I took my time to read this collection of short stories - at first because I was simultaneously reading [b:Suttree|394469|Suttree|Cormac McCarthy|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413102s/394469.jpg|1196119], but then because every time I finished a story I needed time to process it. The plots, the characters - they all stayed with me for hours, then days after I read them. Yesterday I finished the last story, "Powers" and today in my commute I'm still thinking about it.

The stories work well together, too, and I loved them all; there wasn't a story I dismissed. Perhaps my favourite, or the one that garnered the most reaction and staying power with me was one called "Silence." I could probably sit down with someone else who's read it, over coffee, and dissect it together for over an hour. The story itself is only a few pages.

I'll be looking into reading more Munro, as this was my first foray into her writing.