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... list either. I read so many good books this year that it's just amazing. We have some favorites in common: The Lacuna, Olive Kitteridge , The Glass Castle, Cutting for Stone, Wolf Hall, and The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
... Kingsolver
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
Krik? Krak! - Edwidge Danticat
Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Top 5 Non-fiction:
The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, A ...
...
The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Home by Marilynne Robinson
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
In non-fiction I remember that I liked
The House of Rothschild by Niall Ferguson
Robert
... when I was in Jr. High. Fantastic book!
5. The Hunger Games Creepy and disturbing. I also couldn't put it down.
6. Olive Kitteridge I liked it and I didn't. Very depressing, but also had some interesting and uplifting stories that made it possible to continue on.
7. Dear John Not a ...
My mom bought my Wolf Hall, my mother-in-law got me The Lacuna, and my husband bought me Waiting for Columbus and Olive Kitteridge .
From my SantathingerI got Good Omens, The Red Tent, and Academy X.
Unfortunately I can't just sit down and read them all in a row because of ...
The Christmas haul has been:
Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel
yay!
Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Lute Player by Norah Lofts
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
The Serpent's Daughter by Suzanne Arruda
The Leopard's Prey by Suzanne Arruda
In Great Waters by Kit Whitfield
... here goes...
Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis*
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta*
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard*
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout*
Paris Review Interviews, I edited by Philip Gourevitch*
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson
Wintergirls ...
I'll start with my favourites from 2009, in no particular order.
1. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2. Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott
3. Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
4. The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
5. Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
6. The Help ...
Olive Kitteridge . Can't believe it sat in my TBR pile so long; it's excellent!
... useful.
>287 - Terri - I'm glad you stopped by! I'll be interested to hear how you and your book discussion group like Olive Kitteridge . I think it is one of those books that should generate a lot of discussion!
... you up. You've read some really great books since I stopped by last! I was particularly interested in your comments on Olive Kitteridge , as our book discussion group at the library is reading it for January.
Abide with Me sounds very good, too. I really must read that one!
In approximate order read:
Run, Ann Patchett
*The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
*Olive Kitteridge , Elizabeth Strout
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer
*The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg La ...
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#75 - Just finished Olive Kitteridge and find myself missing the world of Olive and the fellow inhabitants of Crosby, Maine. This was an enjoyable and thought provoking look at peoples lives, particularly the relationships of older people. While Olive is not the most sympathetic of characters ...
... a pain, because then I have to log back in here, but it works. Maybe someone else has an easier idea?
ETA: I loved Olive Kitteridge !
... Glinda are at university.
I, too, loved Prodigal Summer. However, I think I might be the only person that didn't love Olive Kitteridge . I thought it was okay, but was certainly not rapturous about it, although I would read another book by her. Amy and Isabelle, which someone mentioned ...
... else have trouble getting the ticker to change? I can't update it and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
I finished Olive Kitteridge last night. Very good.
... Munro*
Galore by Michael Crummey
Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden*
Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth*
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Girls by Lori Lansens
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
The German Mujahid by Boualem Sansal
How to Paint a ...
Hi Ruth - Thanks for the reminder about Amy and Isabelle. Like Mark, I've meant to read it since I finished Olive . Great review!!
... beckoning me, and so are a couple of children's books. At the same time, though, I'm getting some pretty strong calls from Olive Kitteridge , 2 more Louise Penny novels, and a Native American book --all acquired since September.
I'm getting really eager to start the 1010, too, but I'm ...
... of the older female protagonist in the novel, the Mother, Isabelle. As did her other most recent female "force of nature", Olive Kitteridge she came to trust and know herself. Excellent book. Five stars.
See review: http://www.librarything.com/work/5217
Happy reading during all of the Holi ...
... the older female protagonist in the novel, the mother, Isabelle.
As did her other most recent female "force of nature", Olive Kitteridge she came to trust and know herself.
The other characters are so fully realized, I felt as though I knew these people pretty well. Terrific writing ...
... ol' buddy ol' pal. Don't know anything about Cutting for Stone, but I loved Half Broke Horses. Lark and Termite and Olive Kitteridge are on my family Christmas wish list, so I have my fingers crossed that I will have the chance to read them soon. I just got a box in the mail from Powell' ...
... too.
Well into (actually about to finish up) Amy and Isabelle: A novel written by Elizabeth Strout who also wrote Olive Kitteridge and Abide With Me.
Tired, but, hanging in there. No, Stasia, the drugs I'm on right now don't make my thinking fuzzy, but the constant stress of being ...
... will be right at the top (I'm barely halfway thru it!) and I'm right there with you on Lark and Termite and then I have Olive Kitteridge to contend with! Whew! BTW, I've only just started listening to books, 98% I'm reading the sacred pages, the preferred way!
Stasia- It looks like a strong ...
"I told you. Because you were nice enough to send that note."
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
"Do you think about her?"
... Mr. Head Deacon Claptrap Nice Guy, expect me to give up my Sunday mornings and go sti among a bunch of snot-wots!"
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
"How can I help you today?"
"I don't know. I've wondered," Henry admitted.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout
"Where's she going to find another husband in this tiny town?" Olive asked.
I started Olive Kitteridge last night, encouraged by the many good things I've read about it on LT. I like that my first impression of her was not good. It'll be interesting to see how she grows.
... past the pony stage, books seem like a good bet.
I finished The Vorkosigan Companion last night, and have moved on to Olive Kitteridge .
I enjoy your book comments, Milda, and have starred your thread. Olive Kitteridge was a special book for me as well. I was lucky enough to receive it as an Early Reviewer. I liked Abide With Me, but it preceded Olive. I think when one has an affinity for a book, then others can pale in ...
#41 Sorry you didn't enjoy Abide with Me; I haven't read that one, but I loved Olive myself, and thought Amy and Isabelle,which I read shortly afterward, was very good too.
I loved Olive Kitteridge so much that I was hoping to enjoy #54 Abide With Me by Elizabeth Strout too. Halfway or more through, I gave up and skimmed the rest. Too bad.
But today I had a treat. My daughter's volleyball tournament lasted from 8am to 7pm with so many breaks in between ...
... Michigan - so very different that In Other Rooms which was set in Pakistan and were connected (not quite as connected as Olive Kitteridge was, but connected nonetheless).
Sometimes I wonder if it's fair to judge a collection of short fiction against a novel...
... Abide with Me by Elizabeth Strout this year and liked it a lot. I checked it out while I was on the waiting list for Olive Kitteridge .
I've added Olive Kitteridge and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running to my TBR. I'm number 314 in line at the library for Olive Kitteridge so maybe I'll get to it sometime in 2010 or 2011 :-)
... A Refugee Team, an American Town - Warren St. John
October:
Fiction - TIE
Still Life - Louise Penny
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Nonfiction - Writing for Scholarly Publication - Anne Sigismund Huff
ETA:
November:
Fiction - TIE
Wolf Hall - Hill ...
Ha! Abide With Me is already on my list! Like Mark, I loved Olive Kitteridge so the minute I heard about another book, it went onto the list. One that I don't have to add. I'm safe until you read another book. Perhaps you should just routinely send me books after you've read them...
... Death in the Family (Pulitzer Prize)
4. Palace of Desire (Nobel Prize)
5. The Namesake
6. Olive Kitteridge The Idea of Perfection (Orange Prize)
8. The Prince of West End Avenue (National Jewish Book Award)
9.
10.
Hey Linda- Nice review of Abide With Me! I was totally knocked out by Olive Kitteridge and I've wanted to explore her other works!
Olive Kitteridge
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christiguc in 50 Book Challenge : christiguc's 2009 reading catalog (Nov 1, 2009, 1:15pm)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
4/5 stars
... the years, I thought I'd check out the book selection. Lo and behold! Five books for $13.00, all in pristine condition.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
Astri ...
If I read Olive Kitteridge again, I'll probably like it much better now that I know it's supposed to be short stories. (The first time I read it, I thought it was a novel.)
ETA: I always liked Olive. She was flawed in ways that I could related to.
>179 - Thanks, Bonnie! Olive Kitteridge was a little hard to capture in a couple of paragraphs. There are so many perspectives in the book. I think I'll read it again soon.
>180 - Stasia - Nope, no stitches for Matt (thank goodness!). And I agree that seeing Olive from so many perspectives ...
... To A God Unknown by John Steinbeck
110. The Embers by Hyatt Bass
111. Bantam of the Opera by Mary Jane Auch
112. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
113. Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
114. Love Letters from Cell 92 by Bonhoeffer and Von Wedemeyer
115. Anne of Avonle ...
I loved Olive Kitteridge too. I identified a little too much with the grouchy ol' title character, I suppose, because I thought she was sweet.
Olive Kitteridge jumped right on my list of favorite books - I thought Strout so precise and economical with words yet so gifted at bringing the reader immediately into the life and challenges of the characters. I look forward to reading it a second time.
Olive Kitteridge is on my wishlist but its also on 288 other peoples wishlists so I might not get my hands on a copy for a while! I feel it will be one of these books I will have to buy in order to read, and finances don't allow that at the moment.
One day though. Thanks for the lovely review ...
... to have multiple stitches. I hope Matt did not have to go through that, the little heartbreaker :)
#176: Nice review of Olive Kitteridge , Amy. I loved the multiple points of view of Olive used in the novel. After all, no one person is really seen the same by any two people are they?
That was a good overview of Olive Kitteridge , Amy.
Linda - I borrowed Olive Kitteridge from my mom. She loved it, and I really liked it too. Hope you enjoy it!
Amy
It is coincidental that you posted a revew re. Olive Kitteridge . I obtained this book today from my local library. It was a long waiting list and finally, my name worked its way through the top.
Again, good luck with the tenure process.
Book #94 - Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout - Finished October 23, 2009
Through a collection of short stories, Elizabeth Strout introduces us to Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher living in the town of Crosby, Maine. Strout needs only a few, well-chosen words to give us crystal ...
