January 09 OLIVE KITTERIDGE IS A FINALIST FOR THE
2008 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
Finished Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout last night.
The last essay, called River, is about Olive falling in love again,
in her seventies, with a man she initially didn't care for.
Her courtship behavior is typically Olive: straightforward, blunt.
She's always using expressions I love.
In the final sentences, Olive ponders "what young people
don't know... that love was not to be tossed away carelessly,
as if it were a tart on a platter with others that got passed
around again." Read this one. Don't miss it.
Yesterday was one of those
crystal-blue days that appear end-of-August, early
September. At the shore, I asked my friend, who
is a Mary Kay lady, what the new colors were for fall.
She said something wise:
"Take care of your skin." That's more important
than the latest look.
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