Tag: Fredrik Backman
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4 More Favorite Books Told From Multiple Points of View (POV)
Books that tell the story from multiple points of view can sometimes give so much more than if we see it from the eyes of a single person – when done well! When it’s not, then it’s a confusing mess. We have shared in the past 4 Favorite Multiple Point of View AudioBooks, and now,…
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4 More (A)udiobook Recommendations for (A)udiobook (A)ppreciation Month
#SummerAtoZ kicks off in June which is also Audiobook Appreciation Month. If you’ve been reading the blog long enough, you know that we are big time listeners. Last year we shared 4 Books for (A)udiobook Appreciation Month and …. let’s make it a thing! Here’s 4 more audiobooks that we insist you try – because…
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Favorite Audiobooks [The 2020 Edition]
This year, I listened to 58 audiobooks which is more than my total number of books read and listened to the previous year. There were some real standouts and I managed to narrow it down to 6 favorites that I’d like to share with you – a science fiction (alternate history) where the book and…
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Favorite Books from the Past 3 Autumns
For both of us, we don’t read as much in the summer, but once the cooler temps and early nights of the Fall season roll around, we start reaching for more and more books. This also means that at least some of the books read in Fall end up making our best books of the…
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6 Book (D)uets For Your Reading Pleasure
Here are some of our favorite recently read books and their readalikes.
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6 Fall Reading Favorites [Books To Add To Fall Reading List]
What was your favorite book read last Fall? Since we both use Goodreads to track the books we’ve read, we can use it to look back at our faves. We want to shout out to these awesome books we read in Autumn seasons past – and encourage you to read them, if you haven’t already.
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Big Book Summer Reading [The 2017 Edition]
Every summer, we participate in the Big Book (S)ummer Reading Challenge hosted by Book By Book where the goal is to read at least 1 400+ page book. Here’s how we did this summer.
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Reading From the Best Sellers List + Movie Review {A Man Called Ove}
I read A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman last year and then convinced my husband to read it this year. Contemporary is not usually my jam so I’m not sure what prompted me to pick this one up. I’m glad I did though…
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3 Contemporary Books With Quirky Characters
I don’t typically read contemporary books. I’m just not usually drawn to them. There is one thing that will make me pick up a contemporary though – a character with a quirky personality. Here are three characters that made me love contemporary…
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