I added Olive Kitteridge as a second book in my Maine category. I'm glad I read it, but I wasn't as fond of it as most people seem to be. I grew to like Olive, but the other characters got to be a bit much for me. I don't mind spending time with one miserable person, but when they're all ...
... Andrea Barrett ****
6. The Road Home by Rose Tremain ****
7. A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell *****
8. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout ****
9. The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston***
10. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse ****
11. Say You're One of Them ...
... Fever by Andrea Barrett
6. The Road Home by Rose Tremain
7. A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
8. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
9. The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston
10. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
11. Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpa ...
OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.
... how to help the young girl inside of me feel special. I plan to read her other two novels. I leap-frogged over them to read Olive Kitteridge first when it came my turn through the library reserve list! Glad you enjoyed them, I bet that I will, too.
>46 - Linda - you have on occasion left me ...
womansheart weighs in wonderfully on a Pulitzer Prize winner, Olive Kitteridge , presently on HR:
http://www.librarything.com/work/3782972/reviews/44976067
Ruthie- Excellent review of Olive ! You nailed it friend! Man, I love that book and that incredible title character!
Book # 69 - Olive Kitteridge -
I would not describe the reading of this book as pleasant in the sense that we often use that word to describe some of our reading. Instead, I wil say that some of the characters in this book, especially the protagonist, Olive, would be described by many people ...
>10 Ruth- I'm so glad you enjoyed Olive ! It was an absolute knock-out for me and will be right there battling for the top spot for the year!
>23: jessuncw- I hope you love Interpreter of Maladies as much as I do. She is an amazing writer! Let us know!
A life examined IS worth living.
Last night, or early this morning ... I finished reading Olive Kitteridge . I have had one of Elizabeth Strout's books in my TBR cyber stack for quite some time. I read so many positive comments about Olive that I leap-frogged over to this one, which won ...
... Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg
Two others came soooooo close:
1. The Land of Spices by Kate O'Brien and
2. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
I have read so many good books out of the 164 I have read so far this year. And several jumped out at me throughout the ...
... and that too has been excellent!
> jhedlund- Here's a fat ripe tomato for you! At least these don't hurt or make a mess! Olive is vying for best book of the year, IMHO!
>benitastrnad- I feel your pain, with my own howl of despair. At least we are not alone!
I'm bracing myself for all the tomatoes that will be coming at me, but I finished Olive Kitteridge last night and didn't love it. I liked it a lot, but given all the praise it's gotten on LT (not to mention the Pulitzer), it seems like a sacrilege that it won't make my "best of" books for this ...
Here is my review of Olive Kitteridge . I just started Jane Eyre and I'm hooked. I'm reading it for the 1001 Books category. Can't believe I've never read it before.
... now completed Category #3 - Children's/YA after finishing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tonight. I will also finish Olive Kitteridge as I only have one chapter to go. I enjoyed Olive, but wasn't over the moon about it the way so many other people here on LT were. Sigh. Still waiting ...
... and interesting library. I like it.
With love,
Ruth/womansheart
I have Cave Painters sitting just below Olive Kitteridge , my currently reading book. I will read the NYTimes article you referenced first, before reading the book.
toodles --- I miss the nice weather in Southe ...
... you today, as per usual, as you go about your busy life in ATL.
With love,
Ruthie
PS I'm in the midst of reading Olive Kitteridge . Good writing. Good characters. Wouldn't mind spending a long summer down there in Maine with these town folks.
Another recommended read is Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. This is a novel as a collection of short stories, each of which involves the character for whom the book is named. She's an old woman, retired school teacher, set in her ways, impatient, a flawed mother, an indifferent wife ...
I'm finishing up Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, which I am really enjoying.
I'm now a little more than halfway through Olive Kitteridge .
... I lost patience for teenage boy antics!). I did enjoy it. Wouldn’t read it again but it was worth finishing.
89. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Rating: 3.5
Everyone is raving about this book but I just didn’t love it. I tend to prefer plot driven novels as opposed to ...
September in review -
108. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
109. Storm Front by Jim Butcher
110. By These Ten Bones by Clare B. Dunkle
111. Perfect You by Elizabeth Scott
112. You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen
113. The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
114. Seeing ...
... Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and loved it. I finished Beowulf and basically feel pleased to have finally read it. I finished Olive Kitteridge and enjoyed getting to know a new memorable character. I am almost finished listening to Mercy by Jodi Picoult, and I am reading Housekeeping by ...
#73 - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle - *****
#74 - Beowulf by Anonymous - ***
#75 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - ****
Borders sent me a generous coupon, so on Saturday I brought home An Echo in the Bone and Olive Kitteridge because I've heard so much comment about it on LT.
... I'd pass it by in favor of other, better books. I seem to be in a rut of "good but not great" books lately. Next up is Olive Kitteridge . After all the praise it's gotten here on LT, I have high hopes. I really need a book that will knock it out of the park. Here's hoping Olive is it.
Just finished The Fiction Class which was okay. Finishable but not great otherwise. Next up is Olive Kitteridge . I've heard so much positive feedback on this book, and right now I feel like a really need a knockout. Fingers crossed!
... to serviceable than it was to great. So my favorites of the quarter are novels, all commendable without reservation:
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
Robert
The best of all book is Night Watch by Sara Waters
The Serpent's tale Ariana Franklin
Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
Caught in the Middle by Richard Longworth an ER book about the decline of the Midwest due to globalization
Disturbances in the Field
by Sharon Schwartz
... trying to get through the recent Pulitzer winners and finalists, but have been disappointed lately. I really didn't enjoy Olive Kitteridge until the last 30 pages or so. Thoughts?
I had a good 3rd qtr and looking forward to a better 4th:
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout This one sits firmly at the top! Stunning!
City of Thieves by David Benioff
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Non-fiction:
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson Search for ...
... won't read them before departure). They are America America by Ethan Canin, Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I just finished Reservation Road last evening. I wonder whether anyone in our group has read any of these.
#28 The Crimson Petal and the White
#29 Olive Kitteridge
#30 The Power Of One
#31 Little Women
... Cranford this past weekend. It was good enough but didn't grab me, perhaps just a bit too genteel and superficial after Olive Kitteridge . Am now reading Causing a Scene about a group called Improv Everywhere that does pranks sort of like performance art. Some pranks seem hostile to me so ...
> 132: hemlokgang- Excellent haul! Olive is outstanding! Please hurry up and read the latest Doctorow & Conroy, so you can let us know how they are!
OK here we go...my list might be updated if I read anything superb over the next few weeks (in no particular order):
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - I finally read this because everyone on LT was raving about it, and I wasn't disappointed
What Would Dewey Do? by Gene Ambaum and Bill B ...
Okay...that's it...I must stop doing this!
From Audible.com:
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
... also started This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper.
And since I can't read while driving, I'm listening to Olive Kitteridge . I read it about a year ago and I love revisiting it. What a great book!
... (October 2009)
Montana: asbestos book (non-fiction)
Wyoming: Broken: A Love Story by Lisa Jones
Maine: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Maryland: Chesapeake by James Michener
Alaska: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
The book I picked up to give me a break from Sex and the Eighteenth Century Man was Olive Kitteridge . I've only just begun but finding it engaging so far. Great memory, mollygrace. Without a stimulus, the only poems I remember from high school were by John Dunne. I think our teacher loved ...
... Unknown by John Steinbeck
110. The Embers by Hyatt Bass
111. Bantam of the Opera by Mary Jane Auch
112. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
113. Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
114. Love Letters from Cell 92 by Bonhoeffer and Von Wedemeyer
115. An ...
#3 - Odd. I haven't read any more since I started this thread, but Olive Kitteridge did win and I had already read that, so I should be up to 20. But when I counted on this website it says I'm up to 23 read.
http://www.listsofbests.com/list/28/compare/clamairy
I wonder if I just miscounted ...
Last night, I started Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.
4/108. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
This year's Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction is composed of 13 short stories, most of which are set in a small town in Maine. Though each story can be read on its own, taken together, they tell the stories of several people's lives, most notably ...
26. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Category: Grab Bag
This year's Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction is composed of 13 short stories, most of which are set in a small town in Maine. Though each story can be read on its own, taken together, they tell the stories of several people's lives, ...
>60: bell7- So glad you enjoying Olive . It's an amazing book and easily one of my favorite reads of the year!
... the start of the thread each week - it's a nice touch.
This week I thought I'd try Darling Jim. I'm also listening to Olive Kitteridge while I walk the dog. I read it when it first came out so it's a reread of sorts.
Happy birthday, teelgee!
I'm reading not much different from last week, except Olive Kitteridge which I'm most of the way through (just two stories left). I'm really enjoying it - fantastic characters, bittersweet tales, and wonderful writing. I expect I'll finish it up before I go to bed ...
I'm reading Olive Kitteridge: Fiction by Elizabeth Strout. One of the stories seemed flat to me, but the rest have been excellent.
... in books?
1. Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind
2. Matthew Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables and
3. Olive in Olive Kitteridge
Which three books did you inherit (not necessarily physically, but as recommendations from parents)?
1. A King James Bible
2. An unabridged dictionary
...
... visiting your thread! I think we are both having a big mystery reading month.
#94 I've heard a lot of good things about Olive Kitteridge and look forward to reading it. I started The Magic Toyshop and have set it aside for now. Not at all a light read and I'm not sure I'm going to like ...
Lorie;
It looks like you got some good ones there. I loved Olive Kitteridge . I will be anxious to see what you think of it. And also The Magic Toyshop. I have tried a couple of Carter's and they were a little bold for me, but I have heard good things about this one.
Will be watching for ...
... came home with:
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Freakonomics by Steven Levitt
Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron
Carbs and Cadavers by J.B ...
Just finished Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge for a book club and I'm rereading Alison Lurie's Pulitzer Prize Foreign Affairs to possibly use as my book club choice next month. I'm enjoying it just as much as I did the first time around.
