I usually prefer black olives but since there aren’t many in Maine, I guess this white one will do. I thought the characters and stories in this were really good and most were quite touching, but occasionally maudlin and drawn with too heavy a hand. My favorite stories were the ones in which white O...
The stories in this book really pull you into this town. I like how they are all connected and you sometimes go back to characters you heard about in other stories. Olive Kitteridge is the connection in all of the stories, but, in my opinion, the least likable character in the entire book. Seriously...
Olive Kitteredge is a collection of stories that constitute a novel. They are not as closely woven together as the multigenerational tales in works by Louise Erdrich, another writer who likes to collect small parts into a larger whole, but Strout has, in telling stories of many characters, put toget...
I guess when I heard this book had won the Pulitzer prize, I felt like I had to read it.I actually enjoyed the little stories, and the lessons that they told. But I didn't feel like the stories melded much into any greater message that made any sense to me. There did seem to be a lack of consisten...
A friend recommended this book to me and I wasn't sure it was going to be my thing, I generally am not a big fan of short stories, but as it turns out this isn't a collection of separate short stories but more a collection of connected stories (Olive Kitterigdge being the character that ties them al...
This book tells the story of a small New England town. Through a collection of "vignettes", each one detailing an episode in the life of a person or family living in this small coastal town over three generations, allowing us some insight into the life of Olive herself. The tie binding them together...
Olive Kitteridge appears in every story in this book, though she is generally not the main character. What a brilliant book! I loved the close examination of people and their relationships within a small town. A book I’m encouraging everyone I meet to read.
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