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A review by iris_ymra
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman
5.0
'The best stories are never completely realistic and never entirely made up.'
'The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people left behind want to stop living.'
'People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will 'lessen as time passes', but it isn't true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn't be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyse us.'
'You never say goodbye in the Land-of-Almost-Awake. You just say see you later.'
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This book is definitely the epitome of a thousand eternities of never ending fairy-tale. Yet it still ended, because only then we'll get to the happily ever after. Fredrik Backman is indeed a great storyteller whom able to make ones read the story instead of being told off. Indeed a page-turning book for me. Filled with running emotions that for me are quite indescribable, but rather needed to be experienced by one oneself alone.
Entertainingly wise and humorous storyline, was such an exciting reading for me. With characters that (I think) were properly made to fit into every plot and together perfectly move the whole story swiftly until the very end.
Even though the fairy-tale of Land-of-Almost-Awake took almost big part in the plot since we will often jump into the storyline that's happening in that realm, and it kind of seems like a drag in the story but that you see, then, just how everything will make sense entirely. Because I do think it's necessary to be put along in the storyline in significance to Elsa's being the main character of this book. And she, being the kid character, and it's just the kids thing with fairy-tale and imagination. That's really how we can see kids deal with real time stresses and issues they face in their kids life, or perhaps how adults deal with kids to help them with the real world.
Reading this will definitely engulf one with the family bonding relationships, the neighborhood, and perhaps even the whole world -- humanely feelings it brings.
'The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people left behind want to stop living.'
'People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and aching pain of the heart will 'lessen as time passes', but it isn't true. Sorrow and loss are constant, but if we all had to go through our whole lives carrying them the whole time, we wouldn't be able to stand it. The sadness would paralyse us.'
'You never say goodbye in the Land-of-Almost-Awake. You just say see you later.'
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This book is definitely the epitome of a thousand eternities of never ending fairy-tale. Yet it still ended, because only then we'll get to the happily ever after. Fredrik Backman is indeed a great storyteller whom able to make ones read the story instead of being told off. Indeed a page-turning book for me. Filled with running emotions that for me are quite indescribable, but rather needed to be experienced by one oneself alone.
Entertainingly wise and humorous storyline, was such an exciting reading for me. With characters that (I think) were properly made to fit into every plot and together perfectly move the whole story swiftly until the very end.
Even though the fairy-tale of Land-of-Almost-Awake took almost big part in the plot since we will often jump into the storyline that's happening in that realm, and it kind of seems like a drag in the story but that you see, then, just how everything will make sense entirely. Because I do think it's necessary to be put along in the storyline in significance to Elsa's being the main character of this book. And she, being the kid character, and it's just the kids thing with fairy-tale and imagination. That's really how we can see kids deal with real time stresses and issues they face in their kids life, or perhaps how adults deal with kids to help them with the real world.
Reading this will definitely engulf one with the family bonding relationships, the neighborhood, and perhaps even the whole world -- humanely feelings it brings.