Olive Kettridge by Elizabeth Strout13 stories that are linked together by a teacher who is married to a pharmacist.Love that these stories are situated in Maine. Their everyday life and the problemsthey each have. Stories I like the best are the ones where the weather and landscape is described in s...
Interwoven glimpses into the lives of people in a small Maine town, over a period of about 40 years. Most of the people are older and coping with the effects of age. I would guess that some people might find the stories depressing, but I didn't. While there was not a lot of outright joy, there was t...
The authorBorn in Portland, Maine Elizabeth Strout grew up in small towns in Maine and New Hampshire. She attended Bates College and graduated with a degree in English in 1977. At Syracuse University College she earned her law degree along with a Certificate in Gerontology. She started working in Le...
If I could use one word to describe this book, it would probably be “boring.” “Awkward” is a close runner-up. I think Elizabeth Strout must be the type of person who is less of the entertainment school of writing and more of the vitamins school of writing. But, I am left wondering what nutritiona...
This was an okay read for me. I liked the concept of the multiple, interconnected stories - almost all of which involve the "main" characters, but I have to admit I didn't much care for Olive herself. A previous reviewer here mentioned we all know at least one Olive, and I have known a few. That mig...
This did not appear to be my cup of tea at all. A short-story collection about a cranky old lady, by an author I was not aware of. Yet there was that Pulitzer Prize logo on the cover, and I am a sucker for award winners.What a delightful surprise! Ms. Strout is a wonderful writer, and this collectio...
workaday paper readLife is at times gloomy and I read to escape, either to learn something or to laugh at something absurd. As beautifully as this is written the subject matter starts off sad and then spirals down the plughole into pathological depression. I am left feeling guilty for being middle-a...
This is a book of perfect sentences. One right after the other pulls you along so that it's not even so much the story itself that's intriguing, it's the way Strout constructs her words to describe the ups and downs of peoples' lives. Needless to say, the writing is phenomenal. Many have commented t...
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