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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

Elizabeth Strout

Start date: May 15, 2015

Discussion: . Week 18: Pulitzer Book

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. Week 18: Pulitzer Book

* Week 18: Progress Post
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Dec 01, 2020 Sarah Koehler rated it did not like it · review of another edition

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I wanted to like this... but I just.... didn’t. Olive is a crabby old woman with no endearing qualities like Ove or Arthur Truluv. And the plot is meaningless, though I get what Steout was doing by making Olive the thread which flows through each chapter. But I just don’t care about any of these people. I liked Henry the best and now he’s just laying in bed, the victim of a stoke, and Olive is shitty to him. She’s shitty to everyone. No thanks. Once again, a Pulitzer Prize winner is completely d ...more

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Mar 18, 2018 Shirley rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I do love Elizabeth Strout's writing. It is very elegant and not only does she have great insight into relationships, particularly those within the family, but she tells a good story.

However, around half way through, I found that I started to lose interest in this book. Rather than one novel, this is a set of interconnected stories set in small town America. But the tone of each story was so similar and so grey. Grey is fine if you have some contrast, but the book felt so monotone that, for me, ...more

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