“Like the children in fairy stories who have seen their parents make pacts with terrifying strangers, who have discovered that our fears are based on nothing but the truth, but who come back fresh from marvellous escapes and take up their knives and forks, with humility and good manners, prepared to live happily ever after—like them, dazed and powerful with secrets, I never said a word.“
#SundaySentence
Oh, wasn‘t it strange, how in your imagination, when you stood up for something, your voice rang, people started, abashed; but in real life they all smiled in rather a special way and you saw that what you had really done was serve yourself up as a conversational delight for the next coffee party.
(from “The Shining Houses,“ the second story in the collection)
A little girl takes her father‘s hand and the two of them wander away as her brother begs them to bring him an ice cream cone. Today that sort of beginning feels ominous: what‘s going to happen?
https://sophronisba.com/2022/11/26/reading-alice-munro-walker-brothers-cowboy/
#Septembowie Day 3: #LetsDance - I seriously should get to reading my Alice Munro novels. So many gorgeous books!
Went to my TBR shelf and picked these up for #readathon.
I will be reading from this stack depending on what catches my fancy at the moment. I may even add more books to this stack to choose from. 😄 @DeweysReadathon
Do we really have to start Munro's bio with Jonathan Franzen?
Do we really have to start Munro's bio with Jonathan Franzen?
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