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Mar 24, 2023posie12 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Sometimes an event happens that seems to be a catalyst in people's lives; thereafter the time life changed forever. ,
Apr 21, 2022ba_library rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I know they made this book into a movie a few years with a stellar Norwegian cast, so I thought I would read the book while waiting for the film to become available on DVD. I have not read any other books by this author and you can see…
Mar 30, 2022Luckybe rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
A most wordy story primarily about a boy and his father that takes place both in 1946 or so and in the boy’s adulthood, 1960s. It is told from memory and seemingly firsthand both of which are excessive in detail. The fathers disappearance…
May 18, 2021NANCY ELIZABETH WHITLATCH rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I hate giving this a two star rating. It appears to deserve so much more for the depth of the story and the metaphors that are considered so well done by the book critics. The problem I had is being left with a sense that so much was left…
Jan 19, 2021
Have I read this? Another Norwegian.
Dec 10, 2020wyenotgo rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Once again, it’s been proven to me that multiple glowing recommendations, even from fellow readers I follow and trust, do not guarantee an enjoyable — or enlightening or challenging — reading experience. Time and again, I found myself…
Nov 17, 2014Persnickety77 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
sometimes I need to read these slow, ponderous, sad books where nothing and everything happens. This is a very good one of those kinds of books. It is at once devastatingly and predictably sad. It is the kind of sad that makes…
Oct 26, 2014WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This Norwegian novel is narrated by a man who is on the cusp of old age and facing big life questions. At 67, Petterson's protagonist, Trond, moves to a rustic cabin in an isolated part of Norway to live the rest of his life with quiet…
Feb 14, 2014funky_d rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Protagonist Trond gives us the alternating perspective of what happened between his father and him that summer of 1948. We hear from 15-year-old Trond and 67-year-old Trond, which gives us an opportunity to see how the character has…
Jul 26, 2013joalo rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
What a beautifully written tale of mystery and memory and coming into age. Actually set in Norway it is so evocative and almost poetic- highly recommended.
Jun 17, 2013WVMLBookClubTitles rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Three years after his wife’s accidental death, a sixty-seven-year-old man settles into an isolated cabin near Norway’s southeastern border with Sweden and reflects back to the summer when he was fifteen and he and his friend went out to…
Nov 06, 2012Rock_Shadow rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
You don't exactly know where Peterson's story is heading, but he takes you there through a quiet yet powerful narrative. Beautiful story
Aug 05, 2012SuzeParker rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
At times this book kept me turning pages, and at times I was sure I'd give up and move on to something else. By the time I finished the book - which I likely wouldn't have done if it weren't a short offering - I wasn't sure whether I'd…
Aug 02, 2012uncommonreader rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A coming of age story set in Denmark in the 1940s. Events in the hero's youth are defining. Excellent.
Apr 07, 2012bstudent rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
drama - written well, interesting experiences, flows nicely but ended uncertainly where perhaps there should have been more but what, again uncertian if there should have been? Odd, satisfied yet not.
thart
Nov 16, 2011thart rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Book club read (7/2010) at Crystal Lake Public Library. Normally I at least have something positive to say about a book, but definitely NOT with this one. I would honestly rather give myself a thousand paper cuts and pour a bucket of…
thart
Nov 16, 2011thart rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Book club read (7/2010) at Crystal Lake Public Library. Normally I at least have something positive to say about a book, but definitely NOT with this one. I would honestly rather give myself a thousand paper cuts and pour a bucket of…
thart
Nov 16, 2011thart rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Book club read (7/2010) at Crystal Lake Public Library. Normally I at least have something positive to say about a book, but definitely NOT with this one. I would honestly rather give myself a thousand paper cuts and pour a bucket of…
Cdnbookworm
May 18, 2011Cdnbookworm rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This gem of a book was recommended by another librarian that I am on a committee with, and he was right about it being a good one. I had actually bought it before he recommended it, being drawn to it by both good reviews and an interest in…
Sep 08, 2010Harriet_the_Spy rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Almost unbearably sad. You keep reading because the writing is so compelling. The author considers the problems of masculinity. Weapons in this case aren't guns as much as nature: raging rivers, trees that need to be felled, horses. A…
Mar 05, 2008Mehitabel rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Beautifully written examination of the devastating effect of a traumatic event on the lives of the children involved - how in a moment everything changes. An old man alone remembers events from the past and reflects on his life.