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Last month, my TriCon Book Group discussed Elizabeth Strout’s novel-in-stories Olive Kitteridge. I loved the character development in this book, and gave it a very favorable review.
I was unable to attend the book group meeting (J wasn’t able to get home in time to do child-handoff with me, and I hadn’t arranged a babysitter), so [...]
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (September 30, 2008)
ISBN-13: 978-0812971835
Back-of-the-book blurb: At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, [...]
TEASER TUESDAYS is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading and asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” [...]
“The best laid plans of mice and men …”
Yes, there was a big snafu with my plans for attending the New Literary Voices panel of our local Festival of Authors yesterday. The panel featured Margaret Cezair-Thompson (The Pirate’s Daughter), Amy MacKinnon (Tethered) and Peter Clenott (Hunting the King). So what happened? What kept me from [...]
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