Alice Munro’s Stories

Beginning in 2011, I started to read/re-read all of Alice Munro’s short stories in their collected form.

Please feel free to check the schedule and join in, for the series, or for a single story.

Sometimes the posts (particularly early in the project) have only a couple of quotes from each story and brief reading notes about the experience of reading them

Other times there is more of a concrete analysis of the story and its inner workings. (But the analysis is never very detailed because I keep the discussion spoiler-free.)

Sometimes I refer to outside sources, and other times other readers do that in the comments.

Dance of the Happy Shades 1968
Walker Brothers Cowboy; The Shining Houses; Images
Thanks for the ride; The Office; An Ounce of Cure
The Time of Death; Day of the Butterfly; Boys and Girls
Postcard; Red Dress – 1946; Sunday Afternoon
A Trip to the Coast; The Peace of Utrecht; Dance of the Happy Shades

Lives of Girls and Women 1971
The Flats Road; Heirs of the Living Body
Princess Ida; Age of Faith
Changes and Ceremonies; Lives of Girls and Women
Baptizing; Epilogue: The Photographer

Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You 1974
Something I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You; Material
How I Met My Husband; Walking on Water; Forgiveness in Families
Tell Me Yes or No; The Found Boat; Executioners; Marrakesh
The Spanish Lady; Winter Wind; Memorial; The Ottawa Valley

Who Do You Think You Are? (The Beggar Maid) 1977
Royal Beatings
Privilege
Half a Grapefruit
Wild Swans
The Beggar Maid
Mischief
Providence
Simon’s Luck
Spelling
Who Do You Think You Are?