Mi Vida Querida / Dear Life : (Dear Life, Spanish-Language) (Paperback)

from steve02476

Nice stories, very humane, but a little sad. Life in rural Canada mid-century.

from RandyMetcalfe

Almost any story you choose to read by Alice Munro will better than almost any other story you might have read, even those by Alice Munro. There is something lulling in the cadence of her sentences, her observational choices, her sudden turns that are not turns at all. Something that makes you th...

from Mike-L

This isn't the type of book I would normally be compelled to read. If you're not familiar with Alice Munro's work (as I wasn't) the official blurb doesn't really give much of an idea as to what it's about. There's a reason for that, the short stories contained within Dear Life are hard to describ...

from steller0707

Dear life, as in "holding on for ..." And, like this expression, many of the stories here are set in times when it was common to hear it. In that way, these stories feel nostalgic. Although I remember this expression from childhood - I can hear it even now - I wonder if it evokes the same feeling...

from Laurenbdavis

Quintessential Munro. This book may well be her last. Certainly the four autobiographical stories at the end of the book seem to hint at this. Perhaps it is the idea she will retire now, or something deeper in the stories, but I admit to feeling terribly sad at the end of the book. The tone here ...