Olive Kitteridge book review: I Trust Elizabeth Strout

One Minute Book Review

Olive Kitteridge

by Elizabeth Strout

2008

POSTER:
In Word for Word productions,
actors read aloud the entire chapter,
including "he said, she said."

Joel Mullennix directed two chapters
from Strout's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Olive Kitteridge."

At Theater Artaud, San Francisco, Sept 2010,
& later at Standord Univ. 2011,
starring Warren David Keith & Patricia Silver.

 REVIEW:
contracostatimes.com

One of the most important things I look for in a book is: "Do I trust the writer?" 

When the writer reveals characters through what they feel or do, is this really human nature?

I'm not a fan of those family dramas, the "real life" of mature people; for example, I was unable to force myself through Judy Picoult's The Deep End of the Ocean. 

But Olive Kitteridge, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by this woman, Elizabeth Strout:

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Physicists Vote on 'Most Beautiful Equations of All Time'

illusion by donguriko

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Physics and mathematics periodicals frequently hold polls  for readers to vote on the equation they most admire. The results hold fairly stable from poll to poll. Here are some excerpts about these results:

“Some were nominated for the sheer beauty of their simplicity, some for the breadth of knowledge they capture, others for historical importance.