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sarahsulliv's review against another edition
5.0
Beautiful, heartwrenching collection of short stories. Alice Munro is amazing, because her short fiction still feels so rich and complete, even if the whole world is created and ended in 30 pages. Not as good as Runaway, but probably my second favorite of hers.
thingtwo's review against another edition
4.0
More beauty from Munro. It's getting hard for me to review her writing - to distinguish a four star from a five. She's just a brilliant writer.
There are ten stories in this collection. Each is vastly different; from "Too Much Happiness" about the last days of Russian author and mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya to the haunting story of young co-ed in her first year of college "Wenlock Edge", Munro's women move through life with steam - taking it as it comes and, somehow, surviving, learning, and growing. Something I suppose we all hope to do: to take each day - learn and grow - and find pot at the end of the rainbow that holds too much happiness.
Another brilliant collection.
There are ten stories in this collection. Each is vastly different; from "Too Much Happiness" about the last days of Russian author and mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya to the haunting story of young co-ed in her first year of college "Wenlock Edge", Munro's women move through life with steam - taking it as it comes and, somehow, surviving, learning, and growing. Something I suppose we all hope to do: to take each day - learn and grow - and find pot at the end of the rainbow that holds too much happiness.
Another brilliant collection.
tarig's review against another edition
Could not finish this book of short stories. PS the title is definitely misnamed.
meredithink's review against another edition
2.0
This isn't normally the type of book I read but read it for a book club. I think if it is your thing it must be great. Of the 10 stories I did enjoy "Free Radicals" and "Too Much Happiness."
afrolicofmyown's review against another edition
2.0
While Munro's keen eye and ear for detail has been much commented on and is no doubt true, I found these stories overly sentimental. In short, while an excellent practitioner of the genre, Munro's does nothing to advance the art.
allieta's review against another edition
4.0
Masterful collection by a favorite of mine. A few stories in the middle lagged for me, although the final story was a winner that rounded out the collection well. Interesting themes around wood working, couples with one child.
joannamn6's review against another edition
4.0
Lately I've had a hard time reading short stories--I don't "get" them the way I "get" a novel, perhaps because there's little time to really develop the characters. This short story collection by Alice Munro, however, was captivating enough to get me to finish it in a day and a half. In the story "Child's Play" she layers the past and the present in a way that the horror of what two children have done years earlier isn't fully revealed until the very last lines. A brilliant writer.