I read this book for a book club that I’m a part of. When we voted on our July selection, I deliberately did not cast mine for this book. Because I just KNEW. I could tell from the description that it was one of those books that was going to make me cry. Apparently this is something that lots of people enjoy however, and I was outvoted. The titular character is a middle-aged Swedish man named Ove, who has lost his wife and his job […]
This man called Ove seems vaguely familiar
Minor spoilers ahead. I suspect everyone has at least one curmudgeon in their life–that grump, that sourpuss, that malcontent who seemed to emerge from the womb yelling, “Turn that damn music down!” In certain hipster circles, they may refer to it as Early Onset Grumpiness. Now, I’m not trying to throw shade at any particular person in my life, but when I asked my husband whether he’d consider driving a Saab if they still made them, I got a ten minute lecture about how Saabs […]
A book that I purchased solely based on judging it’s cover.
I’m so stereotypically Canadian, that I picked this up because of the hockey game on the cover. True story. #sorrynotsorry Beartown is a small rural village (in what I’m assuming is Sweden, although I don’t think it ever specified) that is slowly dying. Their only hope for economic revival is their junior hockey team – a championship win will secure them as the site for a new elite hockey academy which will bring people and businesses back to the area. But before that final game, […]
That was lovely.
Best for: I don’t know. Everyone? In a nutshell: A man’s suicide attempts are repeatedly foiled by his incompetent neighbors. Line that sticks with me: “Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.” Why I chose it: I found myself in a a bookstore and saw that this was on sale. I figured it was finally time to check it out. Review: Some very mild, non-specific spoilers follow. Two novels in a row, both dealing with the issue of […]
I laughed, I cried, I considered buying a Saab.
Sometimes a story is able to take you someplace else. But even better, sometimes you become so immersed in a particular fictional world, you don’t ever want to leave. That’s what happened to me when I listened to A Man Called Ove, the most recent pick from my new book club (and a huge step up from our first pick!!). Not only did I feel like I was right in Ove’s Swedish neighborhood, experiencing everything that happened in the book, but it made me want to […]
“Because not all monsters were monsters in the beginning. Some are monsters born of sorrow.”
This was pretty good. Not as good as A Man Called Ove, but still pretty good. “People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will “lessen as time passes,” but it isn’t true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn’t be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyze us. So in the end we just […]
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