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There is so much right with this book.
I'm so lucky as to share a lot of the memories in this book, I know how things feel and smell and so on. Even though there are 50 years between the time this book takes place and my childhood, not a lot seems to have changed.
I don't know what it's like to read this when you can't feel this immediate connection with your own childhood.
And the writing, even though it is, especially at the beginning, much more simple than other Lindgren books (which makes sense ...more
