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Weekly Reading Update || 19th July

Read This Week

The L.O.V.E. Club: This made a season of Pretty Little Liars look like a hard hitting docu-drama. Absolutely senseless plot that kept getting more ridiculous. 1/5

Owls Do Cry: Surreal and beautifully told, the way the author took events and people from her own life really enriched the story. 5/5

Currently Reading

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Fredrik Backman is so good at spending 100 pages letting me form an opinion on a character and then completely unraveling it with one single devastating line

#like both for characters I love and hate #the line that made me completely 180 on Britt-Marie comes like 200 pages into MGSHRAA #I'm reading Bear Town and like my switch up on Kevin was obv expected but Bobo????? you're making me emotional over fucking Bobo????#Backman will really write the meanest most annoying character in the world #and then in a single line of dialogue you will understand them completely and entirely #and to me that is so much more interesting than a character I love from start to finish #anyway kind of sobbing over Peter the GM and his inability to kill </3 #bear town #book posting #🦝

"In their almost four decades together Sonja taught hundreds of pupils with learning difficulties to read and write, and she got them to read Shakespeare’s collected works. In the same period she never managed to make Ove read a single Shakespeare play. But as soon as they moved into their row house he spent every evening for weeks on end in the toolshed. And when he was done, the most beautiful bookcases she had ever seen were in their living room.

“You have to keep them somewhere,” he muttered, and poked a little cut on his thumb with the tip of a screwdriver."

lines from A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman.

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I'm halfway through Bear Town by Fredrik Backman and oof I'm having a *time* with this book. The people in it (yes I said people and not characters) are so shockingly well realised and written that it not only blows my mind but is absolutely breaking my heart lol.

One thing I will say if you're planning on reading it is don't read the description and assume the author will pull his punches like I did. I assumed the assault would be more ambiguously portrayed but its not it *is* violent and it happens on the page and it is very unpleasant to read BUT the whole story is handled and crafted so carefully that it doesn't feel exploitative or anything like that, it's just a thing that happens that everyone has to deal with the consequences of.