All the familiar lovable characters are back, although this time around the writing started tugging the heart-strings from the very beginning and by the end, a long time later, I was exhausted. But, yes, a big drama with some serious casualties and a lot of hockey! As with all Backman’s books, the main story is humanity that can be found in the most peculiar places - deep in the dark wilderness of the forest, and among the nicest of smalltown people as well as the hockey hooligans.
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Voracious reader, occasional writer, retired journalist. Canadian in Croatia, permanently. I like smart stories to challenge my imagination, or tug on my emotions. That goes for character and plot driven stories, I don’t care as long as it grips me and keeps me going through the end. Genre agnostic. I do despise lazy writing, when too little is explained and too much left to reader’s’ imagination, unfinished stories and illogical plot developments or character’s’ behaviour.
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Zoran B. commented on Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled …
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Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
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Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
Zoran B. reviewed Winners by Fredrik Backman
Heart-tugging last instalment of the Beartown saga
4 stars
Zoran B. rated Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: 4 stars
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video …
Zoran B. rated Out: A Novel: 3 stars
Out: A Novel by Natsuo Kirino
In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy …
Zoran B. rated The Circus Train: 4 stars
The Circus Train by Amita Parikh
- Lena Papadopoulos has never quite found her place within the circus, even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist, …
Zoran B. rated Poster Girl: 4 stars
Zoran B. rated Great Gatsby: 3 stars
Zoran B. rated Mockingbird: 4 stars
Zoran B. rated Wrong Place, Wrong Time: 4 stars
Zoran B. rated Macbeth (Hogarth Shakespeare): 3 stars
Macbeth (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Jo Nesbø
Macbeth is a thriller novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, a re-telling of the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare for …
