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A review by iris_ymra
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
5.0
'Sometimes it's easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while go on not knowing.'
'No one like memories of good time when times are bad.'
'All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe.'
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Britt-Marie after years being with Kent, her husband, had found herself a job at a place called Borg, after she left her home when Kent had a heart attack and an affair she ought had known long before. And it's there, then, she began again, restarting a life where she became the town football team's coach, so that the team could enter a football cup.
Long after, Britt-Marie then perhaps found the courage to jump and found herself too. Just as how the liveliness of the town being found and maybe had been restored again, as the for sale sign on people's threshold, then became more and more less than it was visible before when one was passing the town.
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It's one thing to want to listen to stories and it's another thing to want to read them. This is a story you want to read, and perhaps tell, and make other people want to read and then tell others. Reading this book was not as much of a rollercoaster ride of emotion or too many of adventures -- not that many adventures or emotion flip would be of no good -- but it's just enough, and enough is good too, at least, when it comes to know that Britt-Marie was there and her story was worth knowing.
This book indeed is uplifting and encouragements to start over, no matter how it was long, long ago when you had begun. It defied the commons -- at age and time and place and who -- with one to have dreams.
The storyline was definitely beautifully well written, indeed the forte of Fredrik Backman I must say. A heartwarming tale altogether. And in the end, I love it that Britt-Marie made her own choices and more than anything I love the choice that she made.
'No one like memories of good time when times are bad.'
'All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe.'
_______
Britt-Marie after years being with Kent, her husband, had found herself a job at a place called Borg, after she left her home when Kent had a heart attack and an affair she ought had known long before. And it's there, then, she began again, restarting a life where she became the town football team's coach, so that the team could enter a football cup.
Long after, Britt-Marie then perhaps found the courage to jump and found herself too. Just as how the liveliness of the town being found and maybe had been restored again, as the for sale sign on people's threshold, then became more and more less than it was visible before when one was passing the town.
_______
It's one thing to want to listen to stories and it's another thing to want to read them. This is a story you want to read, and perhaps tell, and make other people want to read and then tell others. Reading this book was not as much of a rollercoaster ride of emotion or too many of adventures -- not that many adventures or emotion flip would be of no good -- but it's just enough, and enough is good too, at least, when it comes to know that Britt-Marie was there and her story was worth knowing.
This book indeed is uplifting and encouragements to start over, no matter how it was long, long ago when you had begun. It defied the commons -- at age and time and place and who -- with one to have dreams.
The storyline was definitely beautifully well written, indeed the forte of Fredrik Backman I must say. A heartwarming tale altogether. And in the end, I love it that Britt-Marie made her own choices and more than anything I love the choice that she made.