Book #5 |
Book: Tell Me Everything | Author: Elizabeth Strout | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Large print |
Pages: 326 | Duration: 01/16/26 – 01/18/26 (3 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★★ | Genres: fiction, friendship, family, love | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Lucy and Bob share an incredibly intimate, but nonsexual, relationship. 🖌6-word review: Elizabeth Strout at her absolute best. |
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| 💭A memorable quote: “She had apparently not remembered the time — weeks ago — that she had asked him to write the letter B on the back of her underpants, and he did not remind her that she had one more pair — the pair she had been wearing — which needed a B; he did not want to embarrass her.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: schlumpy, snot-wot | |||
| Description:* 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 nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, befriends one of Crosby’s longest inhabitants, 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.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: This is book #5 in a 5-book series, of which I first read book #4, Lucy by the Sea, then book #3, Oh William!, both of which I loved. Having enjoyed both of those so much, I decided to read the other 3 books in the series. So, next I read book #1, My Name is Lucy Barton, which I didn’t love at all, and which unfortunately, was the case with book #2, Anything is Possible! I know if I’d’ve read them in order, I would have stopped after books #1 & #2. I’m happy to say that this final book was on par, if not the best, of the 5-book series! I just love this author’s voice, and I loved the appearance in this book of Olive Kitteridge, who is the titular character in another of this author’s book, which I loved. So to recap about the series: I recommend skipping books #1 and #2 and reading books #3, #4, & #5. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2026 and previous years: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
