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Olive Kitteridge Paperback – September 30, 2008
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All of the stories in this book occur in the town of Crosby, Maine. At the center of many of the book's stories is the person, Olive Kitteridge, a retired teacher. In the stories that don't feature Olive, her name may appear only once in an effort to tie it to the larger work. That the stories center on one town, and a limited number of that town's inhabitants, who also reappear from time to time, I did not encounter my usual problems with short stories. This book gently reminded me of what is best about short-stories: a brief slice of a life, a snapshot that tells a complete-enough story. In having all these stories bound together, one feels a bit like the proverbial "fly on the wall"; a fly who may spend most of, but certainly not all, it's time in one particularly interesting home (Olive's).
I especially enjoyed reading about Olive in her post-retirement years, the ways in which she deals with other people and herself. In many ways, I can identify with Olive, having doled out bits of malice in angering situations; or having been soft and tender-hearted during others. Like Olive, I too have been both fool and sage.
I really enjoyed "Olive Kitteridge." Olive is a complex person vacillating between viciousness and compassion. In the way all people are puzzles, so is Olive. In one story she does something deplorable, in another she potentially saves a life.Read more ›
You know that feeling when you're just starting a book? Getting acquainted with the characters? Trying to remember their names, their personalities, what they look like and the surroundings are just coming into focus? This entire book has that feeling because essentially each chapter is a different story. With the exception of Olive, you never hear about a character beyond one chapter. It's as if twenty books were collected, a chapter ripped from each, and placed in this single book. You're introduced, learn the character and are drawn to their story and then it's onto somebody else, never to return and find any conclusions.
I just did not like the separation between story lines. True, this is meant to be a small town collaboration, with Olive as the center character, but sometimes it was a stretch. One particular chapter only mentions Olive once, in a fragment of a sentence that just mentions Olive was the character's teacher in school. Sometimes it just didn't seem the connection was enough to warrant that particular character's inclusion of the story of Olive and ended up being more of a distraction than an addition.
There are also a lot of overlapping details and re-telling of facts. Each person knows Olive, so you hear numerous times her description and certain facts in her life, concerning her marriage or her son. At the end you are very connected to Olive and it is a wonderful character and story.Read more ›
Many of the stories do deal with Olive or her family directly, and we come to know her throughout the book, through her husband's experience of "crushing" on an employee in the first story to her own experiences as she ages and her life changes by the final story. But in other stories, she is a minor character, perhaps mentioned briefly as the main character's former math teacher in high school or as someone another character does not like.
And this aspect become fundamental and almost a secondary theme of the book. As Olive herself remembers her own serious flirtation with another man ("... she had the sensation that she had been seen. And she had not even known she'd felt invisible" [p. 213].), and progresses through later stages of life, we come to see that she is not perfectly lovable -- or perhaps not lovable at all, up close. But she still needs intimacy. "Sometimes, like now, Olive had a sense of just how desperately hard every person in the world was working to get what they needed" (p. 211). She is an emotional anti-hero, and through Strout's tender writing, we do love her.
One of my favorite stories was "Starving" which deals nimbly with all of these subjects, and doesn't feature Olive primarily. Strout's writing is straight-forward, but thoughtful and tender. These people became real to me. I miss them now that I have finished the book.
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Character development and stories fully realized beyond all expectations. Here you'll find short stories integrated with characters unexpectedly reappearing over time. Read morePublished 3 hours ago by Richard Warren
I checked this book out electronically from my local library (a great service by the way!) because I had seen the book at the store many times and new it was well regarded. Read morePublished 2 days ago by Scott Hammond
These 13 stories revolving around a small group of people living in a coastal Maine town is deeply moving and thought provoking. Read morePublished 5 days ago by Mark D. Wilson
The various chapters, or vignettes, in this book are interesting as stand-alone stories. To me, the coherence of them all, in terms of making a single book, is somewhat lacking. Read morePublished 6 days ago by Richard S. Wells
Elizabeth Strout is an amazing story teller and obviously has fabulous insights into people, love reading any of her novels!Published 9 days ago
Great characterisation, wonderful observations, just a pity that the last chapter duplicated so much content from one of her other books, The Burgess Boys.Published 9 days ago by Bronwen Nicholson
Each story, each character delves into the human psyche with truth of joy and despair. The order of the stories seems arbitrary, but actually spins a web that leads back to Olive... Read morePublished 16 days ago by Janie Scott


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The village of Ospedale Maffucci is 2,11 kilometers far from the same town of Avellino to whom it belongs.
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Pumpkin Gingerbread Trifle
|Gingerbread cake mix
|29 Ounce (2 Packages, 14 1/2 Ounces Each)
|Cook and serve vanilla pudding mix
|4 1⁄2 Ounce (1 Package)
|3 Cup (48 tbs)
|Canned solid pack pumpkin
|29 Ounce (1 Can)
|Packed brown sugar
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Frozen whipped topping
|12 Ounce, thawed, divided (1 Carton)
Prepare and bake gingerbread according to the package directions, using two greased 9-in.round baking pans.
Cool completely on wire racks.
Meanwhile, for pudding, in a large saucepan, combine pudding mix and milk; stir until smooth.
Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil.
Cook and stir for 1-2 minutes longer or until thickened.
Remove from heat; cool to room temperature.
Combine pumpkin and brown sugar; stir into pudding.
In a 4-qt. glass serving bowl, crumble one gingerbread cake; gently press down.
Top with half of the pudding mixture and whipped topping.
Repeat layers.
