Friday, October 7, 2016

A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

See, I hate this. I know I read this within the last five or so years. Looking up the plot summaries of many of the stories, I recall their general arcs, more or less. Some of them clearly made no impression whatsoever, but I did read the book. Yet, I didn't record it at the time, and my memory of the stories is considerably fuzzier than usual, much like Dear Life by Alice Munro, which I also had to enter years later after vaguely recalling that I had read it but never recorded doing so. Yes, I do find short story collections harder than usual to get through, unless listened to as audiobooks, but I have no justification for either my bad memory of these two or failure to make an entry.