relationships

This is the first book I've read by this popular author, best known, I think, for the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. An Edinburgh neighbourhood of characters interact with each other, falling in love, manoeuvering for advantage, discovering small truths and unwittingly displaying their vulnerabilities.

I found the blurb interesting and different to the usual storylines. I was eager to read the whole story to discover how the conflicts and the relationship between the H/h develops with everything they have against them.

 144. Olive Kitteridge: A Novel in Stories ARC – Elizabeth Strout, Random Books, (April 2008), ISBN: (9781400062089), 270p.

Featuring: Olive Kitteridge and various others

Contains some interesting little quizzes that place you on the male/female trait continuum on things like driving and map reading.

Another entertaining and informative (if slightly biased) read from Mr. Pease. Be wary of some of his assertions, however, as some have been proven false, e.g. that men in the “stone age” provided the majority of the food for social units (outdated; anthropologists now believe differently).