The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro
5/10
Sorry - this book was recommended by a facebook friend when I was looking for Canadian authors to read, but I can't finish it. This is more my inadequacy that Alice Munro's.
She has given me such a fantastic insight into what life must have been like for the early migrants to America and Canada - how they established themselves, and the challenges they faced (and, I suppose, the different challenges of the next few generations). But I kept thinking 'what is the story here?'. I just want a novel to tell me a story, and this was more like short stories, along the theme of her family. It is an admirable book, and if I were reading it on holiday, uninterrupted by real life, I think I might appreciate it better. I don't really do short stories.
5/10
Sorry - this book was recommended by a facebook friend when I was looking for Canadian authors to read, but I can't finish it. This is more my inadequacy that Alice Munro's.
She has given me such a fantastic insight into what life must have been like for the early migrants to America and Canada - how they established themselves, and the challenges they faced (and, I suppose, the different challenges of the next few generations). But I kept thinking 'what is the story here?'. I just want a novel to tell me a story, and this was more like short stories, along the theme of her family. It is an admirable book, and if I were reading it on holiday, uninterrupted by real life, I think I might appreciate it better. I don't really do short stories.
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