Some stories I loved but some not so much and I’m beginning to feel that I may need to give it a second chance down the line. Overall rating: I’m not sure I understand the hype surrounding Elizabeth Strout‘s “Olive Kitteridge” but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It feels that in reading this book as I would a normal novel, I may have lost some of the feeling and connection intended by the author. I think this may be one to come back to in the future, perhaps treating the stories as individual pieces rather than reading them as a whole.
A lot of the day-to-day lives in Maine are just not that interesting and for those that I did get into, they often came to an abrupt end just when I was connecting with the characters. I enjoyed several of these stories, most of all the opening story entitled ‘Pharmacy’, but there were a few that didn’t interest me that much. Olive is rude and crass and she’s definitely not afraid to say what she’s thinking but somehow she’s still a little bit loveable.Īs expected, Elizabeth Strout writes beautifully but I found the structure of this book to be a little awkward. Olive is a larger than life woman, she’s a retired school teacher, a concerned mother and a nosy neighbour. This is a collection of 13 short stories, all connected in some way to leading lady Olive Kitteridge.
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