Publisher: Random House Page Count: 270 Fiction Genre: Short Stories, Book Club, Dates Read: September 19-20, 2015 Summary Olive Kitteridge is a woman who has seen a lot happen in her life. This book is full of short stories taking place in small-town Maine, and all revolving around Olive. Some of the stories are told from her perspective, and the rest from other town member's perspectives. Olive is not always a central character in each story, but will sometimes just make a passing appearance. Review What did I just read? I'm conflicted about whether I liked this or not. This book was very depressing, the stories were deep and personal. I felt like I actually knew the people in the stories. However, the book ran along the edge of boring and dived deeply into depressive. I have never thought about suicide and death so much in my life ... And my job requires me to go through yearly suicide prevention training. I did like how this book was structured, showing how many lives one person can touch, even in small, minute ways, and not even know it. I connected with all of the characters; they were very well developed. I laughed at their silly stories, and found myself crying at their heartaches. There was just so much heartache. I think my breaking point was when Henry has his life-changing event that alters his and Olive's lives in great ways. This book was good, but it was just very depressing. I found myself pushing to finish this book because it was depressing me, and the need to take constant and long breaks from it. Ratings (based on a 10 point scale) Quality of Writing - 9 Pace - 7 Plot Development - 6 Characters - 8 Enjoyability - 4 Insightfulness - 5 Ease of Reading - 6 Photos/Illustrations - N/A Overall Rating - 4 out of 5 stars
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