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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
Now on to Sylvie and Bruno, as that seems to be the apparent winner of the book club vote this month.
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I finished the first volume of
Sylvie and Bruno on Wednesday. Due to a mix-up yesterday, I ended up in a coffee shop for 5 hours and read almost all of Frederik Backman's new novel
Beartown. From the very first page, it was a beautifully written trainwreck that I could not look away from. All the descriptors sell this as a hockey book. That is not entirely true. It is a book about "hockey culture" and all the very good and very bad things that can mean.
Whether or not the novel makes my top ten will depend on what he does in the last 50 pages. But I highly recommend it to lifelong hockey fans either way. (Even though the book isn't really about hockey).