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I write this with tears in my eyes. WONDER was a great read from cover to cover that proves how far acts of kindness, no matter how small, really go.
Narrative voice true to the age of the characters and situations were believable.
Narrative voice true to the age of the characters and situations were believable.
This is exactly what I needed when I needed it. Mari simultaneously intertwines personal anecdotes with life advice and humor, and of course her wonderful illustrations. I will absolutely be referring back to this one often.
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories
Langston Hughes, John Cheever, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Washington Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Willa Cather, Henry James, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Eudora Welty, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Raymond Carver, Edith Wharton, Bernard Malamud, Katherine Anne Porter, William Carlos Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
an anthology of "canon" literature full of over-read, over-analyzed short stories. needed it for a college course.
hey Catherine M maybe try to be less judgmental of other people's experiences and preferences when comparing them to your own. not everyone likes what you like. hated this, had to read it for a college course, do not recommend.
As a recent college grad, I appreciate Kitcheners aim to illustrate both the struggles and successes of young women from all walks of life that come with the transition to post-grad. This book made me feel validated in my vulnerability and confusion and lack of a road-map to my life, and that I will figure something out that works for me.
