For what it was--the story of three siblings in the throes of their respective mid-life crises, it was okay. I never felt particularly invested in any of them, and didn't find their family dynamics compelling. I wanted to read the book because it was reviewed on public radio as well received by t...
Siblings living a life journey under the burden of a tragic accident that occurred when they were 4yrs old. Engaging character development as a family unravels and then gets put back together again. Impact of loss on life and perspective, bigotry, living with fear, declining small town reaction...
LA COSTRUZIONE DI UN ATTIMOHo fatto un sogno stanotte: ero andato a trovare Elizabeth e lei mi preparava un caffè, profumato robusto dolce, pura libidine, e intanto mi spiegava che il caffè americano si fa in tanti modi, che quello che conta è la tostatura, e la mano di chi lo prepara - si va da...
In questo momento sono ancora in adorazione.L'oggetto di questa mia smodata ammirazione è Elizabeth Strout. Cominciavo a temere di dover dire addio ai cinque mensili. Di solito fra letture mediamente piacevoli, c'era sempre quella chicca, che in qualche modo incoronava il mese. Ultimamente la med...
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge mus...
I was agitated; I wanted to cry. When my own children cried I fell to pieces, I would kiss them and see what was wrong. Maybe I did it too much. And when I had had an argument with William, I sometimes cried, and I learned early that he was not a man who hated to hear a woman cry, as many men are...
Exciting to think how in one year, at rate of one page/day, will have written three hundred and sixty-five pages, and what a picture of life and times then available for kids & grandkids, even great-grandkids, whoever, all are welcome (!) to see how life really was/is now. Because what do we ...