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Nov 23, 2023lyndasclater rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I really liked this book - far better than the first.
Jun 09, 2023LynneDaly rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Liked a lot as I have her other books. Written very nicely and hilarious in parts. Loved Olive, the main character. Would def recommend for a summer read, altho it is not chick lit or anything like that. Enjoy!
Jan 20, 2023warburk rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
more of Olive Kitteredge. Enjoyable story
Jul 17, 2022sunnyblonde rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I found this book was more like a series of character background stories. True the characters from the various chapters meet up and Olive pops up again and again in different years of her life. Not one I would race to recommend but it was…
Feb 15, 2022merrywheaton rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I read this and I didn't think I remembered anything about it except for the young girl whom Olive helped when she went into labor. But now I do remember it was about aging Olive who remarried and was faced with working out differences in…
Apr 30, 2021peacebenow rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Very enjoyable as Olive grows and those who you come in contact with also move forward in their thinking. Some funny moments and tender moments too. Every other chapter highlights other people from Crosby whose lives intersect w/ Olive.…
Apr 14, 2021lizmaci rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
great favourite, small town setting where personalities become characters fast, believable though
Feb 20, 2021Merle Taylor rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A series of stories about the mature Olive. Loved it
Feb 09, 2021xiaojunbpl12 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Need, no greed; humdrum, no glum. Olive et al plead, not all my feed. Wherever we were from, one end we become. Also a pandemic read: dread death, expand breath; not to succumb, know when to cede. Life forms in sum, freed.
Jan 31, 2021
Olive can not hold her tongue and thats what you love and hate about her. She is the real McCoy. I loved every minute of the audio book. Please, Olive, Don’t leave us!
Nov 25, 2020empbee rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
To read Elizabeth Strout is like having my favourite dessert. Her style is fluid, seemingly simple, without hypocrisy but full of humour, healthy sarcasm, honesty.
Oct 22, 2020LPL_SarahM rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A solid sequel to Olive Kitteridge. Here we see Olive in her final years as she navigates loss, new friendships, and old grudges.
Oct 01, 2020sgcf rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This collection of interlinked stories features ordinary people, skillfully made real by Strout, and always Olive Kitteridge …sometimes tangentially, sometimes it’s all about her. Olive is presented in the later decades of life as she…
Sep 20, 2020
Elizabeth Strout writes as I can only dream of. Her writing is straightforward and direct. Reading her words, I never feel like she's deserted any effort. This is a smooth trick to master and she's done it. I first became acquainted…
Aug 30, 2020sarahsz1 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I loved this book. Loved the honest portrayal of aging, especially the honest discussions of aspects of aging that most people don't discuss so openly. I loved the reflections on life, relationships, self-acceptance and uncertainty. It…
Jul 29, 2020Indoorcamping rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
After reading all the Elizabeth Strout books, I didn’t want to read this one! It’s the last. You know she’s not coming back again, Olive that is, and I didn’t want to say goodbye. Although when I first read Oliver Kitteridge, I didn’t feel…
Jul 02, 2020EljayJohnson rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Everything literary fiction should be: wonderful writing, subtlety, strong voice and character development, thoughtful and thought-provoking themes to ruminate on. Olive Kitteridge will go down as one of the most incisively drawn of…
Jul 02, 2020kathylock rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
The flow of the book was disorganized and jumped around too much. So parts were written well, but others dragged on. I would not recommend.
Jun 10, 2020
Olive marries a fellow from the town she lives in a few years after her 1st husband Henry, dies. She is the same indomitable woman she’s always been , but those whose lives she crosses are enriched by interactions with her. the story…
Apr 29, 2020cheriemoses rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Although I enjoyed the first Olive book, this one seemed very disjointed. The forays into the lives of so many people did not hold the story together as a whole in any way. I felt this was an attempt to write more about a a fascinating…
Apr 22, 2020myccl rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I love Elizabeth Strout's books, and this second book about Olive Kitteridge did not disappoint. To me, it is a powerful story about human beings with all our triumphs, failures, quirks and beliefs, and the questions about life and living…
Apr 15, 2020krsbozo rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I liked this book, although I hadn't read the previous novel about Olive. Life is hard, we get old, we lose our friends and spouses and our bodies become frail and broken. Our relationships with those we love are failed or barely…
Apr 07, 2020
Love Olive! This is part two in the life of Olive Kitteridge, her second marriage, the relationship with her estranged son, and different people she encounters. She is a lonely widow living in Crosby, Maine. I’d recommend reading the first…
Mar 09, 2020
I enjoyed this book tremendously, even more than the first Olive . Probably because it was read by Kimberly Farr on a preloaded Play Away. She did a fantastic job!
Feb 23, 2020trickbag22 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Olive is a person who speaks her mind with little regard for how it sounds. At times endearing but not always. She feels deeply but seems to have little understanding of herself and others. She ends up being a rather lonely person because…