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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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Jan 03, 2017
Mila
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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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