#147 janeajones--Beloved is my all time ...
24. Olive Kitteridge (Aug)
37. Olive Kitteridge (Book Club Selection)
Hmmm. This was well-written, but I found it quite depressing. Other LTers have loved it, but I thought everyone in the book was so unhappy, or struggling with very difficult things like death, adultery, etc. Not that those things aren't a part of ...
... Day by Harold Myra
6) The Minotaur by Benjamin Tammuz
7) The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
8) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
9) Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg
10) Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
11. Housekeeping by Ma ...
I"ve been somehow missing your thread lately so I was delighted to see you and others were quite taken with Olive Kitteridge . Definitely one of my outstanding fiction reads of several years.
Now I shall be on the look out for Revolutionary Road as you have recommended it highly and I have ...
... the Wind, it's not exactly light, but maybe hovers on the edge of comfort reading. I didn't like my Early Reviewer copy of Olive Kitteridge , but other people like it a lot, and it's a prize winner.
As for a somewhat random recommendation, a balance between heavy and light, I might suggest Th ...
... mini-reviews:
1. Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
2. Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips
3. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
4. Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
5. What's the Matter With Kansas? by Thomas Frank
6. Peace Like a River ...
Pulitzer Prize winner, Olive Kitteridge is a series of linked short stories that I found to be good reading. And I recently resurrected as a possible candidate for a book club a little known woman author Gina Berriault who won the PEN/Faulkner award and several others for her collection of ...
#46 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 270 pages
#47 The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent 332 pages
I enjoyed both books. I read Olive Kitteridge as part of an online book club at bookbundlz.com. It was the August selection.
The Heretic's Daughter tells of a Puritan ...
... Recognition - Discussions with Swami Shambhavananda
60. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
61. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
62. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
63. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
64. The Power of Giving: How Giving Back Enri ...
Olive Kitteridge is on my tbr pile. After your excellet review, I'm reminded to move it up closer to the top.
Thanks.
Thank you!
I was very pleased to see that Olive Kitteridge won the Pulitzer Prize.
... on your review.
And congrats on reaching 100 books! I'm so glad that you've given us a list of your favorites. I have Olive Kitteridge on my bedside table and will get to it soon.
... Farm
Our Hearts were Young and Gay
Kafka's Soup
Best Mysteries
Child 44
Farthing
Best Written
The Girls
Olive Kitteridge
Three Day Road
All Quite on the Western Front
Flights of Love
The Robber Bride
Number9dream
Best Adventure
The Outlander
... Farm
Our Hearts were Young and Gay
Kafka's Soup
Best Mysteries
Child 44
Farthing
Best Written
The Girls
Olive Kitteridge
Three Day Road
All Quite on the Western Front
Flights of Love
The Robber Bride
Number9dream
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The Outlander
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3. The Wasp Eater - William Lychack (4)
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5. Sorry - Gail Jones (3)
6. Wearing Dad's Head - Barry Yourgrau (3.5)
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Pulitzer Prize
1. Olive Kitteridge
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1. The Mists of Avalon
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1. Contemporary Fiction
Candidates:
*~~ Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Maine)
*~~ Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
~~ Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
~~ The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
~~ 2666 by Roberto Bolano
~~ The Lost S ...
Olive Kitteridge - straight onto the Wishlist!
... like every time I finish a book, I buy/borrow another 5! And now, thanks to your excellent comments, I need to read Olive Kitteridge .
... by the characterization of James; it is better than the other not-quite-Catcher-in-the-Rye books I've read.
Book 131 is Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I had been looking forward to this one as I'd heard such good things about it, but it didn't really live up to my expectations. Cer ...
28. Olive Kitteridge - Well-done, stories drew me in, but mostly fairly unhappy people resigned to their lives. Not entirely upbeat.
I've just started Olive Kitteridge , which I have been so looking forward to!
#60 Olive Kitteridge
282. Timbuktu - Julia Goschke and Paul Auster (32)
283. You are Being Lied To - Russ Kick, Ed. (350)
284. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (304)
285. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks (192)
#249
Olive Kitteridge was one of the best-written books I've read this year. Try to find an un-abridged version, it's worth it.
I'm reading Olive Kitteridge , just my kind of story.
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... Girls by Lisa See
19.The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
20.The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
21.Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
22.Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan
23.Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
24.The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson ...
I've just finished Wild Swans by Jung Chang and I've started Olive Kitteridge for a book club. Also dipping into Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood. Considering Empire Falls for my book club read--anyone aye or nay?
I've just left China for England after the death of Mao Zedung with Jung Chang in Wild Swans and have joined Olive Kitteridge in Crosby Maine. Whew, Communist China was a trip! Wonderful terrible story of three generations of Chinese women. A cautionary tale of totalitarianism--the destructive ...
... of Adrienne Rich. These are among her early poems - they are fairly easy for me to understand. I'm glad I found them
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I had heard this book was good, but I put off reading it because it is told in a series of short stories. Not, however, your ...
Finished Olive Kitteridge enjoyed it very much
... with characters I wouldn't want in my family or at my dinner table, but they were certainly wonderful to read about. And Olive Kitteridge was in that category for me too.
... them doesn't mean that they have to be always likeable, if you know what I mean. For example, I liked reading about Olive Kitteridge and the main character in The Yiddish Policemen's Union even though I didn't always like their behavior.
... Unknown by John Steinbeck
110. The Embers by Hyatt Bass
111. Bantam of the Opera by Mary Jane Auch
112. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
113. Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
114. Love Letters from Cell 92 by Bonhoeffer and Von Wedemeyer
115. An ...
... three generations of women in Communist China Wild Swans and next for an upcoming book club in August Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge . Simultaneously, I will browse a recently purchased book called Mother Reader by Moira Davey. I like a reader like this because I can pick and choose ...
... you if you were anything but yourself. And if I liked every book I read, I would sicken myself.
I did not realize that Olive Kitteridge had won any prizes. I just got the book from the ARC/ER program, read it, reviewed it and discussed it. I had never heard of it before.
So I guess I ...
... you if you were anything but yourself. And if I liked every book I read, I would sicken myself.
I did not realize that Olive Kitteridge had won any prizes. I just got the book from the ARC/ER program, read it, reviewed it and discussed it. I had never heard of it before.
So I guess I ...
Hi bonnie;
Just sticking my big nose in here to say that Olive Kitteridge is a book of short stories rather than a novel. That might help the "chapters" to make a little more sense to you. Hope that helps you out a bit.
hugs,
belva
I'm an easy audience sometimes. I loved The Good Thief, Out Stealing Horses, Olive and Jim the Boy. I loved the way Jim was written. The simple style was a perfect fit for the simple story. I thought it was rather elegant. The Good Thief was just a great fun adventure and I think a ...
Lhea, I'm not as big a fan as Mark is of Olive Kitteridge . I think she could have left out a couple of chapters in the middle and made it a more coherent story. It read like short stories to me, and I prefer the immersive qualities of a novel, but there is some good writing there.
Out Stea ...
...
http://www.librarything.com/topic/69652
Meanwhile, thank you for the reminder to check Wikipedia. I am going to reread Olive Kitteridge for my church's book discussion group, and I am going to use that Wikipedia page stretched out in Word to take notes my second time through.
Robert
... I take it, I should?
I still haven't read Out Stealing Horses or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn...
Honestly, how is Olive Kitteridge ?
... pretty funny also. I definitely recommend this if you liked The Tipping Point and others in that same stream....
6. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Excellent! I loved it. It really makes you think about loneliness, growing old, and losing the ones you love.
7. The Middle Plac ...
Can not get my review of Olive Kitteridge that I wrote today to show up as complete on the Books I Won. Tried saving book details page again and still does not work. Help.
... in 1996 ... probably at the cusp just before meth took hold. I want to stay in that small-town setting in:
3. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
I'm reading Olive Kitteridge , a novel written in the form of a series of related short stories. This is one of those books I hate to see come to an end. Gilead was another great read. I'm looking forward to reading Home
Ah Robert;
You are enjoying a real treat. Olive Kitteridge , a book of short stories, is probably going to make my top 10 this year. It is excellent!~! I wish I were you; beginning it again. (and they should write a lot more for "us")
Anyhoo----I finished Gilead, wonderful book, then read ...
... 77;
Alice Hoffman's Blackbird House has a common theme running throughout all of the stories.
Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge has a common character running throughout all of the stories.
That's all I can think of at the moment. I hope it helps.
belva
In the midst of Olive Kitteridge It's good.
I know that I loved Olive Kitteridge when I read it a month or so ago, and it has stayed with me. I think that, especially for those of us who are middle-aged and older, there is a little bit of Olive in each of us. I thought the Pulitzer Prize was well deserved.
147: msf59 - I thought Olive was such a wonderful read, and was beautifully written.
Last night I finished Olive Kitteridge . It is marvelous. I am 64 years old, and I am wondering whether a younger person would get it.
When I finished it I picked up Art and Physics. I think I'll dig out another novel to throw into the mix.
Robert
... the Works of Wyndom Lewis, Charles Williams and Graham Greene. I'm still plowing through Team of Rivals and I'm starting Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout for a book club in August.
I am reading Olive Kitteridge . Who'd a' thought there'd be a novel for us?
Robert
Finished up Olive Kitteridge yesterday, so can start the week fresh.
Hoping to start and finish both:
Pride and Prejudice and Commencement.
Seems I am now up to two books a week, if I keep this pace and up to three some weeks, might be able to hit 75.
21. Olive Kitteridge
... Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It deals with the first part of his life up until the presidency. Incredible stuff! I finished Olive Kitteridge and it's one of the best reads of the year. Visit my 50 book challenge, for my short review!
43) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout *****
This is a short story collection that takes place in and around Crosby, Maine and linking these stories is the wonderful title character. She is also prominently featured in about a third of them. Olive is not likable. She's bossy, brusque, ...
