Finished reading, Olive Kitteridge

September 1, 2010 by nanascurse

That's the book for the library club in September.  I finished it and am so glad it's O-V-E-R !!!!!!  I love her writing and the way she builds each character into a living, breathing person.  I just couldn't take one more minute of the sadness!  My God!  So much heartbreak, illness, death, disappointment....it was just too much at once, for me.  I'm going to look back at the discussions on the Nest, as I see it was one that you've read already.  I shared some of it with my husband and he just shook his head.  He knows that I internalize everything.  I empathize with people/news stories/characters in books.......sometimes to an unhealthy extent (especially real people).  And, Strout's writing was so good.....it just made it all the harder for me not to feel blue.

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