A review by odin45mp
The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro

2.0

I'm sorry that this was my introduction to Alice Munro - three of my fellow book club members said that having read this, their favorite Munro was another collection, or another specific story. This collection left me underwhelmed. It was uneven, with the stories wavering from full on almost full, fanciful fiction, and almost nonfiction. I particularly enjoyed the title story and a couple others, but I found it hard to care about a good number of situations. Slice of historical life is not my genre, it would seem. Give me an impactful setting - say, a World War, or a pandemic, and I'm in. This slice of everyday small town life is not that appealing to me.

I will give my fellow readers' favorites a try though, because they were emphatic that she has written better. We did have a good discussion at book club, so there is that.