... I read last year. Great story-telling. McKait- Did they get your heart back in okay? That's a tough procedure!
I finished Olive Kitteridge and it was absolutely amazing! I know opinion has been divided but it struck a major chord with me. Head still spinning!
I will be starting The Coroner's ...
Ha!~! Regarding Olive Kitteridge ; already read it. I got it as an ARC/ER and have read and reviewed it. I really liked it. A lot!~! Check out my review dude. I am glad you liked it. A lot of LTers didn't seem too fond of it but I am hanging onto my copy because I know I will read it again ...
... and it's very good. Someone mentioned that it was a slow read, but I don't see it, I feel it's fast & fun! I just finished Olive Kitteridge and I was totally blown away. Stop by my challenge tomorrow and I'll post a review. My challenge has been neglected lately and I need some action. Advanced ...
... insubstantial enough that it is better as a lectio divina than as a text book. I then turned for a few minutes to Olive Kitteridge ; I'm three stories into it and so far am glad that it won the Pulitzer Prize.
Robert
... good reads lately. I enjoyed both The 19th Wife and The Time Traveler's Wife when I read them last year, and I've got Olive Kitteridge on the TBR pile.
Edited to add that I love Lisa See and will also be adding Shanghai Girls to the TBR pile. How did you like it? I've heard there is ...
Finished up The Time Traveler's Wife the beginning of this week and am now reading Olive Kitteridge .
... ...
19. The 19th Wife (I love the irony that it's my 19th book)
20. The Time Traveler's Wife
Just starting on Olive Kitteridge .
Ditto on Olive Kitteridge . Loved it.
... to doing that. A quote can convey so much more about the author's style than a mere description of it. Yes, yes, yes on Olive Kitteridge being amazing. I loved how Strout revealed the many facets of her personality bit by bit.
... but I looked it up in my journal and I had read Cops, which I remember being very good.
I'm nearly finished with Olive Kitteridge and it's been amazing. I have to share this passage. A young man charges into the ocean to save a drowning woman:
"He would not let her go. Even though, ...
... the author of Methland and it sounds both fascinating and harrowing. Please share your opinion.
I'm 2/3rds done with Olive Kitteridge and it will easily make my best of the year list. What an incredible writer!
Once again, we are having a group read on Pillars of the Earth, starting ...
Mark and AMQS, I think people who consider Olive Kitteridge a short story collection are going to be much happier with the book. I thought it was a novel, so the fact that it read more like interconnected short stories, some of them really taking you off tract from the main story was irritating ...
Anne- Keeping up with our interest in small town fiction, I started Olive Kitteridge , a short story collection, based in small burg in Maine and all the characters seemed to be inter-connected, a device I love. It's incredible so far!
... I felt the story was very strong. Poor RD. I have also heard Bohjalian's other books are a bit spotty. I just started Olive Kitteridge and it's been spellbinding so far. Have you read it?
... Fatal Light by Richard Currey. It's an ER reissue. A spare haunting novel about Vietnam. Terrific stuff. I'm starting Olive Kitteridge and hoping to squeeze it in before the group read begins Wednesday. If anyone else is interested we are doing a group read of The Pillars of the Earth ...
... Kyung-Ran Jo - Early Reviewer
37. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegetable Gardening - Daria Brown Bowman
38. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout - Early Reviewer
39. Scream Queens of the Dead Sea - Gilad Elbom
40. The Longest Trip Home - John Grogan
41. Ame ...
56. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
(finished 07-05-2009)
excellent book!
57. Black Out by Lisa Unger
(finished 07-08-2009)
interesting thriller.
...
cmt - I'd look for another Alice Munro book. I liked how Castle Rock was short stories, but all the same characters, like Olive Kitteridge , or London.
... places. I'm not so sure I have the right stuff to pick the bestsellers or the prize-winners, though. I think I only gave Olive Kitteridge (one of my earlier ER books) 3.5 stars, and it went on to win the Pulitzer.
Last night I started Triangle for my Library Book Club.
... Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
16. Kansas
17. Kentucky
18. Louisiana
19. Maine - Site Unseen by Dana Cameron; Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
20. Maryland
21. Massachusetts - Still as Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor; The Shortest Day by Jane Langton
22. Michigan
2 ...
... rison
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout (whose Olive Kitteridge was excellent)
or
La Cucina by Lily Prior
What did you think of Olive Kitteridge ? I keep seeing it popping up in threads, and it sounds kind of interesting but different.
Adding another to my list--
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
... Built by Alexander McCall Amith
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys
NON FICTION/BIOGRAPHY 6
A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East ...
... a watch from the drugstore I worked in. I stole a lot of things... I even stole a present for my mother's birthday..."
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
"What do you do all day?"
... I have my copy too and will try to shoehorn it in at the end of next month,hopefully!!
>MsGemini- I plan on starting Olive Kitteridge very soon. Hope you are enjoying it.
I finished The Shadow of the Wind and I have to join the vast army of LT admirers! It's a big, old-fashioned Gothic ...
Looking forward to your comments about Olive Kitteridge .
I am reading Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and Black Out by Lisa Unger.
Olive Kitteridge Olive Kitteridge , less. It was maybe mostly of my own doing. I thought this book was supposed to be a novel, so I was annoyed that it felt more like ...
... you both!):
Shake the Devil Off byEthan Brown This sounds like a hard-hitting non-fiction read, right up my alley!
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Opinions on LT seem to be divided on this one but I need to find out myself.
From the library:
Crazy For the Storm by Norman ...
I also loved Olive Kitteridge . I read it in hardcover when it first came out and am tempted to reread it.
Mark,
thank you and Guterson is a wonderful author. This one just didn't cut it for me. I hope you like Olive Kitteridge too. Are you receiving her as an ARC/ER? I knew she had been out there for a while so I was shocked when she came up on the list, but thrilled when my number came up.
...
... Good job on the reviews and too bad about the Guterson novel. I'm also a big fan of his 1st two. I should be receiving Olive Kitteridge very soon and I'm glad you liked it. I'll probably squeeze it in during the group read.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
My thoughts, comments and review:
Olive Kitteridge ; a book of short stories uniquely told in the fact that Strout has tied all of the stories together by having one or more of the characters common to each story.
I really enjoyed this read. I ...
... are
E.B.White - he of Charlotte's Web fame
Stephen King
Edna St.Vincent Millay - if you're into poetry
Olive Kitteridge - this year's Pulitzer
Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood (one of my nominees for best of the year)
The Sunday Portland Press Herald and the Maine Libr ...
Man, what is up with me?
I had to scroll waaaay up the page to see what books I had talked about previously.
So: I read Olive Kitteridge , which I totally enjoyed!~! Our Lady of the Forest, which I was disappointed in. Not the writing so much but the storyline just did not flow and ebb for ...
... report that I finished Crime and Punishment.
I have two that I think I will be reading this week: Shanghai Girls and Olive Kitteridge .
Bonnie;
Good morning.
I have to confess as I just finished reading her, that I too am one who really, really loved Olive Kitteridge . But I do so love a great book of short stories and I think that Strout, like Capote is better with a short story than a novel.
But just another example of ...
... the Rain, (so reminiscent of Beautiful Joe, all are books that, from your descriptions, I want to read.
I just finished Olive Kitteridge which I was really taken with. But I do love a good book of short stories and I liked how all of these tied together with the one character being ...
I LOVED Olive Kitteridge ! It was like nothing I've ever read before. I'm not sure when I've ever read a book where I changed my mind so often over how I felt about a character. It made her seem real somehow.
... e
then I went to Dymocks for the last time... it was their last day open and everything was reduced to 75% off... I got:
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Beginner's Guide to Living: a novel (Y/A) by Lia Hills
One door closes and another is opened... not really as this shop has ...
... cular!),
Oh, I loved this too, Av. And it's the group read this month? I am going to have to join the discussion! Reading Olive Kitteridge myself.
Nice to see you guys, too! I'm working my way through Olive Kitteridge . Anyone else read it yet? Thoughts?
... like that?
And regarding my ARC/ERs; I am on my last one to catch me up on all of them and it is a doozy. This one is Olive Kitteridge , a book of short stories all tied together by one or more of the same characters. I have heard it panned over and over again here on LT but I don't get it. ...
... Bonnie, just found your new thread . . . Did you like 26a as much as I did? I am one of the ones who really, really liked Olive Kitteridge , so I'm sorry that you didn't get the same reaction to it! I also have Mudbound on the teetering pile and am very keen to read it; but I am very keen to ...
... and government.
This completes my reading of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize books - fiction, non-fiction, and biography. Olive Kitteridge and The Hemingses of Monticello were, for me, most outstanding reads of their genre; this is not as superlative but a very good book for interested ...
You know, bonnie, I have Olive Kitteridge on my TBR listing as a book of short stories so someone at some point in time recc'd it to me as shorts. I keep separate listings for my short story wish list and my book wish list TBRs.
So, obviously, you aren't the only one who read it like that.
I ...
... that sounds like I'd be interested in it too. I'm really loving The Help too. Have you read it?
Nah! I didn't get Olive Kitteridge as an ER. Had to buy it, darn it! I tend to be pretty critical of books, so people are thinking I didn't like it, but I did! I just didn't love it. The ...
... favorite books this year. Mine, too, although it doesn't get much recognition on LT it seems.
That is interesting that Olive Kitteridge was recently sent to you by the ER program. I received it through the same program in December of 2007 when it really was an ARC. Btw, I really liked it. ...
Hi Bonnie;
found you and you've been starred.
So far the books I have read by Elizabeth Strout I have found to be BORING to me. Now that is just my take on her and I have only read 3 of them. I did receive Olive Kitteridge the other day as an ARC/ER (don't ask me--I thought it had been ...
Bonnie, wasn't Olive Kitteridge a bit disappointing -after knowing it was a Pulitzer Prize winner? I expect Pulitzer Prize winners to fully engage my interest. I saw someone on the Metro reading it today and wanted to ask her about it, but I didn't - or I would have missed my stop!
