Read it for book club; otherwise I would never have finished it. I can appreciate the author's talent, and would probably appreciate it even more if I took time to savor the words, but I found I just didn't want to spend more time with this book. The themes were all very sad... hopeless, unfulfilled, frustrated, often sick or dying characters just left me depressed. This was the second Munro collection I tried, and I just don't enjoy reading her, but the club discussion was interesting.

Her protagonists are whiny, whiny, whiny.