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Beartown is a small town that is slowly disappearing back into the forest. The town has pinned it's hopes on the junior hockey team who has made it to the semifinals. During the day of the semifinal match a horrible event occurs. This book is very different from a Man Called Ove. There is very little in this book that will make a reader happy. Mostly, especially in the second half of the book, I was angry at most of the characters. There are still moments of humor and plenty of moments that made
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This was more emotional with fewer chuckles than the other Fredrik Backman books I've read and loved. I actually took a break in the middle because I found it too stressful.
Backman manages to tackle many serious issues in this book, and delves into each via his deep understanding of humanity, in all its ugliness and beauty, violence, cruelty, and loving gentleness. There are so many powerful characters in this book...real (to me now) people who need to be both strong and kind.
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Backman manages to tackle many serious issues in this book, and delves into each via his deep understanding of humanity, in all its ugliness and beauty, violence, cruelty, and loving gentleness. There are so many powerful characters in this book...real (to me now) people who need to be both strong and kind.
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Wow! What a read! Nothing like I expected. I was expecting something like A Man Called Ove or Britt-Marie Was Here but Beartown is the opposite of them. Told through multiple eyes with a narrator putting his comments in throughout the book, it is a very intense read. There are some good one-liners that made me laugh out loud but there is more about our humanness and how we fail to live up to that humanness in this book. It is the teens who do the teaching here. Some show loyalty by sticking by t
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Another automatic author for me, I don't ever read the synopsis of Backman's books anymore; regardless of what they're about I know I will love it. I know I can count on characters that are flawed but redeemable, characters that are irredeemable, characters that are comic relief and characters that will break your heart. All of them are in Beartown, as well as a lot of hockey, and a lot of small town smallness, which if you've ever lived in a small town, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
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Feb 09, 2018
Michelle (MichelleBookAddict)
marked it as to-read
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