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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver
Read 12/31/08

I talk about reading with a co-worker, and this was an author he recommenced. It is a collection of short stories. Each story seems to leave as much unsaid as it tells, and the real story seems to be in what they don't say. Most of the stories are a single incident.. so it is almost as if you are sitting in on a conversation and you have to fill in the gaps in what is said. The stories make you think, and many of them are sad... or perhaps defeated is a better word. May about damaged relationships... looking back on them... overall a great book.
Since this was short stories I have been reading this book here and there since fall. When I finished my other book last night I read the last few stories in this collection.