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by Alice Munro
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Portable Magic
Portable Magic rated it 5 years ago
I don't think I could do this book of short stories justice with a review. Munro writes stories about ordinary people in everyday situations that are a turning point in their lives. To have an affair, to stay or leave, to wait or act, to be silent or speak. She writes without any literary tricks and...
silverneurotic
silverneurotic rated it 10 years ago
With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped -- the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of bei...
Climbing Mount TBR
Climbing Mount TBR rated it 10 years ago
Read this book as part of a challenge to read things you usually wouldn't. This definitely qualifies. How to put this, I enjoy the author's writing but not her stories. The stories are very much about life, but life when it doesn't turn out quite like you had planned. If I were to choose a fav...
Ellinor's Litventures
Ellinor's Litventures rated it 11 years ago
Short Stories are not my favourite genre. Usually once I'm into the story it is already over again. There are only very few exceptions to this rule. Sometimes a story is better kept short and the rest left to the reader's imagination.In this collection there were several of the latter type which mad...
adelacacovean
adelacacovean rated it 11 years ago
Nope. Just... not the right moment to read this maybe. I might try again some other time. Now I want more action :)
Michael's Book Babble
Michael's Book Babble rated it 11 years ago
I don’t know why the hell it took me so long to finally sit down and read Alice Munro. I was happy as heck when I’d heard she won the Nobel Prize for Literature, because I knew she was mostly known as a short story writer. It’s always nice to see that form of writing get recognized, because I know n...
Jenny's Book Bag
Jenny's Book Bag rated it 11 years ago
Just OK.
Jenny's Book Bag
Jenny's Book Bag rated it 11 years ago
Just OK.
Rowena's Reviews
Rowena's Reviews rated it 11 years ago
I’m always careful not to fall victim to popular opinion when reading any book, especially one by such an acclaimed and beloved writer as Alice Munro. I tried to forget the fact that Munro had only recently won the Nobel prize for fiction. This is only my second Munro so maybe I’m not the best judge...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: nobel-laureate, winter-20132014, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, lit-richer, lifestyles-deathstyles, fradio, canada, cover-hate, published-2012 Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from December 08 to 15, 2013 BBC BLURB: Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ...
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