{"id":6521,"date":"2019-11-29T14:40:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T19:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2019-11-29T14:44:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T19:44:54","slug":"olive-again-by-elizabeth-strout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/?p=6521","title":{"rendered":"Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Amazon Ember',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">She\u2019s baaaaack. Elizabeth Strout\u2019s 2008 novel, <\/span><em>Olive Kitteridge<\/em><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Amazon Ember',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">, won the Pulitze<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"color: #333333; float: left; font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot; times new roman&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;bitstream charter&amp;quot;,times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; height: auto; letter-spacing: normal; max-width: 100%; orphans: 2; outline-color: #72777c; outline-style: solid; outline-width: 1px; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51fu2JUE-1L._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"120\" \/>r Prize and spawned a hit HBO miniseries starring Frances McDormand and Bill Murray. In <\/span><em>Olive, Again<\/em><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Amazon Ember',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"> she resurrects the endearing curmudgeon from Crosby, Maine in thirteen interconnected stories that remind us that you\u2019re never too old to grow up. As the book opens, Olive is being wooed, in a manner of speaking, by fellow widow Jack Kennison. Even he is at a loss to explain the precise reasons for his affection for her, but as we see Olive fumbling through everyday life\u2014still grappling with its disappointments and mysteries\u2014we recognize a kindred soul. <\/span><em>Olive, Again<\/em><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Amazon Ember',Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\"> is not what you would call a page-turner. There are the none of the requisite heart-racing moments, but a steady beat of ordinary magic (which ends up being not so ordinary at all). <\/span><em>&#8211;Erin Kodicek, Amazon Book Review<\/em><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s baaaaack. Elizabeth Strout\u2019s 2008 novel, Olive Kitteridge, won the Pulitzer Prize and spawned a hit HBO miniseries starring Frances McDormand and Bill Murray. In Olive, Again she resurrects the endearing curmudgeon from Crosby, Maine in thirteen interconnected stories that remind us that you\u2019re never too old to grow up. As the book opens, Olive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6524,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions\/6524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}