Tag: Lucy Barton

• 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…

  michardillo

  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: 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…

  michardillo

  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…

  michardillo

  May 29, 2021

  books, Grammar for Grownups

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