I read Olive Kitteridge in the days before the hospital & just after the surgery.  Series of linked stories that I really liked. Loved the linked stories in this book, they were far less gimmicky than I usually find that structure to be. The writing was subtle and insightful without being obtrusive or in-your-face intellectual. It's been a long time since I've read a story where ...

... Olive Kitterridge, the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, by Elizabeth Strout. I read this book about 9 months ago for ... at the end of this post.) On to our discussion. I began with the following quote from Strout (which I got from the NoveList book discussion guide for the book) I ... the townspeople.This last comment led us to discuss the format. Strout wrote Olive Kitteridge as 13 linked stories. ...

... Stories by Steven Millhauser Resistance by Owen Sheers Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout The Ginseng Hunter by Jeff Talarigo NON-FICTION The Bin-Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century by Steve Coll ... The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed ...

... same day another lady at work told me she was reading that same exact book and I decided that was a sign enough for me so I went to add it to my Amazon.com list and noticed the novel was by author Elizabeth Strout, who wrote one of my favorite all-time books, Amy and Isabelle. I loved that book so much, and now I'm looking forward to this new one. A few ...

... here. More Michael Chabon. I haven't been into one author this much for ages! Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout. This was good, really good, but I did wonder why it was given a Pulitzer. It just wasn't that good. It didn't break new ground for me. Company of Liars: A Novel, by Karen Maitland. Ye olde bleake medieval ...

I have been wanting to read this book for a while and finally got around to it. Abide With Me, also by Elizabeth Strout, is an amazing book that I read a few years ago. Well, this one did not live up to my expectations. Ms. Strout is an amazing writer. She could probably make doing laundry sound interesting. But other than that, this book left me ...

... , and I found a cheap copy at Better World Books. Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge. I now have a signed copy of the ... This book is selections of Carlyle’s letters. I came across Carlyle in an Elizabeth Hardwick essay and have heard a couple references to her ... 8217;m slowly rereading Woolf’s major works, and this one is up next. Elizabeth George’s Payment in Blood. This is ...

... with. My favorite poem was "Violin," but maybe I was looking for optimism. 102. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (270 pgs) Olive is difficult, moody, and opinionated; also observant, direct, and caring in her own way. Strout presents her through a variety of lenses in a grouping of short stories, all directly or indirectly tied to the ...

... China by J. Maarten Troost Goldengrove by Francine ProseYear of Pleasures by Elizabeth BergThe Actor and the Housewife by Shannon Hale - I never would have ... too Deseret Bookish. She succeeded but the story was still trite. Books that were given at least fifty pages of my time but went unfinished: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni I'm Down ...

... Sarah Sullivan wrote about this sort of thing in the Tollbooth last June in a post titled Small Whitecaps and Wild Rugosa. Sarah described how in Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout portrays the sound of the tide rushing in over rocks. Sarah noted that the rumbling water reflects the point of view character's inner turbulence. Using ...