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Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
Nov 26, 2017 rated it really liked it
Shelves: mood-boosting-books, relationships
I know a lot of Oves. You can call them a lot of things—-grumps...curmudgeons—-but there is more to them than appears on the surface. People like Sonja look past the surface and see the depth there. It’s the charm of the story, seeing past the awful surface to the depth below, and looking closely at people who are able to do that.

Some of the thoughts I took away from the book:

After her father died, Sonja tells Ove, “You have to love me twice as much now.”

After her child was killed in an acciden ...more
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Missyjohnson1
Oct 31, 2024 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Nancy H
May 23, 2017 rated it it was amazing
What a great story! Ove is a grumpy man, at the best of times. Newly widowed, he is having a great deal of trouble dealing with his loss and with his life in general when a lively set of new neighbors moves into his neighborhood. He tries his best to continue to ignore them and to continue his very tragic plans but they keep interrupting and interfering, and in the best possible way, they draw him out of himself and bring him back to a redemption that he could never have imagined. Although there ...more
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Bogdan
Feb 10, 2021 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Absolutely the best novel I have read in years! Backman is a very keen observer of societies and various types of humans.
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Amy
Aug 22, 2015 rated it it was amazing
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Nov 21, 2016 rated it really liked it
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Jan 17, 2017 rated it liked it
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Janet
Jan 14, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Oct 28, 2016 marked it as to-read
Arpit
Jun 24, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Mary Anne
Apr 20, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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Linda Martin
Oct 16, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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Eleanor
Sep 23, 2017 marked it as to-read-own-book  ·  review of another edition
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Deborah
May 11, 2018 rated it it was amazing
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Jun 07, 2022 rated it really liked it
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May 15, 2019 rated it it was amazing
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Nov 02, 2020 rated it it was amazing
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