By the ...
Hey, Squeaky! I should have just copied your comments about Olive Kitteridge onto my thread. I felt much the same way about the book (surprise! surprise!) but you said it so much better. :-) Happy reading!
P.S. I just finished Olive Kitteridge and wanted to follow up on your remarks since you and I seem to be liking/disliking the same books. I really liked, even loved, some of the writing at times, as well as some of the chapters, but it felt much more like a collection of short stories with ...
Olive Kitteridge
... Man - Elinor Lipman (6/05/09)
59. Mudbound - Hillary Jordan (6/06/09)
60. 26A - Diana Evans (6/19/09)
61. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (6/22/09)
62. Brain Rules - John Medina (6/09) re-read
63. The Lucky One - Nicholas Sparks (6/27/09) :-( Biggest regret of ...
38. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
... and I went to Barnes and Noble on Friday night and I bought:
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout (because I enjoyed Olive Kitteridge so much and because it was an Orange Prize nominated book).
I also bought Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain by Charles Cross (because I've ...
Finished Olive Kitteridge while out of town for a family wedding. Loved it. Don't you think there is a little bit of Olive in most of us? Started The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society which is altogether a horse of a different color. Liking it so far.
I finished Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout during a long weekend away from home for a family wedding. I enjoyed the book very much. Olive is certainly a force of nature and must have been a joy for the author to write about, as evidenced by the Reader's Guide. I think there is a little bit ...
"You're supposed to stay on the right side of the line..."
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
"Haven't you been listening?"
"Not exactly. Not specifically."
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
"Did Chris tell you how we met?"
Thanks, Linda. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Let me correct one error in my review (now edited) - Olive Kitteridge is fiction. In my original post I somehow stuck a "non" in there.
BTW - my library just notified me they have shipped A Lucky Child my way. Based on your great review, ...
Great review of Olive Kitteridge. Whenever I visit your thread I come away witih many more tbr books. This one sounds wonderful.
"Mom, it's happened. That's all."
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
"What'll we have for supper?"
"Oh, sweetie...It's kind of hard to say."
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
"What's the story with the cookie dough?"
Title: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabth Strout
Date Received: June 18, 2009
Method of Delivery: UPS Ground
Packaging Method: padded mailer
Mailed From: N.Y., N.Y.
Mailed To: Morton, Wa
Format: trade paperback
Publisher: Random House Reader's Circle
Inserts: Note from Marketing Ma ...
"To actually pack up and move--well, that's always seemed too much."
Olive Kitteridge
"My God, how can you stand this place?"
I have finished Olive Kitteridge which was wonderful! I am now, finally, going to read The Kite Runner.
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Susan, I'm now halfway through Olive Kitteridge . It's still a solid 4 stars. It's not my favorite book, but it's fun to read. Again, its vast cast of characters is driving me nuts!!
Middlesex was meh for me, too. I loved The Road very, very much. Gilead is somewhere around ...
After Olive Kitteridge won the Pulitzer, my mom mentioned that she'd like to read it, so I got it for her for Mother's Day (along with The Girls from Ames and The Third Chapter). I didn't know much about it, but had read a few good reviews from LTers.
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Just curious. What made you select Olive Kitteridge as a Mother's Day gift?
I'll also be waiting to hear your thoughts on Olive Kitteridge . I got it for my mom for Mother's Day and she just finished it and loaned it to me. She liked it - especially the chapters that focused more on Olive.
I can't wait to hear your thought's on Olive Kitteridge , I read it a few months ago, and really wasn't all that thrilled. Slow and depressing, with not very many likable characters, but that's just one girls opinion. I mean it did win the Pulitzer so there must be something to it.
"...took the Greyhound bus...And then took a taxi..."
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
"What is that on your chin?"
... for you. Not that you were asking for someone to read a book with, but . . . :) LOL!
Anyway, I'm still reading Olive Kitteridge . What a book!
>119 I am loving Olive Kitteridge too! But unfortunately I have to work today so I won't get back to it for 8 more hours. Maybe I could go home sick?
"Take a night course..."
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
"What is it that interests you?"
... and think it should definitely move up on the TBR pile.
#119 - JolieLouise - So happy to hear that you are enjoying Olive Kitteridge , I just ordered it and can't wait to get in to it.
I finished up The Host last night, so back to Crime and Punishment and plan to start The Madonnas ...
... did you think of Then We Came to the End? It was one of my favorite reads from last year. I'm also looking forward to Olive Kitteridge .
>coppers- I've heard mixed things about this Koontz but the book by him you should have selected, featuring a golden, is Watchers, it's a horror ...
I'm about halfway through Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and it is terrific!
I finished Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris and am now halfway through Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.
I am loving Olive Kitteridge ! I can't put it down! What is it about some authors' writing that grabs you and won't let you go? Wow! Good choice for the Pulitzer Prize.
I should be good now. I won the Early Reviewer book Olive Kitteridge from the May Bonus Batch and am really enjoying it so far.
Very nice review of Olive Kitteridge . I'm adding it to my TBR pile.
... Unknown by John Steinbeck
110. The Embers by Hyatt Bass
111. Bantam of the Opera by Mary Jane Auch
112. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
113. Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
114. Love Letters from Cell 92 by Bonhoeffer and Von Wedemeyer
115. An ...
#47. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
This is the best book I have read this year and one of the best fiction reads in a long time. I could hardly bear for it to end and alternated my reading like someone with an eating issue - gobbling it up ravenously and then trying to limit and ...
... Black
40. Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
41. Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
42. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
43. My Abandonment by Peter Rock
#35, 36, 38, 40, 41 - all juvenile/teen lit, all pretty good
37 - this book traces the ...
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
1. Where did you get this book?
Picked it up at my campus bookstore. I don't buy many books there, but it IS an independent bookstore.
2. Why did you pick this book to read NOW?
I think it's a likely book choice for several of my friends because of ...
... tter
20. Carrie
21. John Adams
22. Blues
23. Breath, Eyes, Memory
24. Affliction
25. The Rascal King
26. Olive Kitteridge
27. Boston Boy
28. She's Come Undone
29. Cod
30. The Prince of Providence
31. Three Junes
32. Self-Reliance
33. The Secret Life of Lobst ...
... trying to figure out what happened to Irene and to make sure that her children were cared for.
I've moved along to Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout after a lucky trip to Border's where all kinds of good books just seemed to leap into my hands. I'm set for at least a month (at the ...
Hi backatcha gal;
You made a haul as well and got some really good reads!~! I have been wanting to read Olive Kitteridge but haven't had an opportunity yet and although I have and read a LOT of Alice Hoffman, The Third Angel is one I've not read. Please let me know how you like it.
>To ...
... Shakespeare: The Complete Reader's Guide for the Attention-Impaired (Abridged) by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor*
3. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
4. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
5. Radiation Sonnets by Jane Yolen
6. Shade by John Olson
7. The Uncommon Reader by Alan ...
... Robbins - the book mentions animals within the food industry
***Both books have an animal in the story
6. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout - a cat named Slippers is in this book
There's an Animal in this book!
Moving along to Mr.Durick in Non-Fiction Readers : Our Non-Fic Reading , May 2009 ? (May 30, 2009, 6:43pm)
... it need be, and his direction may be unclear, but I think it will prove informative. The going will be slow; I switched to Olive Kitteridge for a chapter before I turned out the light.
Robert
Last night I started Olive Kitteridge . The writing is transparent, and the themes or behaviors are not remarkably compelling. Today, reflecting on it, though, I realize that the characters are real to me and facing real forces of life, pretty much as they should do in a good enough novel. I'll ...
Ooh, you're reading so many books that I either loved or really want to read... really interested in your thoughts on Olive Kitteridge .
... it's a terrific crime thriller and the film version wasn't half bad either. I say go for it! I'm also looking forward to Olive Kitteridge , I hope to get to it early this summer, if I can snag a copy!
... it's a terrific crime thriller and the film version wasn't half bad either. I say go for it! I'm also looking forward to Olive Kitteridge , I hope to get to it early this summer, if I can snag a copy!
Currently reading Tribute. Next in line is Olive Kitteridge . Has anyone read A Simple Plan by Scott Smith?
... Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
37. The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr
38. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout
39. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
I really loved: I Heard The Caged Bird Singing (another writer who I just love everything she ...
... I was surprised to see that this is the first book I have tagged 'booze.' I'll have to catalog the books upstairs.
Olive Kitteridge
O is for Olive
Olive Kitteridge
Popeye and Queen Olive Oyl
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
The Olive Farm
Olive Oil
My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List.
... Man - Elinor Lipman (6/05/09)
59. Mudbound - Hillary Jordan (6/06/09)
60. 26A - Diana Evans (6/19/09)
61. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (6/22/09)
62. Brain Rules - John Medina (6/09) re-read
63. The Lucky One - Nicholas Sparks (6/27/09) :-( Biggest regret of ...
... and, of course, couldn't resist trolling the tables for others. Came home with:
The Last Olympian
The Clearing
Olive Kitteridge
The White Tiger
... According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (which just came out in paperback).
Darkfev ...
I just read the first 3 stories in Olive Kitteridge . Way too depressing for me. All these characters whose parents commited suicide should do me a favor and follow in their parents' footsteps. And not take so long to do it. Oy! Such a headache this book gives me! And for this Strout gets a P ...
... Thing by Monica Wood gets my first vote...definitely a great read, and it makes for a good discussion.
Next would be Olive Kitteridge - this year's Pulitzer another good book club read.
Then I'd still vote for Confederates in the Attic,
but Crimson Petal and the White at between 83 ...
#2 skankycat--Elizabeth Stout just won the Pulitzer for Olive Kitteridge . I'm going to take you up on your remarkable recommendation!
Currently reading Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gilead: A novel by Marilynne Robinson for a book club discussion.
