Welcome to Litsy!

The literary world lost a giant yesterday. Thank you, Alice, for enriching the lives of all your readers.

CBC has been republishing some great articles about Munro's life and work today.

92 things to know about Alice Munro:
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4088507

11 books Alice Munro loves and you will too:
https://www.cbc.ca/books/11-books-alice-munro-loves-and-you-will-too-1.4088869

Choosing a book just because the author has won the Nobel Prize for literature is not always easy.
And this may not be the most significant.. 🤷‍♀️

#books #libro #leggere #litsy #goodreads #toread #bookly #booklover #bookworm #alicemunro #einaudi #einaudieditore #livesofgirlsandwomen

A story that takes you along on some aspects of growing up and being a woman. I do not feel that the author judges or moralise over the incidents and feelings and gives room for just reading the story on your own.

13/2021

Just a few of the girls in my house!

#Boy #OppositeDay @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#ReadCanada 7/13 #Ontario
Picked it up 4 times, I just could not get into it 🤷🏻‍♀️

One of my favourite quotations from one of my favourite writers. There's always more to people than meets the eye!
Thanks for the tag @vivastory
#thoughtfulthursday

Ontario for #ReadCanada done

One of those books where I can't think of how to review without spiraling into essay mode, and I'm not gonna do that. So this not-a-review will be very similar to my last #ReadCanada review... A classic of #CanLit, not surprised that I enjoyed it, and glad I've read it.

Quiet weekend morning ❤️ taking a moment to be grateful for this time, and how delicious these local pears are, and how I have 25 pages left in this book which I've been enjoying.

I managed to find my first post for a photo challenge hosted by @Cinfhen . (Took some scrolling!) I've been an occasional participant over the years, but appreciate all that you have done Cindy to make Litsy fun and active. You are #amazing! 💕🙌
#MOvember

Doing some research in the stacks and happened upon this old school #Canlit cover. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of Alice Munro without white hair.

I feel I‘m supposed to love this book. I don‘t. The author writes well, but the subject is dull. It is a novel but it often reads like a series of short stories loosely strung together. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 1/2 hours into #Readathon #24B4Monday @TheReadingMermaid

I‘m way behind on this one, I should have finished it last month with #Reading1001, but my March plans got delayed.

However, despite my long reading time, and various delays....I really loved this book. It‘s a complete story, told through various sections of a young girl‘s life, growing up and coming of age in rural Canada during the depression, and specifically the women in her life that influenced her as she grew into a woman herself...⬇️

Darn girls and their reasonableness! 🙄.

Such a profound character flaw😂

“I wanted men to love me, and I wanted to think of the universe when I looked at the moon. I felt trapped, stranded; it seemed there had to be a choice where there couldn‘t be a choice.”

Sadly, I think a lot of women can relate....to this kind of coming of age, what the heck moment, where we hopefully, eventually, realize it is society that is out of whack, not us.

“I felt that it was not so different from all the other advice handed out to women, to girls, advice that assumed being female made you damageable, that a certain amount of carefulness and solemn fuss and self-protection were called for, whereas men were supposed to be able to go out and take on all kinds of experiences and shuck off what they didn‘t want and come back proud. Without even thinking about it, I had decided to do the same.”

Lives of Girls and Women is a really quiet, beautifully written, very quotable book. Some of my favorites highlighted as I went along are above. I love Munro‘s subtlety in presenting Del‘s coming of age in a small town. All of the other people in her life, especially the women, and richly drawn and complex.

Another #1001books success. 😃

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

"As I walked on into Jubilee I repossessed the world. Trees, houses, fences, streets, came back to me, in their own sober and familiar shapes. Unconnected to the life of love, uncolored by love, the world resumes its own, its natural and callous importance. This is first a blow, then an odd consolation."
#reread #allthebooksof2017 #love #quotsydec17 @tk-421

It's arrived and I can't believe I lived without it till now! 😍🦄🐶📚 Thank you so much @bookgogo for my lovely #firstbooksleeve #bookgogo

Thanks @batsy for the tag. What a hard task! I went with authors that I have read a fair amount of. Also authors I have re-read or plan to re-read.
If you havent been tagged already want to play? @readinginthedark @Jess_Read_This @tamra @Lacythebookworm @AnneCecilie @Andrew65
Really anyone reading this, consider yourself tagged. Good luck! 😀
#10authorrecommendations

Living large at lunch with Alice Munro and Temple coffee

Beautifully written. A coming of age story without any cliché, a totally fresh look on sexual awakening. Love Munro, her complex characters, and her ability to write the extraordinary into even small town Ontario life.

Canada Day Reads! Keep an eye out for my month of Canada tbr to celebrate the (controversial) 150th birthday of Oh Canada ❤️🇨🇦#Canada #Canadianauthors #july1st #wine #adultliterature #shortstorycollection #alicemunro #nobelprizewinners

How well she writes. The most difficult circumstances and feelings Munro is able to translate into fluent, easy proze with as little words as necessary. I admire this immensely although I thought the story less than The Beggar Maid. #1001books Picture: Willemstad, Curacao

#life (close enough)

Also, another #onemoretry read for me. Didn't care for it, decided to reread when she won the Nobel Prize, and enjoyed it much more.

#junebookbugs #junetunz
@RealLifeReading @Cinfhen

I had no idea sweet @Cinfhen had created fun #lyricalapril

Rereading Lives of Girls and Women is a #bittersweetsymphony. I was an undergraduate the last time I read it. It's filled with marginal notes in my cramped handwriting. Brings back memories of my youth and why I loved the book so much.

You could say I've got a few #canadianauthors on my bookshelves 🤗
#proudcanuck #marchintoreading
I had the maple syrup out for breakfast and I had to keep it for the pic 😂
From the top:
Alice Munro
George Elliott Clarke
Emily St. John Mandel
Ami McKay
Alissa York
Lawrence Hill
Gil Adamson
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Margaret Atwood
Sean Cullen
Michael Ondaatje
Robertson Davies
Michael Crummy
Diane Schoemperlen
Annabel Lyons
Elizabeth Hay
☟cont'd

An Alice Munro #bookpyramid. #photoadaynov16 @RealLifeReading

Munro perfectly captures the emotional journey of Del Jordan during her transition from girlhood to womanhood. Although it takes place in rural Ontario in the 1940's, I could relate to her experiences of friendship, sexuality, self-discovery, first-love, and to her relationship with her mother.

Yay! I can participate in Fun Friday. On vacay and only brought a few books (7 to be exact), and I just started this one. Thanks Ange44 for mentioning in your post that Alice Munro is Canadian! 😊 Happy Canada Day!

No trip to NYC would be complete without a trip to the Strand. Think I recall Simon and Thomas of the Readers talking about Alice Munro. Something tells me I'm late to the party...