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Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club: A Novel
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. With her "extraordinary capacity for radical empathy" (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters--Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more--as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, "What does anyone's life mean?" It's autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive's apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known--"unrecorded lives," Olive calls them--reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning. Brimming with empathy and pathos, Tell Me Everything is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, "Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love."
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If you had asked me last night, I would have given this book 4 or 5 stars but now it’s a 2 or 3.
I really loved this book and was invested. The ending wasn’t predictable, which I liked, but so many other parts of it were. I really thought this book had such good potential but the ending was so disappointing and underwhelming.
I really loved this book and was invested. The ending wasn’t predictable, which I liked, but so many other parts of it were. I really thought this book had such good potential but the ending was so disappointing and underwhelming.
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There were a lot of words and too many chapters, way too many to say so little.
Absolutely nothing happens until the very end, the main character is so annoying, and I hate that I got to "see" why she did all the stupid stuff she did only until the very end. It would have been so much more fun if the big reveal had been done earlier (Never Saw Me Coming is a great counterpoint, though on the very extreme) it wasn't a real surprise, it wasn't thrilling, it was boring, I was so bored for 4/5 of the book it took me over a month to finish it. Also, the back and forth between years, and the chapter cuts when the story was being lineal were so distracting.
And oh my, that ending was so... off-putting. I hope there won't be a sequel telling about the three others that we don't get to know...?
I'm really mad because of Max (One of the Two liked characters) and how pointless it all was.
And there were so many characters that were pointless or under used, for such a long book -where NOTHING happens- we get to learn very little about the other members of the group, then the time gap between freshman and senior years where... Nothing Worth Mentioning Happens At All? really? unbelievable. And the constant reminders that the main character is "Not like other girls", how smart and good at everything she does, how mature and detached is. Yes, it makes sense at the end, but... I could have liked her better if I had know earlier, instead I had a lot of eye rolls and "I cant deal with this girl right now" moments.
Also, not the dog!
I'm giving it two stars for the two characters that I liked. What a waste of time!
Absolutely nothing happens until the very end, the main character is so annoying, and I hate that I got to "see" why she did all the stupid stuff she did only until the very end. It would have been so much more fun if the big reveal had been done earlier (Never Saw Me Coming is a great counterpoint, though on the very extreme) it wasn't a real surprise, it wasn't thrilling, it was boring, I was so bored for 4/5 of the book it took me over a month to finish it. Also, the back and forth between years, and the chapter cuts when the story was being lineal were so distracting.
And oh my, that ending was so... off-putting. I hope there won't be a sequel telling about the three others that we don't get to know...?
I'm really mad because of Max (One of the Two liked characters) and how pointless it all was.
And there were so many characters that were pointless or under used, for such a long book -where NOTHING happens- we get to learn very little about the other members of the group, then the time gap between freshman and senior years where... Nothing Worth Mentioning Happens At All? really? unbelievable. And the constant reminders that the main character is "Not like other girls", how smart and good at everything she does, how mature and detached is. Yes, it makes sense at the end, but... I could have liked her better if I had know earlier, instead I had a lot of eye rolls and "I cant deal with this girl right now" moments.
Also, not the dog!
I'm giving it two stars for the two characters that I liked. What a waste of time!
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