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Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Catherine — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 04:20:05 +0000

In my post about the fall books I was ready to read I made special note of my excitement about Fredrik Backman’s new book, Anxious People. The novel is about a group of eight people held hostage by a bank robber. I was interested because the bank robber failed at his job and the people […]

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Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Catherine — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 08:12:30 +0000

“You can’t live in this town, you can only survive it.” There’s only one thing you need to know about Beartown: hockey. Its people live, eat, and breathe by the laws of hockey. Beyond that there isn’t much to it—only a few steady jobs, no tourists, and surrounded by forest in a part of Sweden […]

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Nonfiction November 2017: Fiction Nonfiction Pairings

Catherine — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 08:28:29 +0000

The week two event of Nonfiction November is to pair a fiction book with a nonfiction one on a similar subject. Kind of fun for those of us who use our reading as a springboard to learn more about people or events that catch our eye. For me, it is almost always a great […]

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Boo: A Novel

Catherine — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 07:13:37 +0000

You are thirteen; standing in front of your locker at school one morning and the next thing you know you wake up in an austere white room and are informed you’ve been ‘rebirthed’ into Heaven, although it’s not called Heaven it’s called Town. For most 13-year-olds this would be fairly traumatic but for Oliver, the […]

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