Infinite Riches: Virago Modern Classics

2015-09-16T12:22:58-04:00

And what will you find in this collection of short stories, edited by Lynne Knight and published under this title (and under The Secret Woman) in 1993? Thoughts and ideas about many things. About marriage: "If she had never, from the first, regarded her marriage as a full cancelling of

Infinite Riches: Virago Modern Classics2015-09-16T12:22:58-04:00

Late-Summer Reading: When and Where

2024-05-31T19:05:15-04:00

For the past couple of weeks, I have been listening to Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce on my daily walks. I was walking in full summer, listening to descriptions of winter in Moose Factory in Northern Ontario. The clusters of cloud in the story were from the exhaust of snowmobiles in

Late-Summer Reading: When and Where2024-05-31T19:05:15-04:00

How Much Happiness, Really

2024-05-31T19:07:12-04:00

Is it too much? Or, just enough. What am I to make of this final story in my Alice Munro reading project. (I read her last collection, Dear Life, in 2012.) While rereading Too Much Happiness, I was constantly aware of the references to being happy, to happiness, in the

How Much Happiness, Really2024-05-31T19:07:12-04:00

Quarterly Stories: Summer 2015

2020-12-18T16:00:34-05:00

This year I have read some stand-out collections, but for the most part I neglected to take notes from them: Joy Williams' Honored Guests, Kathleen Winter's The Freedom in American Songs, Jessica Grant's Making Light of Tragedy, Shawn Syms' Nothing Looks Familiar, Elaine McCluskey's Hello, Sweetheart, Julia Leggett's Gone South and Other

Quarterly Stories: Summer 20152020-12-18T16:00:34-05:00

“Wood” Alice Munro

2017-07-25T11:20:34-04:00

Strangely enough, although I read this story twice earlier this year as well, when I scanned the table of contents I could not place it. Planning to reread for a third time this morning, I had no idea; it wasn't until the talk of the truck and Roy's need to gather the wood

“Wood” Alice Munro2017-07-25T11:20:34-04:00
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