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I'm guessing because Olive Kitteridge is the most complex character in this book, this is why the book is named after her. Her complexity helps explain her unpleasantness, and inspires more sympathy from me, the reader.
This book is a series of vignettes. Some characters I wanted to know more about, but it never happened because once their chapter was finished, they disappeared.
Olive is the character that ties all the vignettes together.
This book does well by going into the mind of a person - ...more
This book is a series of vignettes. Some characters I wanted to know more about, but it never happened because once their chapter was finished, they disappeared.
Olive is the character that ties all the vignettes together.
This book does well by going into the mind of a person - ...more
More like 4.5. This is a seriously depressing book as many people have said - but I thoroughly appreciated it. The writing is brilliant and I liked the fact that the stories all took place in relation to the people Olive Kitteridge knew (and including her and her family of course). There are 1 or 2 stories that I didn't like as much as the others - like The Piano Player and Winter Concert, which both seemed a little random - but all in all, this is one of the most interesting short story collect
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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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Highly recommended for anyone that values excellent, straightforward writing and enjoys stories with multiple narrators and interrelated story lines.
Jan 03, 2012
Andrés Santiago
marked it as to-read
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Meghan
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Linda
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Chinook
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Lindsay
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Debbie Hoffman
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Jan 23, 2018
Katie
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it was amazing
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