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review 2020-05-31 18:54
Dear Life ★★★★☆
Dear Life: Stories - Alice Munro

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 often at a remove from the characters, but each story still pulled at me in some way. 

 

Paperback. I discovered Munro while vacationing at a rental beach house and had finished the book I had brought with me, so was browsing the completely random selections on the bookshelves. I didn't get to read more than the first story in this collection, but it was enough to know that I needed to have a copy for myself. 

 

I read this book for Booklikesopoly 2020, lot Mountain Cabin 15: Read a book with a tree or a mountain on the cover, or read a book that features a main character who is a father. This book has a tree (or tree trunk, I guess) on the cover with a woodsy background.

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text 2020-05-29 13:55
Dear Life - pg 91/336
Dear Life: Stories - Alice Munro

She had existed and now she did not. Not at all, as if not ever. And people hurried around, as if this outrageous fact could be overcome by making sensible arrangements. He, too, obeyed the customs, signing where he was told to sign, arranging - as they said - for the remains.

 

 

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text 2020-05-28 20:28
Dear Life - pg 47/336
Dear Life: Stories - Alice Munro

Ahhh. I love Munro's ability to write a simple story about normal people in normal situations and to somehow make them so very interesting. 

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text 2018-10-27 13:33
Japan erreichen
Liebes Leben - Alice Munro

Mhm, doch.

 

 

Diese Kurzgeschichte hat mir gefallen. Anders als "Kies" wesentlich optimistischer. Eine Frau, die mal eben so ihre Lebensumstände ändert. Sie hat mich erheitert zurückgelassen.

Dabei bin ich mir ziemlich sicher, dass das nicht alle so sehen!

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text 2018-10-14 19:35
Kies
Liebes Leben - Alice Munro

Soll ich dir eine Geschichte vorlesen? Ja. Aber bitte keine glückliche!

Okay, such dir eine aus! Kies!

Also dann. Kies.

 

Von Alice Munro habe ich noch nie was gelesen. Diese Buch habe ich geschenkt bekommen, und ich bin voller Neugierde. Doch "Kies" war tatsächlich keine glückliche Geschichte. Bekanntlich soll man ja aufpassen, was man sich wünscht... Irgendwie ganz schnörkellos, schlecht zum vorlesen aufgrund der kurzen Sätze, aber eigentlich genau das, was der Titel verspricht. (Gerade mal nachgeschaut, der englische Titel ist "Dear Life" also tatsächlich mal eine wörtliche Übersetzung, die dank des deutschen Wortspiels leider nicht zur Geltung kommt.) Ich bin gespannt auf die anderen Geschichten, ich ahne es wird bittersüß.

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