... book, Teri Coyne's The Last Bridge. Oh well, all books aren't for all readers.
And I just finished Elizabeth Stout's Olive Kitteridge . In a lifetime of reading I doubt that I've ever read a finer book.
... son
6. Hot, Flat and Crowded
7. House of Cards: A Tale
8. Liar's Poker
9. The Man who Loved China
10. Olive Kitteridge
11. Panic: The Story
12. Safelight
13. The Shack
14. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
15. Water for Elephants
16. While They Slept: An Inq ...
The books I enjoyed the most in 2008:
Olive Kitteridge
Moloka'i
The Wednesday Sisters by (ahem) Meg Waite Clayton
Waiting for Gertrude
Dearly Devoted Dexter et al
The Invisible Wall
Ireland
A Wrinkle in Time
These PureHeart posts are too funny. Didn't read it but thanks for the warning.
I'm surprised that Olive Kitteridge hasn't shown up yet on this list as a star. I liked it quite a bit and was pleasantly surprised to hear that it was awarded the Pulitzer last week.
The other star of my 9 E ...
... have picked up on my own. I tried, trust me....I tried, but this was just too dry, and frankly too boring for me. OTOH Olive Kitteridge , this year's Pulitzer, was also one I didn't like first time around, but loved the second time when I did it in a group. Maybe in a couple years, when I'm ...
... have picked up on my own. I tried, trust me....I tried, but this was just too dry, and frankly too boring for me. OTOH Olive Kitteridge , this year's Pulitzer, was also one I didn't like first time around, but loved the second time when I did it in a group. Maybe in a couple years, when I'm ...
If anyone is interested in parting with their copy of Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (to dream, the impossible dream...) , I would happily part with a book... My first read was a library book, and now our book group has selected it. Thanks.
27. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Well, I finally finished it. After having put it down for a few weeks because I wasn't that enthralled, and found it slow and really depressing. Then it won the Pulitzer and people were saying the second half was better and of course, the library does ...
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
Octavia Butler, Kindred
Also, I just downloaded a sample of Rebecca Fraser's Charlotte Bronte: A Writer's Life. I've got it in hardcover but never got around to reading it, and it might be more convenient to read on Kindle. I'll see if I like the layout ...
... the narrator's tale. That seemed true to me. I had unwittingly read it as the latter and enjoyed the work.
I have put Olive Kitteridge on my Barny Noble wish list.
Robert
I'm in the middle of Olive Kitteridge right now and I'm glad to heard mixed feelings here. I have also put it aside for a while. Slow and depressing are how I would describe it so far. I just wrote in another post, it wasn't calling to me either. I don't normally read short stories but I did ...
I'm a little surprised about Olive Kitteridge . I'm having a hard time with it. I'm finding it depressing and slow. I am about half way through and have read 2 other books since I started it. It just isn't calling me. I have heard a lot of praise for it, I will finish it, eventually. Though it ...
>have read Olive Kitteridge and liked it very much. The stories are loosely connected around Olive, often viewing her from other character's viewpoints (her husband, a former student..etc), but not always. It's really an interesting collection.
I did express some disappointment in it to some L ...
Pleased to see a "Girlybook" winning the Pulitzer! Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout A very worthy winner IMHO.
#84 It's not a set of short stories.
I liked Olive Kitteridge very much but I'm surprised it's the winner.
... subject matter (slavery - very brutal depictions as well). I gave it 5 stars (don't do that too often).
Will check out Olive Kitteridge ...
#94 LouisBranning - Thanks for that bit of good news today - I hadn't heard yet. Olive Kitteridge was one of my favorites from last year, too.
I see that Elizabeth Strout's wonderful novel-in-stories Olive Kitteridge won the Pulitzer Prize today, and I couldn't be more pleased, one of my very favorites from last year.
... Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon (5/17/09)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz (5/23/09)
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (6/22/09)
The Outlander - Gil Adamson (7/04/09)
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo (7/08/0 ...
I started Olive Kitteridge a couple of weeks ago but put it to the side. I've intended to pick it back up, but it just hasn't called to met yet. I don't tend to be a big fan of short stories anyway but I will definitely make sure to give it another go soon.
I can't comment on Olive Kitteridge since I haven't read it, or on the runner-up by Christine Schutt, but even though I enjoyed it, I wouldn't have considered A Plague of Doves a runner-up in a year with much other good fiction.
Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge was announced as this year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Has anyone read this? If so, I'd like to know your thoughts about it.
Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge was announced as this year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Has anyone read this? If so, I'd like to know your thoughts about it.
I did read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao before it won the 2008 prize. I haven't purchased or read Olive Kitteridge yet. What did and didn't you like about it, Dan?
2009 Pulitzer Prize winners:
Fiction - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
Drama - Ruined by Lynn Nottage
History - The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
Biography - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House ...
... Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
7. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
8. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
9. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
10. Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser
11. Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
12. Netherland by Joseph O'Neil ...
... Hannah 5/13/2009
21. Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood 5/29/2009
22. The House at Riverton, Kate Morton 6/8/09
23. Olive Kitteridge , Elizabeth Strout 6/20/2009
24. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer 6/25/2009
25. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princ ...
sydamy, I totally understand what you mean, and don't feel bad about it! I feel like Olive Kitteridge is a tough book to get through and to like. Perhaps it is one of those rare books that sounds better on audiotape...? I've been stumbling upon some of those books lately, and I think I might ...
Steph, I thought I would update you on my Olive Kitteridge reading. I am not LOVING it as the, will you like it? meter thought I would. I am only half way through because every time I go to sit down and read I look at it and then look for something else to read. I am finding it drags also, but ...
Book #36 - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
This is not a novel, but a collection of related short stories in which the character Olive Kitteridge plays varying roles. Olive is seen by many in her small town as a cold woman, but we see her kindness through many of her interactions ...
... 9/9 Category Finished!!!
1. The Little World of Don CamilloGiovannino Guareschi 2/2/09
2. Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Stout DONE 1/10/2009 for the Maine Reads
3. One Man's Meat E.B. White Maine Reads 2/26/09
4. Any Bitter Thing ...
Olive Kitteridge is great, I reckon, and I'm not usually a short story person either. It combines the good aspects of both a novel and a short story. This month I'm reading "A Map of the World" by Jane Hamilton. Very engaging.
I have just started Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I have never read her before and am not usually a short story person but I did love Unaccustomed Earth, so I'm going in with an open mind.
40. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Read this one for my fiction writing workshop, because my professor, like, worships Elizabeth Strout. It's a collection of short stories that usually center around the larger-than-life (physically AND mentally) character of Olive. I wasn't ...
... Kyung-Ran Jo - Early Reviewer
37. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegetable Gardening - Bowman, Daria Brown
38. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout - Early Reviewer
39. Scream Queens of the Dead Sea - Gilad Elbom
40. The Longest Trip Home - John Grogan
41. Sor ...
... ell
2. Colony of Unrequited Dreams - Wayne Johnston
3. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
4. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
5. The Road Home - Rose Tremain
... certainly do have a wide range of reading interests! What did you think of Amy and Isabelle? I'm curious because I read Olive Kitteridge last year, and I had a mixed impression. On one hand, I really liked her writing style, on the other hand I hated the story. So I'm wondering if I should ...
#94: Looks like another good one by Strout. I read Olive Kitteridge last year and will definitely be looking for her other books as well.
I have just added Olive Kitteridge to my wishlist. I checked the will I like it meter and it got the highest rating I've ever received for a book yet. All the way to right - will love - with high certainty. Wow.
Not sure if it was published in the U.K., but if it was, Olive Kitteridge may make the list.
... but the first one was excellent, "Guess Who's Coming for the Dinner." I've heard all good things about this collection.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout is a collection of connected short stories that are all very good - the setting is contemporary Maine.
... nonfiction - history, biography...etc.
Some recent excellent fiction set in Maine. These are connected short stories:
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Why The Devil Chose New England for his Work by Jason Brown
I loved Olive Kitteridge ! Glad you liked it too!
... to my ever growing tbr list. My husband and I vacation in Maine (Princeton). I love it there and thus would enjoy reading Olive Kitteridge . Thanks for this recommendation.
#121: I really liked Olive Kitteridge when I read it last year. Strout did a wonderful job of making her and her family come alive through the eyes of other people.
17.Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I am really happy when I encounter an author who writes excellent short stories. This collection of 13 stories that center on the life of the character Olive Kitteridge and the people who live in her small town of Maine is fabulous. The New York Times ...
17. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I am really happy when I encounter an author who writes excellent short stories. This collection of 13 stories that center on the life of the character Olive Kitteridge and the people who live in her small town of Maine is fabulous. The New York Times ...
... finished Mr. Timothy by Louis Bayard. I am now reading Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum (for a book club) and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I am enjoying Strout's way with character and plot immensely.
Time to recap January's reads: 19 Books, 4370 pages.
Best fiction read - a tie between Ella Minnow Pea and Olive Kitteridge
Best non-fiction : The Dark side: the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American Ideals
Here's the January list of reading ...
... there, you know. I got God of War and Ocean of Words. Later I stopped at the library and picked up The Penelopiad, Olive Kitteridge , and The Hakawati. I am looking forward to these last few - after I read the fifteen or so library books I already have! It's a sickness, I know.
... by Mario Vargas Llosa
10)Dom Casmurro by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
11)Old Filth by Jane Gardam READ
12)Olive Kitteridge by Elizabet Strout READ
13)The Help by Kathryn Stockett READ
14) The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson READ
15) Life of Pi by Yan ...
... v. Boy by Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout (YA, 3, #57)
39. Swim the Fly by Don Calame (YA, 4.5, #58)
40. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (adult, #59)
41. Say the Word by Jeannine Garsee (YA, 3.5, #62)
April
42. A Map of the Known World by Lisa Ann ...
... so far this year I've finished:
1. the Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder msg #17
2. Pawing through the Past msg #20
3. Olive Kitteridge msg #21
4. The Dark Side: The inside story of how the War on Terror turned into the war on American Ideals msg #25
5. Shakespeare: The World as Stage ...
... Falls by Richard Russo
2003: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
2004: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
So, that's only 33. Those I have *'d I have read more than once.
