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The Love of a Good Woman
The Love of a Good Woman | Alice Munro
All of these eight wonderful stories are about what people will do for love, and the unexpected routes their passion will force them to take. An old landlady in Vancouver who alarms the just-married narrator with her prim advice about married life and the peculiar threat of a china cabinet that must be washed once a month is shown to have conspired when young in a crime of passion. A young mother, at the mercy of the radiant explosion that comes when she thinks of her secret life, abandons her baby and four-year old to be with her lover in the story The Children Stay. A gruff old country doctor in the 1960s is discovered by his daughter to be helping desperate women, his special patients. An impetuous young woman meets a visiting Indian student and conceives on a train from Vancouver to Toronto because of the fact that you couldnt get condoms around the Calgary station, not for love or money. An Ontario farm wifes affair drives her husband to commit a murder; its discovery, years later, will act as a negotiating point for a new, presumably satisfactory, marriage. The book is clear-eyed about the imperfections of marriage, the clutter of our emotional lives, and the impermanence of love: Not that that was the end. For we did make up. But we didnt forgive each other. Even the shared memories of earlier times prove to be a minefield, and many of the stories track the changes that time brings over generations to families, lovers, and even to friends who share old, intimate secrets about the prostration of love. As always these stories by Alice Munro are shot through with humour, and are as rich as novels. As always the characters in the stories are easily, sometimes uncomfortably, recognizable as people like us. One quote summarizes the delightful surprises that await the reader: Did you ever think that peoples lives could be like that and end up like this? Well, they can. From the Hardcover edition.
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TheBookHippie
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@Billypar #AuldLangSpine

This was lovely!!! I very much enjoyed it. I will definitely be reading more of her work! ♥️💃🏽

Billypar Glad you liked it! This was the podcast episode that made me read it - they discussed "Save the Reaper": https://open.spotify.com/episode/3m2gh77SIlbjKLpZ3NjETe?si=xbcm0r3JR_SV6ADZ4BENZ... 2mo
TheBookHippie @Billypar oh yay! Thx I listen to podcast whilst I‘m on the treadmill! 2mo
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JacqMac My mom did this. And she loved it so much. She might have helped me learn love reading. 3mo
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TheBookHippie
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#AuldLangSpine
Me

20 Things
1. Coffee is Life.
2. Growing up I wanted to be a nun. They could do social justice work, lived in community and didn‘t have to be married.
3. I‘ve actively protested my entire life.
4. Reading saved my life. I love books.
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TheBookHippie 5. I have mentored at risk youth ages 4-24 for 36 years. I was a volunteer doula for teen moms for 28 years. 314 births. I should also say I‘m pro abortion as a choice and have walked that journey with teens as well as young women.
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TheBookHippie 6. I was a practicing LPN for 20 years in locked units for senility/Alzheimer dear elderly and group homes for violent men. I also did home nursing for veterans and HIV patients in the late 1980s.
7. I love M&Ms
8. I‘m a foodie and I cook constantly.
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TheBookHippie 9. I love music it‘s always on in my house. (Not todays popcountry-just no)
10. The most loved woman in my life was my Grandma.
11. The love of my life is a city- Chicago
12. I journal everyday
13. I write poetry
14. I love plants
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TheBookHippie 15. I loathe doing dishes. Loathe as I‘d rather clean up puke or blood.
16. I have a DIVA English bulldog Miss Winifred aka Winnie
17. My daughter Rachael & son Elijah are an entire school experience apart. She went to college I had a baby.
18. My grandson JacksonNathan is 9.
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TheBookHippie 19. We are multifaith in my family.
20. I don‘t believe in marriage, but I am legally married to my Mr BookHippie, we have passed three decades and are in our fourth decade together. He is the steadying calm rock to my wild.
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monalyisha I love “This is a reminder to drink a cup of coffee.” Such a good antithesis to all of those healthy reminders to hydrate! 😅 And something I‘m way more likely to do. 😜 3mo
TheBookHippie @monalyisha Hydration is hydration ✌🏼☕️ 3mo
Billypar This list is amazing! Great to see your commitment to social justice, healthcare, and family, not to mention coffee, poetry, music, and cooking - all good stuff 🙂 3mo
TheBookHippie @Billypar ♥️ Comes with a ton of hatred but I wouldn‘t have it any other way. 🙃✌🏼 (edited) 3mo
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TheBookHippie
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#AuldLangSpine
Tagged book is ordered up at the library !
I‘ve read 4,6,8,11,17,19,20. 🙃

