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Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
By Jenn · 25 posts · 78 views
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Olive Kitteridge is a book with many stories about the inhabitants of a small town who in some way or another have a connection to Olive. Olive is a cranky, judgmental woman who needs to mind her own business more than she does. Like most people, however, Olive just wants what most people want - to be loved, accepted and to have more control of the events that occur around her.
I highly recommend this book, because Strout takes many different threads and is able to weave them into one overall coh ...more
I highly recommend this book, because Strout takes many different threads and is able to weave them into one overall coh ...more
Years ago, I had a co-worker I bickered with constantly, leading a mutual friend to predict that I was going to evolve over time into Shirley MacLaine's character from Steel Magnolias. She was probably right, as I've waited my whole life to have a reason to say some variation on, "Goddamn it, I AM pleasant! I saw Drum Eaton at the Piggly Wiggly the other day and I smiled at the son of a bitch!"
I guess what I'm trying to say is I was therefore probably destined to love Olive Kitteridge, the chara ...more
I guess what I'm trying to say is I was therefore probably destined to love Olive Kitteridge, the chara ...more
OK, since 3 stars denotes that I "like it," that's the rating I went with for this book. It's actually a hard book for me to rate. It was a good enough read, but it just never grabbed me like I wanted it to. Olive was a hard character to get close to.
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This book broke my heart in all the best possible ways. Strout's observations about marriage, parenting, and aging are so character-specific and yet so universal. Sometimes a book is well-lauded for a reason. Believe the hype.
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I want to rate this one 3.5 stars, but went with the 3 instead of the 4 because it's almost, but not quite, 4 for me. I enjoyed the writing style of this author and would have been content with a traditional, linear story about Olive, but instead this is told using the lives of people around her and how she interplays in their lives, sometimes hardly at all, if only in passing. But overall the chapter stories links together to provide a story about Olive. Sometimes I didn't like her, sometimes I
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What a sad, sweet book. I really enjoyed the 13 stories which centered around Olive Kittering. I didn't like Olive in the beginning but by the end, she had grown on me. This one will stay with me for awhile.
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The characters in this book were interesting and overall the story was well written. I didn't really enjoy the format. The books consists, essentially, of a series of short stories surrounding the life of the main character. I love stand alone short stories but reading a series like didn't really work for me. Too disjointed, difficult to get in the grove and left me wanting for more depth.
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Aug 16, 2010
Bronwyn
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Mar 20, 2012
jenna Hudrlik
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Stormnangel
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Alan
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