Colleen V. (colleenvo) reviewed on 12/18/2009 + 5 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 1

I went into this book expecting it to be some sort of epic tale and maybe even a little life-changing. It, sadly, was not. I found this book, right from the beginning, to have an overall depressing tone and as I kept reading it just got more depressing. I think this was an espcially poor choice of reading right around the holidays. Each person's "tale" linked back to the main character, Olive Kittredge but not in a major way. For some people she was only their teacher and they might have mentioned her one time. I really wanted the characters to be more "connected" to Olive. Olive was definitely a unique character and I did enjoy a lot of her dialogue. One good thing I can say about this book is that it made me feel a lot more thankful and grateful for what I have in my life and to not take anything for granted. I really do think it addresses some of my deep fears but in the end didn't really make me feel any better about them. It just caused me to think more about them. I won't be passing this book on to anyone else. I don't think it's worth their time.

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