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EDIT: I want to acknowledge my conflicting feelings given recent events. I can stand by the statement that she is a true master of the short story, however she clearly was not the woman I believed her to be. I thought she understood the struggles of women & girls & was seeking to better their lives, but to choose your husband over daughter when you find out he had molested her? I want to separate the art from the artist, but I'm not sure I can 😔

I‘m definitely not going to accomplish my goal of zeroing out my Currently Reading list, but I did complete my 2022Reading Challenge! With a week to spare! And without a bunch of eleventh hour children‘s books to pad my numbers! 🥳

Never posted my August #Bookspin and #BookspinBingo. The tagged book is my book spin, and Meddling Kids is my #DoubleSpin. I will finish neither this month (or much of anything else) 😕, but I‘ve started planning for September and hopefully it will be better.

Alice Munro is such a master of the short story - I completely see why she won the Nobel Prize (which I don‘t always think with the winners…). These short stories were perfectly deep, they felt just the right length, they contained just the right amount of detail and character, and they were wonderful to read while sick with coffee on a winter night.

Curtis Sittenfeld recommends anything by Alice Munro. Yes! And Mark Haddon articulates my own reasons for turning to books—and why I‘m not in the right frame of mind at present: “I read novels for intellectual stimulation, for insights into different lives and different minds, for the thrill of language used in new ways.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/05/novelists-pick-books-to-inspire-up...

Have you ever wanted to reach through the pages of a book and slap a man silly? That‘s how I‘m feeling about the second story into his collection.

I never take the time to read short story collections so I‘ve committed myself to reading one per day the entire rest of the time I‘m in #socialisolation. Dipping into the first story in this—my first Alice Munro!!—and I was pulled in right away.

Now that I'm away
I wish I'd stayed
Tomorrow's a day of mine
That you won't be in🎶

#vacation #songsofsummer @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

I've been reading this for a while. I couldn't tune in the book yet, the stories (at least the first two) have slow start unlike some short stories I've read, and the Indonesian translation doesn't feel much "flowing". It's also Eid week now so life has been hectic lately. Hope for better reading sessions in the coming days.

The first six on the left are from secondhand bookstores and the rest were thrift shop finds. I went a little nuts for Alice Munro and have made a project of reading one of her stories daily and reading more short stories in general. Apart from its damaged dust jacket, History of Reading was great find, I think #bookhaul

Day #27 #canadianauthors #marchintoreading Here are a few of the Canadian authors on my shelves.

#canadianauthors - movie/celebrity edition! 🎬 (the movie based on Alice Munro's short story is Hateship, Loveship) #marchintoreading

Munro is a master. Nearly all of these stories have elusive yet satisfying endings. As in life, people wander in and out never fully aware of their effect on others. All her praise and awards are deserved. #shortfiction #dogsoflitsy #movingtocanada

The first story was my first Alice Munro and, well, I couldn't stop reading after that, not for a while anyway. I've read two of her collections and almost every story is a gem.

I'm often not really a fan of short stories, but the first one (title story) was good.

A short story that ended too abruptly IMHO.

I've read only the first story and I am more than impressed. The story is a very clean, sophisticated and effective. I look forward to read the rest, but that will have to wait until tomorrow ... now to work.

#book7 in #bookisholympics and the mission #goingforsilver is completed, 6 novels and 1 short story in a week.

Happy 85th Birthday, Alice Munro!

Happy Canada Day!🍁🍁
Can't go wrong with some Alice Munro... Will bump this up higher in the queue in my TBR

What a lovely book full of realistic tales of love and relationships. My first Munro collection and I couldn't have picked a better book. Highly recommended. 4/5.

Finally spending some time with Ms. Munro. I don't think I'll be disappointed.