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Pros & Cons
Pros
Frederik backman once again delivers a compelling and heartfelt tale. As usual, his characterizations are flawless. He also does a great job in how the character's lives intertwine.
The book has the ability to make a reader laugh out loud and * with heartache all within a few pages. It is a book filled with hope and a story that will touch the heart of even the most stoic. Over the course of the book their stories and interrelati... Read More
It is an emotional rollercoaster that has such a good message and point. It’s sweet and sad, realistic and thought invoking. A hug, a cathartic story.
It can make the people left behind want to stop living’. A grieving mother. And an anxious soldier. And a hundred other people.
Cons
If you’ve stumbled across this review, i implore you to read other reviews as well. The characters are well-developed but the endless interwoven fair tales mess up the read. There were noticeable inconsistencies in his writing too.
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Quality
A wonderful story of how elsa copes with the death of her grandmother by getting to know her neighbors
The type of people you find yourself watching and wishing you could keep up with the way their brains work
And i will end with the question i asked my students
After her granny dies elsa hates when they say that granny passed away she is faced with the task of delivering letters to people
Packaging/appearance
You never say goodbye in the landofalmostawake
Competitiveness
Another book that has you looking at life alittle differently
“no one normal has ever changed a crapping thing
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- This product had a total of 9,174 reviews as of our last analysis date on Nov 2 2022.
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The first book of backman’s that i read was a man called ove
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This book however is in a different stratosphere
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I really don’t need twenty words or more
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I loved this the first time i read it
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I didnt know who the author was and it took me awhile to even catch on that this was not originally written in english its translated so well that i was confident it was written by someone who speaks british english instead of american english until a comment that a character made
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There are no villains in his stories that don’t at least get afforded the same understanding that everyone else gets as well
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So far i have only read this one and a man called ove
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I will be buying his next book as soon as i stop writing this review
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