In Every Moment We Are Still Alive by Tom Malmquist

3.27 AVERAGE

kflo818's review

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2.0

I’m honestly not sure how I managed to finish this book. It’s not long or particularly difficult. That said, it’s written without quotes and with lots of jumping between times. Very stream of consciousness. That, paired with a somewhat meandering plot about an incredibly difficult subject made this a hard one to feel motivated about and essentially derailed my whole reading year (along with several other major life changes that took precedence). In the end, I’d have to say I probably would not recommend it.

camillaekeskar's review against another edition

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2.0

Boken inleds med intensitet, en intensitet som sen bara blir rörig. Som läsare kastas jag mellan olika minnen och fantasier utan vägledning och jag irrar bort mig i de långa dialogerna där det inte alltid blir tydligt vem som säger vad. Boken har en fin avslutning som har den ton jag önskar att resten av boken hade haft.

pwsantabook's review

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4.0

Whew. There are books which ring so true that you think, “The author must have lived through this all.” IN EVERY MOMENT WE ARE STILL ALIVE is one of those books. Dense with feeling. Poetic without effort or poetics. I felt things at the end.

flarnie's review against another edition

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3.0

Enormt gripande från sida 1 men den tappade mig något en tredjedel eller så in. Stilen den är skriven i passade bra till en början men blev till slut lite tröttsam. Dock en modigt skriven bok, den är väldigt utlämnande om ett helt ofattbart livsöde.

jennyhejde's review against another edition

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5.0

Hjälp vad den här boken torktumlade mig.

Mitten av boken skulle jag bara gett tre stjärnor men sen kom slutet och det var briljant. Så väldigt osentimentalt och ärligt.

vonai's review against another edition

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emotional relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Realisticna prica. Realne scene. Nedostaju osecanja glavnog junakq, njegove unutrasnje borbe. 

piaolofsson's review against another edition

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emotional sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

saracox's review against another edition

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3.0

This is not a book I would normally pick up to read. But when I started to read it I was engulfed by the raw feelings of the main character (which I later discovered was in fact the author as this is autobiographical).
There are parts throughout the book where it jumps in time, sometimes it is a relevant memory, but other times I found it hard to reason as to why this "tidbit" had been inserted.
I think I would have liked to have known more about the process the main character had to go through for his daughter, as a lot of the book it about how the system doesn't always work, but I was intrigued as to the details of how it all worked out in the end.

museoftheviolets's review against another edition

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4.0

Tom Malmquist skriver på ett sätt som jag önskar jag skrev på. Livet och döden. Kontraster som tvinas ihop och på något sätt lyckas framstå som en hyllning till det levande, till allt det vi har fastän sorgen tynger.

ari_af's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

3.5

I wish there had been a bit more of an exploration into certain topics and the time jumps can be a bit confusing. Lovely and raw.