I am finishing the final book in Fredrik Backman's trilogy about the small hockey-obsessed town in the woods. When I started the first book a few months ago and realized it was about hockey I figured I would just return it to our ECP library. But the setting, the characters and the layered story caught me. Beartown was a good read! Then came Us Against You to continue the saga. I read them and handed them off to Dave (who played hockey growing up and all the way through high school).
And now I am 300 pages into The Winners once again drawn into the story and the people who "live" in Beartown.
I don't know if this novel will stand up to the first two and if I will be "satisfied" at the end. But so far there have been many sentences that made me stop to re-read them.
"Our children never warn us that they're thinking of growing up, one day they're just too big to want to hold our hand, it's just as well we never know when the last time is going to be or we'd never let go. They drive you mad when they're little, yelling every time you leave the room, because you don't realize at the time that whenever someone yells 'Daddy!' that means you're important. It's hard to get used to not being important."
"....but when some people die it's like watching the string on a balloon snap. We don't miss what she was but what we lose when she isn't there."
I think Backman's novels just grab me because of his style, his way with words. I love books that make me just stop....and re-read.
No comments:
Post a Comment