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My Best Stories by Alice Munro
4.0

Read in chunks, between other books, which I think is a good thing, since the stories ended up having a feeling of sameness that I think would only have been exacerbated by back to back to back reading.
Many of the individual stories were gems, but a few left me flat. That's the nature of an anthology, though. In some cases, I found the protagonist's motivations or actions to be a little inconsistent, and that threw me out of the stories a little bit.
Overall, though, the Munro writes beautifully, the language a joy to read, and each story brings something, some insight, to the reader.