Billypar Greetings! I'm Vinny - very nice to meet you and see your best of 2023 list. It looks like we have similar book tastes: since you've read a few already, let me know if I can suggest any others or feel free to friend me on Goodreads if you use it: https://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?invite_token=NDZkZGI4YzYtMTcwOC00MDRlLWJmMjEt... 3mo
Billypar Hope you like this Munro collection: I read it after a hearing a discussion of one story (Save the Reaper) on a podcast. That one is bonkers, but I loved it. 3mo
TheBookHippie @Billypar I love short stories. Elizabeth Hardwick is my new favorite. I‘ve been a long time Zadie fan I‘ve read everything she‘s written as well as Jesmyn‘s works. I read How the Word is Passed as an ARC am currently reading his latest book. I have to read Lord of the Flies every year with students 🤣😵‍💫🤦🏻‍♀️. I‘m on Goodreads I use it rarely, but I‘ll go check yours out. Good to meet ya, I‘m Christine. 3mo
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TheBookHippie @Billypar I plan to read Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong next. Looks good!
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merelybookish What a great list! @billypar has great taste. 3mo
Billypar Even though I enjoyed LotF, I think I might end up hating just about any book I had to teach every year! 😆 3mo
Billypar Poetry is still so new for me, but some aspects of the Vuong collection reminded me of two other favorites in my early dabblings: Natalie Diaz and Carolyn Forché. 3mo
Billypar @merelybookish 😳 - if that's true, I have only the people on this app to thank! 😉 3mo
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#two4tuesday @TheSpineView
(1) Yes. I read The Love of a Good Woman, it had 8 stories, all about women, with a woman on the cover.
(2) No, somebody recommended it to me. But sometimes the cover does influence me.

Thanks for the tag @Bklover ☺️

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 2y
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eeclayton
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Mehso-so

It's not the book, it's me. It's that none of the stories really carried me away. The character studies were good, the tensions were real, and some scenes were really powerful. And still I put the book down and felt like nothing had happened to me.

This was my #bookspin for May @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y
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ephemeralwaltz
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Kalalalatja Very pretty! 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💗💗💗 5y
batsy That Ariel cover ❣️ 5y
ephemeralwaltz @batsy it's such a pretty edition! 🖤 5y
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candority
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This Alice Munro boxset was only $10 (usually $50) at Chapters!

MommyWantsToReadHerBook That's so beautiful - jealous! 💜 Alice Munro 6y
Bry Very tempting! 6y
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ephemeralwaltz
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CAGirlReading Loved this! 7y
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CAGirlReading
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Probably my favorite Alice Munro collection to date, I liked this selection of stories even better than Runaway. It's still remarkable to me how well she develops her characters and crafts such compelling stories in only 50 or so pages. Definitely worth a read ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Lcsmcat Munro is amazing! 7y
ephemeralwaltz I loved this! I have the same edition and I'm so in love with the cover❤ 7y
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GatheringBooks
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#AprilBookShowers Day 14: #TitleWithGood - I have a collection of Alice Munro novels that I haven't even started reading yet.

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ephemeralwaltz
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Always have a pile of bookmarks nearby! 😂🙌🏻📚 #readjanuary #readingequipment

LeahBergen Never too many bookmarks! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
RealLifeReading 🙌🙌 7y
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ephemeralwaltz
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I don't normally read short stories but I wanted to get a taste of Munro last year so this was my first by her! I immediately read "Dear Life" afterwards. Magical ?? As you can see, I'm a sucker for pretty covers!
#shortstories for #booktober day 17 ?
@RealLifeReading

Marchpane Very nice photo! 7y
ephemeralwaltz @Marchpane thank you!😁 7y
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Lisacarlson

What did this mean? Only that that he had begun the private work of storing and secreting, deciding on his own what should be preserved and how, and what these things were going to mean to him, in his unknown future.

shawnmooney Alice Munro is the greatest writer alive! 8y
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Lisacarlson
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Never enough Munro.

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