Edited to add touchstones.
11-09 Edited to add this year's ...
#21: I agree about the main character in Olive Kitteridge . If I knew her in real life, I would probably not like her a bit. That being said, though, I would recommend the book because I think Strout just such a fine job of showing Kitteridge (and her family) from every point of view. Each ...
#3. Olive Kitteridge . I read this originally last year and didn't care for..I just couldn't stand the central character. Our "Read around Maine" online book group chose this as the January read so I thought I'd give it another chance to see if other people had the same reaction I did. I'm so ...
Category #8 Books on a list: 1/9 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
I read this originally last year and didn't care for it. I just couldn't stand the central character. This was the January read for our tututhefirst in 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Tututhefirst joins in (Jan 3, 2009, 12:38pm)
... downloaded if they weren't) and I WANT to read them, they may be the first 17 I do (along with the two book discussions- Olive Kitteridge and Coffee Trader I'm doing, and the ER "Bestseller"(bad touchstone) I got that I am committed to review.
So stay tuned boys and girls, 2009 is off to ...
... to the Y to swim.
3. Bestseller by Jane Daniel (wrong touchstone) - a bonus ER book I got last week
4. Re-read of Olive Kitteridge - for a Read Around Maine group read.
5. The Coffee Trader for the Early Winter 2009 Book Group read.
I think they will keep me busy for at ...
... 12/04/09 - 12/08/09 (3.5 stars)
5. Tears of Pearl by Tasha Alexander 12/09/09 - 12/15/09 (3 stars)
6. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 12/16/09 - 12/19/09 (4 stars)
7. A Few Quick Ones by P.G. Wodehouse 12/19/09 - 12/23/09 (3 stars)
8. The Housekeeper ...
... my categories to Read Around Maine, but figure my book club/list category will handle whatever comes up. They are reading Olive Kitteridge , a book I read last year and didn't particularly like, but I decided to re-do to see if other people had a different perspective that would shed new light. ...
... Runcie *February 9
3. The Fiction Class by Susan Breen *September 28
4. Olive Kitteridge *October 7
5. Watch Over Me by Christa Parrish *September 7
6. In Hovering ...
...
The Road
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Madness and the Fair that Changed America
The Tenderness of Wolves
Olive Kitteridge
... Wasp Eater - William Lychack (4) - Review
4. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (3)
5. Sorry - Gail Jones (3)
6. Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Thomas L. Friedman - CURRENT READ
7.
Mmmm! Fo ...
... The Hours Finished Jan. 11
ii. Interpreter of Maladies Finished Feb. 11
iii. The Shipping News Finished Mar 6
iv. Olive Kitteridge Finished Apr 25
v. The Fixer Finished May 12
vi. The Stone Diaries Finished June 23
vii The Grapes of Wrath Finished July 13
viii. The Optimist's ...
58) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.
I really enjoyed the interesting structure of this book. It is written as a connected and varying group of short stories concerning with Olive Kitteridge a retired school teacher trying to cope with her twilight years. Some a written from Olive's point ...
... and 2 by Marjane Satrapi
Best short story collection (3 way tie):
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Come to Me by Amy Bloom
Best nonfiction by an author I wish was my history teacher: The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah ...
62.The Water's Lovely Ruth Rendell
63. When you Are engulfed in Flames David Sedaris
64.Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout
65.Innocent Traitor Alison Weir
66. The Bush Tragedy Jacob Weisberg
67. Best Defense Barbara Wilhelm
Reviews to be posted later...it's late and I'm trying to ...
The books I've completed for my 50-Books Challenge are listed first in the order read. The remaining books include: Books I've bought and haven't read yet, some books I want to finish, plus books recommended by other LT-ers. I was going to wait until Jan. 1st to begin, but I got snowed in, so m ...
... ccomplished:
1.Chocolate Chip Murder Mystery Joann Fluke msg #17
2.Pawing through the Past Rita Mae Brown msg #20
3.Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout msg #
4.The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror turned into a War on American Ideals Jane Mayer msg#25
5.Shakespeare: ...
... lankets
The Arrival
Ethel and Ernest
The Lost Thing
Short Stories:
Interpreter of Maladies
Olive Kitteridge
Come to Me - (Amy Bloom)
Nonfiction:
In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
Amish Grace
Three Cups of Tea
The Partly ...
... for his Work by Jason Brown. A debut collection by a young writer and set not-so-far from the Strout book listed next.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout, a composite picture of Olive and her surroundings.
Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman, clever and thoughtful stuff.
Poetry, ...
... ri
The Northern Clemency - Philip Hensher
Shadow Country - Peter Matthiessen
A Better Angel - Chris Adrian
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
Beginner's Greek - James Collins
Dangerous Laughter - Stephen Millhauser
The Garden of Last Days - Andre Dubus III
Bea ...
... in mind that it has to have been published in the UK this past year).
Toni Morrison, A Mercy
Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife
Annie Dillard, Maytrees
Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant (has that been ...
... list, but I certainly haven't forgotten it. I loved Empire Falls--it's the kind of book I really get lost in.
Olive Kitteridge was one of my favorite reads this year, and it gets my firmest nudge from your list.
... a lot, which only makes me realize how much I'm not reading besides my students' work right now.
I haven't read Olive Kitteridge . The paradigm I used for my book--the one that lighted the way for me--was Melissa Bank's The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing. However, my book here ...
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1 unaccustomed earth jhumpa lahiri (3 january-6 january)
2 olive kitteridge elizabeth strout (13 november-20 november)
3 too much happiness alice munro (6 november-9 november)
4 east, west salman rushdie (10 december-11 ...
... (pulitzer prize 2005) (24 january-25 january )
7 amsterdam ian mcewan (man booker prize 1998) (1 january-2 january)
8 olive kitteridge elizabeth strout (pulitzer prize 2009) (13 november-20 november)
9 august: osage county tracy lets (pulitzer prize 2008) (12 january)
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By the way, another author who did a novel of short stories (which was very good) is Elizabeth Strout with her book Olive Kitteridge . Have you read it?
... for Elephants; it's not the kind of book I usually pick up, but it was a unique story with a great narrative voice.
Olive Kitteridge : just OK for me (although I know others loved it).
... binson
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
March by Geraldine Brooks
Peace Like A River by Leif Enger
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
Mosquito by Roma Tearne
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#54 Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories by Elizabeth Strout (October). Marvelous writing, brilliant character studies. I was jealous of Strout's skills and thoroughly ...
... of these are authors I've enjoyed before
1. The Little World of Don CamilloGiovannino Guareschi 2/2/09
2. Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Stout DONE 1/10/2009 for the Maine Reads online book discussion
3. One Man's Meat E.B. White for Maine Reads online ...
I haven't posted for a while. Since my last post, I have read Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work by Jason Brown, both with Maine settings. While they are very different books, I thought I 'recognized' the characters in the latter a little more ...
Judy, I like your comments on Olive Kitteridge posted above.
As you read each story, you think you are getting to know Olive, but then as you read the next story, you discover something new
Very astute. While I didn't think the story was entirely credible in representing the people ...
Finished Olive Kitteridge which was one of the best books for me this year. A well crafted, well written, enjoyable story.
Read The Diving Pool - hardly worth the time it took (imo).
Just finished The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing. This was a superb read. Lessing is definitely a ...
113. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
This was an LT recommendation - and my thanks to those of you who pointed it out! A wonderful story, yet told as a series of (almost) short stories which introduce us to Olive. Each story shows us a little more of Olive, from many points of view - ...
... (lunch reading) and Sarah's Key in case I finish Space book (right like that will happen but need to be prepared) and Olive Kitteridge to return to library cause I ended up buying it a Borders yesterday for 30% off.
Currently reading Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stroud.
1. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
2. In The Woods by Tana French
3. City of Thieves by David Benioff
4. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society Mary Ann Shaffer
And, unless something inexplicable happens in the last 100 or so pages
5. The Outlander a Novel by Gil Ada ...
... to Iceland
Kelroy by Rebecca Rush - Skewering of Philadelphia society (written in the early part of the 19th century)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - loosely connected stories most around Olive, set in Maine.
Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work : stories by Jason Brown. - ...
... in the fictional town of Vaughn (in Maine on the Kennebec River) - not all that far from the setting of Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge , these somewhat but not entirely bleak stories seem to explore the holes in people's lives, oftentimes told in the voice or point-of-view of a child or ...
... to Iceland
Kelroy by Rebecca Rush - Skewering of Philadelphia society (written in the early part of the 19th century)
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - loosely connected stories most around Olive, set in Maine.
Rereads
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. Satirical tale of a ...
... by Nicholas Carr (4.02) - 48 ratings
Top 10 Fiction of 2007:
1. Mudbound by Hillary Jordan (4.47) - 75 ratings
2. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (4.04) - 103 ratings
3. Boy A by Jonathan Trigell (4) - 41 ratings
4. The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block (3.92) - 112 ...
... future (somewhere) in Aileen La Tourette's novel Cry Wolf, and I'm in my home state of Maine again, not far from Olive Kitteridge , with Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work: stories by Jason Brown.
#78 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Well. Strout's writing is excellent, and I loved the organization of this book - it is almost exactly like Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson. That said, I really did not like the story at all. It's just such a depressing book, and not in a ...
I just finished Neverwhere, which was absolutely fantastic. Next up is Olive Kitteridge , because I've seen it mentioned all over LT. I think I'll like it - it's frequently compared to Winesburg, Ohio which I enjoyed. After that, maybe The Book Thief? I have it out from the library and it's ...
... fiction
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean - ditto;
Runners up: March by Geraldine Brooks, Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.
