Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (6/10)
I take this book off the bookshelf next because someone gave it to me. Someone actually came to my house and gave it to me. Which I think deserves a level of respect. Also then if I don’t like it I know where to send it back...
2. Olive Kitteridge (6/10)
This book made me quiet. And plaintive. And wise.
This book was sad but cosy, getting married and growing old in a small-town kinda cosy – but harsh?
Watching your kids grow up and pretend not to know you anymore kind of harsh – but inspiring?
Or at least satisfying
Satisfying because it jumps between the perspectives of lots of different people who all live in the same town – which is exactly what novels should do, things real life can’t like skip over twenty years in a sentence and jump between heads like a flea of a god
I think this book might have given me some perspective on my own life too
My mom came in just now to use my full-length mirror and she said how’s this? I said yeah mom you look amazing (she’s getting ready to go out with my stepdad which is kinda unusual and I might’ve blinked the whole thing away if it weren’t for this book.) It helped me see the cosiness in the whole thing, in the reality of their married life.
This book will make you feel young. Or remind you that life is long.
I place it back on the shelf.
That was easy enough.
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