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I loved this book and give it 5 stars. I can't remember ever finishing a book and thinking I would be interested in reading it again, but this is one of those for me. Elizabeth Strout's style flows easily so that reaching into the meaning behind the words is almost effortless. I say almost effortless because there is a lot here. Little to no plot, it's all characterization. Olive Kitteridge is a many-layered character, but the others (and there are many) are not 2-dimensional.
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I really liked this book which was more a collection of lightly connected short stories than a novel in the traditional sense. I liked Olive's forthrighness. You always knew where you stood with her, if it wasn't always comfortable. I thought that the location in Maine was one of th unsung stars of the book. It makes me want to go out for a visit.
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Meet Olive Kitteridge. She is a middle-aged retired school teacher who resides in the small fictional town of Crosby, Maine. Olive Kitteridge is a book of interconnected stories. From her longtime Pharmacist husband Harvey Kitteridge, her emotionally distant son Christopher to her close friend Betty and some mere acquaintances, the short stories all have Olive in common. You get both the way others see Olive as well as an intimate look at how Olive witnesses the world and how she interacts. You
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Small town people who may know too much about each other-pharmacist, teacher, nurse, minister's daughter--estrangement, loneliness, and death. Bleak, haunting.
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Oct 09, 2009
Joanna
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it was amazing
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I loved these stories despite the overall depressing nature of the book. This is one of the few novels in short stories that works on both levels -- each of the stories works as a stand alone story, but there is also character development and history across the stories that holds it together as a novel. I thought the best story was the first one, but many of the others were also quite compelling. I wish there had been a story from the perspective of Olive's son, Christopher. He seemed to be the
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I loved this book! It was so beautifully written and I loved every single one of the individual stories. The only thing I didn't like about the book is that each of the stories keeps you wanting more, at the end of each story I didn't want it to end, however, the next story was always so good and drew me in so much I soon forgot about the last. And this continued throughout the whole book, until the last story, which I thought was wrapped up so beautifully that I felt satisfied with the book ove
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Sep 27, 2009
Erin (NY)
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liked it
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I wasn't a big fan. i do not like short stories, although this collection was better than many others. I did like the fact that Olive Kitteridge made an appearance in almost every story. It went very slowly for me, because once one story was finished, I was very reluctant to pick up the next one.
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May 25, 2009
Kat (A Journey In Reading)
marked it as to-read
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Nov 13, 2009
Nick
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really liked it
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Oct 13, 2013
Dana Arbelaez
marked it as to-read
Jun 11, 2015
Lindsay
marked it as to-read
Sep 08, 2020
Marie
marked it as library
