Just finished Abide With Me.
I am now reading The Burgess Boys.
Perfect airplane, packing, distracting novels for my life right now.
Here's what Strout says in her Reader's Guide to the Trade Paperback edition of Abide With Me. Something to remember, for sure.
"A book, once finished, belongs to the reader, and each reader will bring to it his or her own life's experiences... it should be a different book for each person who reads it."
And this.
"Through the telling of stories and the reading of stories, we have a chance to see something about ourselves and others that maybe we knew, but didn't know we knew. We can wonder for a moment if, for all our separate histories, we are not more alike than different after all."
Perfect, right?
And guess what- she has a new book, coming January, 2016. Can't wait!
Loved Olive Kitteridge. Now you're making me want to check out her other books. Love the quote from Reader's Guide to Abide with Me.
ReplyDeleteI hear the new book is quite good, though not much plot. I'll take it!
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