Book Club meeting held via Zoom due to Lockdown. Not totally successful technology wise - but at least we had our book club meeting.
Olive Kitteridge (2008)
is a novel by American author Elizabeth Strout. It presents a portrait
of the title character and a number of recurring characters in the
coastal town of Crosby, Maine. It takes the form of 13 short stories that are interrelated but discontinuous in terms of narrative. (Wikipedia) Using the stories within a novel concite, we are introduced to the people that Olive as school teacher, wife, mother has touched upon in her life. She is not a likeable character, abrasive, harsh, kind, intuitive, blunt and many other contradictory words.
Most in the book club loved this book, found the character of Olive, difficult though she is, resonated with them. The short stories within the novel was an interesting way to introduce the complex characters that lived in the Maine town. A few of us did not like the chop and change of the short stories and found the inconsidtent time line difficult.
Words used to describe it: resonates, human nature, vivid description of character, unforgiving,
Marks out of 10: between 5 - 9 (mostly between 7 -9)
