Just finished this book. It was a difficult read, in a stream of consciousness style. Parts of it were better than others. Follows the interior state of Joana, from childhood to marriage, to her decision to make her own way in the world. Intriguing, but not page turning.

Beautifully wrought short stories by a master storyteller, written in the last year of his life, before his untimely death at 50 from lung cancer. The story imagining the death of Chekhov is specially moving. Recommended.

Interesting advice to a hopeful poet, in 10 letters from 1902 to 1908. "What matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now."

Fun book, about the assorted bums, artists and whores of Monterey, California during the Great Depression.

Really enjoyed this one. Funny and insightful look at the America of 1960. Mostly a light hearted account, although the sections on the South were heartbreaking.

I enjoyed this book, but the movie was sublime! Still good though.

"It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things ... with immense, even startling power. That's the kind of writing that interests me." Hear, hear Mr Carver!