I group these two books together because they are both collections of short stories. I have not read very many short stories before this year, and it has been a little difficult to get used to. The style used for a short story is quite different than that for a novel. It made me rather uncomfortable at first. However, now that I am a little more used to the short story, I have been able to enjoy them.
The first collection I read was "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor. I can't say that I overly enjoyed her writing, but by the end of the book I started to get used to it. One thing that I immediately liked about it was that it's easy to read a story and then put the book down. When I read novels I tend to keep reading and reading, no matter how late it gets. Since reading Flannery O'Connor's biography, knowing her background has also made her short stories make more sense and gave me a better understanding for her writing.
The second collection that I read was "The Love of a Good Woman" by Alice Munro. I enjoyed her stories more. There were a couple that really struck me, particularly the story called "The Children Stay" about the process/rationalizations a woman goes through when leaving her husband and two young children for a short-lived affair.
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