Comments on: “Olive Kitteridge” by Elizabeth Strout

By: gretchen

gretchen — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:52:47 +0000

Steph, I also am not a fan of short stories, but I really loved Olive Kitteridge. (A warning: I found it to be a slow start.) The story where Olive goes to visit her son in New York was profoundly moving to me.

By: Steph

Steph — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:54:35 +0000

I know you weren’t a huge fan of A Mercy, but I did quite like it, so I’ll be interested to see how I feel Olive Kitteridge stacks up. Generally I don’t fare that well with short story collections and tend to prefer the traditional novel, but given all the good I’ve heard about this one, I know I shall have to give it a try. I just hope I like it more than Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth (which I thought was a shockingly poor collection)!

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:14:56 +0000

I loved this book. One of those great books where, even though the main character is someone I wouldn’t want to know in real life, I was allowed to understand who she was and how she got that way.

By: Petunia

Petunia — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:43:41 +0000

This sounds epic. I’ve heard so much positive feedback about it.