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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19636.I_Know_Some_Things_Stories_About_Childhood_by_Contemporary_Writers?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="I Know Some Things: Stories About Childhood by Contemporary Writers" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1167271897m/19636.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19636.I_Know_Some_Things_Stories_About_Childhood_by_Contemporary_Writers?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">I Know Some Things: Stories About Childhood by Contemporary Writers</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11746.Lorrie_Moore">Lorrie Moore</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21930163?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>Like stories dealing with geriatrics, I have a strong aversion to those generally categorized as "coming-of-age." I don't know why. Maybe I've read so many of both. Which would mean that I've read a lot of really bad ones--those that attempt to take gratuitous tugs at my heart strings. But the stories in this anthology are examples of "coming-of-age" at its very finest. I appreciated the craft in all of them, enjoyed most of them and really loved: "Gryphon" by Charles Baxter, "Gorilla, My Love" by Toni Cade Bambara, "The Point" by Charles D'Ambrosio, Jr., and "The Turkey Season" by Alice Munro. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/626378?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>