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A review by kimberussell
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro
3.0
Honestly, I picked this because of Munro's Nobel Prize win. Also, I could stand to read more serious works among my usual dishy reads.
The stories were mostly depressing, and everyone was either poor, ill, abused, or a combination of the three. But despite the dour themes (And the jumping around in time, which always confuses me. But as I've said in past reviews, that's my own mental malfunction.) I enjoyed the stories, choosing to reread a few so that I could catch the subtleties among the thick prose. I was surprised that this book took me as long to read as a regular novel.
The stories were mostly depressing, and everyone was either poor, ill, abused, or a combination of the three. But despite the dour themes (And the jumping around in time, which always confuses me. But as I've said in past reviews, that's my own mental malfunction.) I enjoyed the stories, choosing to reread a few so that I could catch the subtleties among the thick prose. I was surprised that this book took me as long to read as a regular novel.