1730247.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1730247-stephen Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:21:22 -0700 I read “Bless me, Utltima” as part of the Big Read going on in my city. As a naturalist, I enjoyed the natural thread that runs through the book.

The novel's story line takes place in New Mexico just after World War II and follows the maturation of grade-schooler Antonio, the y...more...]]> The Illustrated Man (paperback) by Ray Bradbury]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67215665 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240527514s/2969455.jpg 1730247 Stephen http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1227054008p2/1730247.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1730247-stephen Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:44:47 -0700
One man walked b...more...]]>