Tag: Elizabeth Strout

• My Top Ten of 2024

  With only two days of 2024 left, I think my reading stats are pretty set in stone, unless I finish off one more book before the ball drops on New Year’s Eve so I can end on an even number. I had a good reading year but my total number of books is a bit…

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  December 29, 2024

  books

  Amazon, Ann Napolitano, ARC, audiobook, book-review, books, Deborah Serra, Diane Parrish, Ebook, Elinor Lipman, Elizabeth Strout, Evie Woods, fiction, Katherine Center, Kindle, literature, NetGalley, novel, reading, Ruth Reichl, Sophia Kinsella, Susan Rieger], top ten, writer, writing

• Book Review—Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put by Annie B. Jones

  Most writers are also avid readers. However, not everyone who reads a lot can write, or even wants to write at all. In fact, there are some people who are great writers who don’t read much at all. This book, Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put by Annie B. Jones, is by an avid…

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  November 6, 2024

  books, Essay

  Annie B. Jones, book-review, books, bookstore, Elizabeth Strout, essays, Florida, From the Front Porch, Georgia, Gretchen Rubin, HarperOne, indie, library, NetGalley, nonfiction, NYC, Ordinary Time, reading, Southern, Tallahassee, Tell Me Everything, The Bookshelf, Thomasville, vacation, writer, writing

• Book Review: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

  When I saw the news on social media that Elizabeth Strout had a new book coming out, I immediately began lobbying for an ARC, not out of greed or professional desire, but I just couldn’t wait all the way to August 13th to read another Strout work of art. Yes, I knew it would be…

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  May 30, 2024

  books, Essay

  Bob Burgess, book-review, death, Elizabeth Strout, friendship, grief, Lucy Barton, Maine, novel, Olive Kitteridge, Oprah’s Book Club, reading, social media, suicide, unrecorded lives, writer, writing

• Book Review: The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, translated by Jesse Kirkwood

  If you know me at all, you will know that Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout changed me, as a reader, as a writer, and as a person. Olive Kitteridge was the first book I read that looked like a novel, but was instead a series of short stories that were woven together such that it…

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  May 1, 2024

  books, Essay, food

  book-review, book-reviews, books, chopsticks, detectives, Elizabeth Strout, fiction, food, Hisashi Kashiwai, Japan, Japanese food, Jesse Kirkwood, mysteries, novel, Olive Kitteridge, reading, short stories, writing

• Book Review: Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout

  Elizabeth Strout changed my life as a reader, and more importantly, as a writer. If you read my review of Strout’s Oh William, you know that I was introduced to Strout’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel Olive Kitteridge by my local librarian. While reading Strout’s masterpiece of thirteen interwoven short stories, I finally (FINALLY) came up…

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  August 19, 2022

  books

  Amgash Series, coronavirus, covid, Elizabeth Strout, Lucy Barton, Lucy by the Sea, Maine, Oh William, pandemic

• Book Review: Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (Random House, October 2021)

  My last in-person visit to my local public library was on Thursday, March 12, 2020, to pick up a bag of books “just in case” the whole coronavirus thing was really a thing. Ha! The K-8 elementary school where I taught sent us home that day with instructions to be prepared to teach via Zoom…

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  May 29, 2021

  books, Grammar for Grownups

  Elizabeth Strout, Lucy Barton, Oh William!, Olive Again, Olive Kitteridge