A man called Ove

Us against you by

originally published as Vi mot er; translated by Neil Smith Beartown ; book 2 It has been a while since I read this. I think I finished it at the start...

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It’s so easy to place your hope in people. To think that the world can change overnight. We demonstrate after an attack, we donate money after a disaster, we lay our...

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Perhaps one day he’ll find words for that feeling of being different. How physical it is. Exclusion is a form of exhaustion that eats its way into your skeleton. People who...

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It’s always the aggressors’ feelings we have to defend. As if they’re the ones who need our understanding. Fredrik Backman – Us against You – pg. 280

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The comment section does what the comment section always does: smells blood and catches fire. Fredrick Backman – Us against you – pg. 147

The scandal by

also published as Beartown I was going to say that I recently read Backman’s breakout novel A man called Over, but then I checked the blog and discovered that it was...

A man called Ove by

Ove is a man who knows what is right, and what is wrong. The rules are there for a reason, and just because every body else in society seems to have...