Contest Winner Ziggy, you’re it! Pick a Funk & Weber pattern, any pattern. Great answers. Kat, you cracked me up! Harriet, awesome poem! Although, I will argue strenuously about the claim that […]
Contest Winner + S4L Book Club – The Help
She’s Back! (Catching Up)
Apologies and Excuses I know, I know. I’ve been MIA for more than a month with no warning or explanation. Again. I’m sorry. I’ve been away, and though I continued to work, […]
S4L Book Club – Olive Kittridge
I really liked the story “Security,” where Olive visits Christopher and his new wife, Ann, in New York. I like that the relationship between Chris and Olive is finally exposed. We get […]
S4L Book Club – Olive Kittridge
In a recent comment, Shelly mentions “Olive’s affair.” I’m guessing it’s a reference to Olive’s feelings for Jim O’Casey, as opposed to her budding feelings for Jack Kennison at the end of […]
S4L Book Club – Olive Kittridge
One of the canned questions about this book is as follows: In “A Different Road,” Strout writes about Olive and Henry: “No, they would never get over that night because they had […]
S4L Book Club – Olive Kittridge
What do you think of Olive? Do you like her? Do you know anyone like her or see any part of yourself in her? Do you believe the transformation she seems to […]
