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A review by kandicez
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
1.0
In these ten stories nothing happens. I mean nothing. I get the feeling Munro was trying to show us the event that made drastic changes in a life. The problem is that, with no exceptions, each event described dealt too personally with internal feelings instead of anything actually happening.
I felt myself growing impatient by the third story, but then the fourth story opens with a mother and father on a picnic in a dangerous area and I thought, "Uh oh. A child is going to die. THIS will be traumatic." Nope. There's an accident, but nothing major and when the characters are revisited decades later it seems Munro is trying to show us the accident that day shaped their lives. What?! I got what she was going for, I just didn't think it made sense. I also didn't care.
I stuck in for the remainder of the stories because I was listening and busy at the same time (and had no other audio at the ready!). It would have felt like less a waste of time listening to the radio.
I felt myself growing impatient by the third story, but then the fourth story opens with a mother and father on a picnic in a dangerous area and I thought, "Uh oh. A child is going to die. THIS will be traumatic." Nope. There's an accident, but nothing major and when the characters are revisited decades later it seems Munro is trying to show us the accident that day shaped their lives. What?! I got what she was going for, I just didn't think it made sense. I also didn't care.
I stuck in for the remainder of the stories because I was listening and busy at the same time (and had no other audio at the ready!). It would have felt like less a waste of time listening to the radio.