by Alice Munro
Recommended by Cheryl Strayed
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Munro's Lives of Girls and Women unfolds as a series of linked episodes following Del Jordan's coming-of-age on a rural Ontario fox farm. The prose favors close observation and small-town eccentricities. Its useful part is a granular, reflective portrait of a girl testing social rules; the character moments are sharply drawn. The episodic shape resists traditional plot momentum, so readers expecting a driving narrative or clear resolutions may find repetitions and digressions that slow the pace.
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The only novel from Alice Munro awardwinning author of The Love of a Good Woman is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940s.Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are a...
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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