I think one of the things I enjoyed most about the book is that the author doesn’t shy away from showing John Ames as a multifaceted man who struggles with his own doubts, and even has his own questions when it comes to theology. I appreciated that he doesn’t have all the answers,...
Book Review: A Man Called Ove August 25, 2022Posted inBooksLeave a comment My Rating: Goodreads Summary: A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at...
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman “Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”“The Twithead with the Dragon Tattoo” by Charlotte Moore in Dragonwriter “May I never be too old to have a birthday, and you to make magic of it!” Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Pro...
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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman #bookreview I purchased this book for my own collection. Publisher: Atria Books Published: May 15, 2015 Summary: All you need is Ove. At first sight, Ove is almost certainly the grumpiest man you will ever meet, a curmudgeon with staunch principles, st...
Title:A Man Called Ove Author:Fredrik Backman Goodreads Summary:A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars...
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Favorite books read last year?Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walkby Kathleen Rooney,Between Shades of Grayby Ruta Sepetys andA Man Called Oveby Fredrik Backman. Favorite books of all time?Going to make you work for this one. Clickhere!!
My niggling began when I read about a hundred times in Goodreads reviews: “It was like the author ran out of ideas, so they copy-and-pasted some random paragraphs from an abandoned draft and called it plot advancement.” Now, if we’re writers as well as readers, we’re very aware ...
I looove going to the Boston Public Library, especially to browse travel and cookbooks. There is a book written by my brother in law’s friend that I love. It’s called Juno and Juliet and it’s by Julian Gough. A great story about twin sisters living in college in Galway Ireland whe...