Book Club! In Short Reviews.

Book Club! In Short Reviews is Hummingbird’s new book review series. We say “Book Club” because we really want to get a conversation going if you are so inclined! Please feel free to comment in the “Comments” section below the byline or by clicking here and sending it to us. We will repost the review with your comments. We are trying this shortened format because we know everyone is so busy—with their “usual” life and then pandemic life piled on top! We are only posting recommended reads and are rating them recommend, strongly recommend, or MUST READ! Let us know what you think. All reviews are by Hummingbird contributors.

Olive, Again

Elizabeth Strout

Rating: Strongly Recommend

The unforgettable Olive Kitterridge is with us again and how fortunate we are. In Olive, Again we meet up with her as she moves forward into the next decade of her life with a new husband sometimes at her side. She’s not necessarily wiser, not always likable, still tart. But she’s trying hard to understand her own life and the people who live around her, the people she knows for better or worse, everyone looking for some kind of redemption. Olive continued to surprise me, even to move me, a superb book filled with the pain and goodness of our own lives as we, too, move forward. Strongly recommended!
Review by Lynda Bernard.