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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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This is one that will stay on my mind. I expected it to be a comfortable portrait of small town life, and it's not comfortable at all. It's prickly.
Olive is a complex and difficult character, and we see her from multiple points of view at different times in her life from I guess about age 40 onwards. Sometimes it's her own point of view, but more often she crops up in a story that's mainly about someone else’s crisis. There aren’t many happy endings in these stories, but they felt true to human ...more
Olive is a complex and difficult character, and we see her from multiple points of view at different times in her life from I guess about age 40 onwards. Sometimes it's her own point of view, but more often she crops up in a story that's mainly about someone else’s crisis. There aren’t many happy endings in these stories, but they felt true to human ...more
I found this book hard to push through and would dread reading it at points. The changing of storyline was hard to follow and it took me a while to catch on. I did appreciate that the book takes the reader into the world and struggles of many different characters, and it forces you to gain perspective and perhaps empathy for a situation you yourself haven’t been in. Also makes you consider the impact that one person can have on so many others. I found Olive very unlikeable at first but towards t
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This book was totally blah...sheesh...I kept having to reread because I just could not focus on it. Ugh
Jan 03, 2012
Andrés Santiago
marked it as to-read
Jun 08, 2012
Ariel
marked it as to-read-overdrive
Jan 03, 2015
Jenni Ingold
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Feb 20, 2015
Vix
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Aug 14, 2017
Jen from Quebec :0)
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Dec 16, 2019
Fantus
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Jul 19, 2020
☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣
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