Like a box of chocolates (and yes, there's a little Forest Gumplike thing going on) I gobbled up one story after another, not without pleasure. A novel "made for book clubs" - short and sweet in little bites, embracing all themes female, overweight, overwrought and aging, whereby Olive Kitteridge is either central or weirdly inserted for a cameo. Worth the ride and the read, the stories get better as they get going and a few are genuinely and completely hilarious. (Now come on, who doesn't love Olive?)