Top of the poo pile: Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen. Trite, predictable, irritating.
41. Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories by Elizabeth Stroat
A really well-written, fascinating look at the central personality, Olive Kitteridge, using stories surrounding this character as the device to expand the character but also the personalities in the town around her. Sometime ...
... Stop Cafe when Mildred Pierce showed up, Looking for Rachel Wallace. "That woman is My Mortal Enemy" declared Olive Kitteridge grimly. "She wore my White Boots To the Lighthouse One Morning in Maine, and when she came back, they were full of Holes. I had hoped to Forget Ab ...
48. Amy and Isabelle Another fine novel from Elizabeth Strout. At least as good as Olive Kitteridge , with just as many perfectly drawn characters, and more of a story line. Some of the scenes in this novel will stay with me a long time; I feel as though I have already seen the movie. ...
I read Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout on the way to Australia earlier this month. It's a terrific book but I could not help but be a little disappointed. I suppose I was looking for a bit of "home' in the book and didn't find it.
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69. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Very satisfying read! (4/5)
I'm still planning to read Olive Kitteridge as soon as finish Arlington Park, which I'm enjoying--if only I would stop having houseguests! Fingers are crossed--I think I just waved goodbye to the last ones for awhile. I love having friends to stay, but it does cut in terribly on my reading time! ...
I'm reading Olive Kitteridge and very much liking it. Will probably zip through the second Persepolis after this, and then who knows?
Last night I finished Garden Spells which I thought abysmal. Now reading Olive Kitteridge and Sweetsmoke, both quite good so far.
... - Having read this one, I am anxious to read nonfiction about Lady Elgin - she sounds like an interesting character
290. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - I enjoyed this one very much
291. The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton - A good time was had by all
292. River ...
You have me intrigued. I have placed Olive Kitteridge on hold at the library but sadly, Cindie is not held there. I'll have to find that elsewhere.
I loved Olive Kitteridge too. I hope to read Strout's other books soon.
Finished Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and I'm recommending it to everyone.
Now reading Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote.
35. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
... posted here. Still on holiday/vacation but what I've read since boarding the first plane that falls into this category:
Olive kitteridge - very good.
Buxton Spice by Oonya Kempadoo. Good - about growing up in 1970s Guyana.
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Very good. dual ...
Olive Kitteridge is on my pile. I plan to read it as soon as I finish the new Joan Silber. (OK, and maybe a mystery in between . . .)
Finished Cindie: A Chronicle of the Canefields (1949) by Jean Devanny - very enjoyable.
Now reading Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and I'm appreciating her lovely prose style.
I just finished Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. It was a real treat - I gave it five stars!
Thanks, Joyce. I think you would enjoy Olive Kitteridge , especially if you loved Winesburg, Ohio, which I also loved. It's one of the few books I actually read (as in finished!) in college. =)
Your review is probably the most balanced of those I've seen of Olive Kitteridge . and I LOVED Winesburg, Ohio! So, this one goes on my Wish List as well.
53) Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout ( review )
44. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Wonderful. From time to time I found myself wishing for something fine and lovely to happen to somebody in this book, but then Olive would come along and make some feisty pronouncement that made me laugh out loud. I kept expecting to see ...
Have finished Olive Kitteridge , The Final Solution and am currently reading Buxton Spice. Will post on these when I am back from Australia and on my own comfy MAC:-)
I have been in Maine, USA with Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and in the UK with Michael Chabon's The Final Solution. Now, I'm in Guyana with Buxton Spice y Oonya Kempadoo. I am also in Sydney, Australia with various maps and at least one tourist guide:-)
... decided that there are too many authors out there that I do enjoy to waste time on one whom I clearly do not.
I am on to Olive Kitteridge which I have heard very good things about. I hope it takes the bad taste of Needful Things out of my mouth.
47.Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.
... one was an audio book, at that!), the good news is it makes it easier to pick a favorite from such a small selection!
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brian was a close second.
... Atwood - same as Carter above, the Atwoodians group is reading this for our summer group read, so I'm rereading it.
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I'm a Mainer and it's set in Maine.
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Orange Prize past nominee, picked it up for OP reading.
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... Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time also. So far it's good, it reads at a quick pace. A few days ago I finished Olive Kitteridge so this is a nice change of pace from that.
Picked up a copy of Olive Kitteridge at Powell's today in anticipation of a group read. Looking forward to this one!
... and picked up: The Plague of Doves, The Reading Group, Nine Coaches Waiting, Suite Francaise, River Town, and Olive Kitteridge .
I am reading Olive Kitteridge from the library, and also Black by Ted Dekker.
Olive Kitteridge has been one of my favorite books this year, recommended to everyone.
Yesterday I started Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I've finished 2 chapters. The idea of the separate chapters to tell the story is interesting.
... only 50 pages seems very unfair to the author.
Also, my taste in books is not exactly mainstream. Case in point, Olive Kitteridge was a recent Early Reviewer selection, and was getting rave reviews. I don't read much fiction, but I thought it was worth taking a look. I found it ...
... there were a couple of great ones, as well as a couple I was conspicuously disappointed with, but these were the best:
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout was one of the best novel-in-short stories I've ever read, I loved Olive and think most other readers will too.
The Garden of Last D ...
... author to sign both copies.
Bonk and The Enchantress of Florence are on my “check this out” list. I looked at Olive Kitteridge in a bookstore, but did not buy it, as I could not bear the desperation in the chapters I read. I probably wouldn’t have considered any of these titles ...
Drowning Ruth
Ruth
The Book of Ruth
Olive Kitteridge
Katherine
Harold and Maude
... The frightening part for me was the reality with which Strout displayed human choices and the fragile human ego.
Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories sounds good and sounds like it may have some of the same raw insight into human interaction that made for a good read in Amy and Isabel ...
41. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
42. So Brave, Young and Handsome by Leif Enger
43. Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories by Elizabeth Strout
Tipperary
Red Zone Blues: a Snapshot of Baghdad During the Surge
Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories
AMERICAN THEOCRACY Unpacked
Shadow of Colossus: A Seven Wonders Novel
How to Find Morels
You Can Prevent Global Warming (and Save Money!): 51 Easy Ways
Love Marriage
I've been requesting since the beginning as well.
I've gotten:
Gifted
Olive Kitteridge
Manic
The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp
and The Wednesday Sisters
I didn't get anything from the May batch but I have my fingers crossed for June ...
I just finished Olive Kitteridge - oh my! I loved it and didn't want it to end. I need to know more about what happened to the characters! Absolutely one of my all time favorites. I am about to start I Am Legend although I believe someone on this thread stated that they only read this story ...
24. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout - I cannot even begin to describe how much I loved this book. Such flawed, interesting, real characters - absolutely breathtaking.
#47, bookaholicgirl: Olive Kitteridge is just so great, and hope you find it as warmly spectacular as I did.
#70, SeanLong: Sean, the first 200 pages of The Garden of Last Days is pure adrenalin, one of the most exciting set of sequences of any book I've read this year, but it was ...
... autobiography I can't remember which it is) that I also picked up in the library. For this week, though, I am currently Olive Kitteridge which I am absolutely loving. I am only on the 3rd story but I think I will go through this very quickly.
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Mudbound by Hillary Jordan -- really looking forward to this one.
I also got a gift download from audible.com of Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.
Getting ready for recuperation from carpal tunnel surgery tomorrow, have my stacks of books and audio handy!
... American novels", high praise indeed and I couldn't have said it better.
I finished Elizabeth Strout's marvelous book Olive Kitteridge and loved it right down to the end, and will be recommending this one for a long time. Right now I'm 50-plus pages into Andre Dubus's The Garden of Last D ...
Thanks for all the comments and recs on the terrific Olive Kitteridge , and did someone mention Noel Coward?? I'm compelled to recommend The Letters of Noel Coward, edited by his erstwhile biographer Barry Day, and certainly one of the funniest, and most amazing things I read last year, a ...
#13 - I loved Olive Kitteridge too. Strout is a master character sketch artist. It is the only early reviewer book I have gotten that has been any good.
I am slogging through The Brothers Karamazov ~ pg 250. I swear I won't give up this time, but unfortunately thus far, I am finding much ...
#13 LouisBranning - after you finish Olive Kitteridge you might be interested in this discussion from the Early Reviewers: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=27427
... a hundred pages or so, I had to toss it.
Right now I'm having a much better time of it with Elizabeth Strout's new book Olive Kitteridge , a set of interlocking short stories that really reads more like a novel, and I'm fairly enthralled so far, don't like to put it down either, just super ...
Olive the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh
Pickle Chiffon Pie by Jolly Roger Bradfield
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Gentleman's Relish by Ronnie Barker
Sweet as a Pickle and Clean as a Pig by Carson McCullers
The reviews for How to Find Morels are gone, too. But the Olive Kitteridge reviews are still up.
Finally, #2. I finished Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I snagged this as an Early Reviewer, but did a poor job of finishing it "early." Oh well, January was a rough month. Maybe I shouldn't have chosen to do 75 books in the year that I'm trying to tackle Ulysses. I loved Olive Kitte ...
Finished Olive Kitteridge . Subtle. The first several stories didn't really grab me, but I enjoyed the last five or six stories quite a bit.
Still experimenting with book selection. I'm trying to figure out what book I'm in the mood for. So, I've started two books, both of which I think will be ...
Does anyone want to discuss Olive Kitteridge ? I don't have any specific topic in mind. There are 31 reviews posted, and they vary quite a bit, so it seems we each got something different out of the stories. It might be interesting to talk about what we each liked (or didn't like). Anyway, my ...
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. My early review book. Lovely. Simply lovely. Review forthcoming.
I think the key word here is "Goal";) I'll do my best though and have a book with me 99% of the time.
Cheers!
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Richly deeply satisfying, 13 short stories winding around Olive Kitteridge, retired ‘scary’ Math teacher in small-town Maine. She’s not a nice person, opinionated, ...
