everything is better with chocolate, including bread (placemat by La FABBRICA del LINO) On a recent visit to a local bookstore, I purchased Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout1. A friend had told me the movie was really good, but I rarely watch TV, so the recommendation made me buy the book. I loved every page of it. The writing is superb and the characters of the stories are drawn with delicacy, precision and empathy. I also like the author's choice in writing a collection of short stories, rather than a novel. In some of them Olive is the protagonist, in others... Read more →