Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

I laughed, I cried, I will re-read.

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

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“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.” This is my favorite of Backman’s books (that I’ve read) by quite a large margin. I would […]

Catching Up – Eight for CBR12 Book Bingo

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

The Final Girls by Riley Sager

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang

The Girl With the Louding Voice by Abi Dare

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

What You Wish For by Katherine Center

The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan

P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern

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Lock Every Door – Violet The Bingo space reasoning for this book is obvious given the color of the cover. Lock Every Door completely kept my interest throughout; however, I would put it at the bottom of the list for Riley Sager’s books. That doesn’t mean it isn’t worth checking out. I would recommend it to anyone interested in a creepy read in the same vein as Get Out. In fact, I’m interested to know which one came first. The plots are so similar that […]

A locked room mystery that is also a dark comedy and a reflection on mental health

Anxious poeple by Fredrik Backman

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Fredrik Backman is a Swedish novelist who broke out a few years ago with the novel A Man Called Ove.  He is also a genius, which is proved by his latest offering Anxious People.  I have read everything he has written which has been published in English.  His latest might be his best (or at least a close second behind Ove). The premise is pretty simple.  A bank robber, who makes the mistake of trying to rob a cashless bank, escapes by running into an […]

It’s A Wonderful Life, Ove

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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“He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.” A Man Called Ove is the story of a curmudgeon who misses his wife, Sonja, terribly… so terribly that he plans to die. He attempts three times and all attempts fail. Ove begrudgingly decides that he still has people to live for and things to do. It’s not quite It’s a Wonderful Life, but there are parallels to this beautiful, heart-warming tale. Among the many touching aspects of this story, […]

Delightful stubbornness

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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A Man Called Ove is about a delightfully stubborn widower in Sweden. He has a strict logic that he applies to the world. He yearns for consistency and routine. Anyone who deviates from the order is likely inefficient and an idiot in his mind. He is suspicious of most things and prefers to abstain from all social things. I enjoyed his rising frustration at the computer store when he attempts to buy a computer. Despite his crankiness, Ove fell in love with a woman named […]

Wonderful

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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If you, like me, have ever adored and also been bewildered by someone who can best be described as ‘crotchety’ or ‘cantankerous’, I highly recommend that you read this book. A Man Called Ove is a lovely peek in to the life of a salty old man and the life events that formed his world view. Ove is a widower and is trying to commit suicide in various well-planned ways. He likes no one, has no family or friends, and is ready to join his […]



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