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MATILDA BOOKSHOP BOOK CLUB WRAP UP OCTOBER
Thank you to all those who were part of the excavating and tender chat at our October book club.
Please read our wrap up of the chat below. Follow the links to some of the articles, reviews and books mentioned by me and others during our discussion of Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout.
Molly
In October, we discussed Elizabeth Strout's latest novel of Maine and its ordinary/extraordinary inhabitants, Tell Me Everything. Many of us were excited to enter Strout's fictional cosmos once again, being avid followers of the intimate unravelling of her staple characters, Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge... and now, Bob Burgess. Not to mention the charismatic cameos of dozens and dozens of others. And for some readers, entering Strout's world was new and unfamiliar territory. In all cases, we resonated with the celebration of storytelling that this book invokes. Stories within stories become touchstones of love and loneliness. We loved discussing Strout's own storytelling techniques, including the seeming effortlessness of her writing. It was mentioned that this effortlessness is both a strength, but also has the effect of a potential flattening of tone. There was much to unravel about the enigmatic use of weather and dialogue, as well as encompassing chat about sin-eaters, ghosts in marriages, and the use of the collective third person perspective. And more besides. Strout always delivers even if for many this wasn't a favourite of her oeuvre. MOLLY
Articles, interviews, miniseries referenced/mentioned in the sessions:
The rich and entitled are back but so are Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton on ABC RN, The Bookshelf.
Olive Kitteridge Miniseries on Apple TV
Elizabeth Strout on Inhabiting Her Characters and Writing Directly by Jane Ciabattari in LitHub
Books Mentioned:
Thank you to all the recent newcomers to book club, and of course, our longtermers: you all contribute in making this a joyous celcbration of books and shared reading.
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