Cover and refrigerate overnight.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 6556 Calories from Fat 1024
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 166 g255.9%
Saturated Fat 92.8 g464.1%
Trans Fat 24 g
Cholesterol 67.8 mg22.6%
Sodium 7942.4 mg330.9%
Total Carbohydrates 1218 g405.8%
Dietary Fiber 23.8 g95.4%
Sugars 826.3 g
Protein 70 g139.6%
Vitamin A 2573.3% Vitamin C 57.6%
Calcium 172.9% Iron 158%
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Suspects jailed in theft from Marinwood school
There are 26 comments on the Marin Independent Journal story from May 10, 2010, titled Suspects jailed in theft from Marinwood school. In it, Marin Independent Journal reports that:A Marinwood man and a Novato woman were arrested in connection with a theft at Marin Waldorf School in Marinwood, the sheriff's department reported Monday.
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#1 May 10, 2010
give them both a year in jail and let them buy new stuff that was stolen . let them know if they want it so much they have to pay for it and then after they do the jail time kick them out of the county for good .
#2 May 10, 2010
Glad their concentrating on the "real criminals"! I guess it's better than a seat belt ticket?
#3 May 10, 2010
Oh OK dog thanks for your input. Now please move on
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#4 May 10, 2010
we do not need dumb and stupid criminals like these scums in the county
#5 May 10, 2010
Garrett Hanalei Kaopua. I wonder if he's any relation to the guy who was found dead in a carport at a trailer park just down the street from Marinwood in San Rafael? They had the same last name. How sad if this is true. He needs help so not to repeat the same mistakes the person that went before him did.
#6 May 10, 2010
Is this another winner from Samoa?
#7 May 11, 2010
this is tuesday morning what has this scum learned in jail ? keep him in lock up for a year and let him but new stuff for the school .and then kick his butt out of the county for good, but then we could wack off a hand, maybe that would be better. what would happen if he were in Singapore ?
#9 May 11, 2010
Yes it is. And yes it's sad.... How nice of you not to judge like all these other idiots!
#10 May 11, 2010
So.... Not cool.. That's some BAD karma right there...
#11 May 11, 2010
Karma? And some pretty screwed up women too. Abandoned kids, cultural confusion and plenty of alienation from their parents.
#12 May 11, 2010
I do belive it is Hawaiian....
#13 May 11, 2010
Wow same family? Psycho nut doesnt fall far from the tree now does it?
Time to eradicate and bug bomb that house on Elderberry with the family of drug cracked out crackheads in it. How many more crimes does this house have to have before it is considered a nuisance? Dude has been wandering streets during the day stealing crap out of garages for a week now and finally gets caught at Burger King? I would have this halfway house for crack addicts under surveillance 24/7 and arrest anyone who "visits" or "drops by to say hi". So wonderful to have this house back up to your kids school isnt it? Maybe one day we can hope theres a drug shooting there or a meth fire to burn the house down maybe that will discourage the scumbags who visit and live there daily.
#14 May 11, 2010
Oh nice IJ bleep out the word skum bags. great censorship there.
Maybe i should change it to "catch bags of the skimmings off of a sewer reclamation pond" see if your censor can catch that?
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#15 May 11, 2010
First of all....Garrett is the son of Marcus (may he rest in peace), but Marcus WAS NOT found in a trailer park! Don't try and make him seem like a low life. He owned the house that he passed away in. Some people fall into bad things and have a hard time coming out of them. As for Garrett and hoe bag Kim...they do deserve to spend time in jail for the things that they have been doing. I know Garrett from a past relationship and the man he is now is not who I knew. Kim is a crack out slut and she does more worse things then he does, she just doesn't get caught...maybe for the fact that she's a female...IDK!
#16 May 11, 2010
probation means nothing in Marin courts so why even mention it in articles.
#17 May 11, 2010
Lock up these career criminals for good -- nothing but no-goods and never-will-be's.
#18 May 11, 2010
Potayto....Potahto - House that can be moved is a mobile home- Houses with wheels that can be moved are in a Mobile Home park.. how they move houses on wheels is on a TRAILER..so where they PARK these houses is a Trailer Park. Its ok you can admit it.. you lived in a trailer park with him. Its not as bad as the flea bag canal area.
So by your logic we shouldnt count his actions for present day what he has done.. only when you "knew him" 20 years ago when he was a good boy and wasnt into trouble? Nice try..
He wasnt a low life..but look who surrounded him.. low lifes.
Sorry to be harsh..but read your story again and this article and tell me how everyone involved in this case and the past case isnt a complete and udder waste of societies time and money and a complete low life! Trying to put all the blame on her is a cop out.. it takes 2 to tango. If he was such a good guy he would have booted her out long ago.
Im sure John Wayne Gacy and Charles Manson's fathers were nice guys too especially if you were in a relationship with them.
#19 May 11, 2010
just keep them in jail or wack a hand off they will learn not take if they do not pay first .
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#20 May 11, 2010
I don't know who you are and why you care so much about these people...but maybe you should read what I wrote one more time. Marcus died at his home in San Venitia, at his house. I'm glad you can give a definition on a "mobile home" and that things with wheels are able to move...I graduated high school and went to college, so I know what a mobile home and a trailer park is..Thanks!
And I'm not blaming everything that Garrett does on Kim. I'm not saying I knew Garrett 20 years ago either. I met him 5 years ago and was in a 3 year relationship with him. My daughter called him "daddy", he held a job and was a decent guy. Obviously no one is perfect, but after he met this "hood rat" named Kim, he started making very poor choices. He is an adult and can make choices for himself, but when you have influences from people who are scum walking this earth, it's easy to become that. I'm not saying what he is doing with his life right now is right, I just know what type of person he can be and I feel sorry for him....to a point. But I do agree that he should spend time in jail for what he has done.
#21 May 11, 2010
5 years hard labor.
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