“They have a lovely life, cows. It ends, of course, in the slaughterhouse. The end is a disaster. For everybody, though, the same thing. Evil grabs us when we are sleeping; pain and disintegration lie in wait.”
My first Munro 💗
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Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 | 
“They have a lovely life, cows. It ends, of course, in the slaughterhouse. The end is a disaster. For everybody, though, the same thing. Evil grabs us when we are sleeping; pain and disintegration lie in wait.”
My first Munro 💗
Because Alice. ❤️❤️❤️
#TBRtemptation post 8! If you're a Munro fan, you'll love this thick, heavy book from the Nobel Prize winner! Besides being a treasure trove of 25 of her short stories, it's gorgeous to behold and worthy of displaying on your coffee table. Most of the stories are set in southwestern Ontario, and they highlight the extraordinary peculiarities among common folk while resonating with universal themes beautifully rendered. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
Sam: "I heard about Munro when she won the Nobel Prize and wanted to check her out. This is a collection of short stories and I pretty much love all of them. Munro nails the humanity of every day situations. The complexity of people's motivations and how nothing is black or white – I really enjoy the clarity with which she presents this. Someone like Joyce uses very flowery language that can be hard to understand. This is not that kind of novel."
Alfrida writes for the paper, and the narrator of this short story (Family Furnishings) is a writer. It's a pitch-perfect short story, and the example for - how to write in the form of a short story, and to tell the whole novel.
... and my book of this short stories is paperback 😉
#rockinmay #paperbackwriter
