Olive Kitteridge
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By admin - October 15th, 2009 in Books Worth A Look |
Our Take: You will fall in love with this book and its characters in the first two pages. Strout’s descriptions of the people living in and around Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher in the small town of Crosby, Maine, are endearing, honest, funny, unique and also familiar. The book is actually a collection of short stories that taken together weave a powerful and memorable tale.
A few good lines: Retired now, he still wakes early and remembers how mornings used to be his favorite, as though the world were his secret, tires rumbling softly beneath him and the light emerging through the early fog, the brief sight of the bay off to his right, then the pines, tall and slender, and almost always he rode with the window partly open because he loved the smell of the pines and the heavy salt air, and in the winter he loved the smell of the cold.
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