Reviews tagging 'Outing'

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

12 reviews

riordanfan's review

dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Fatphobia, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, and Outing

nasolireads's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book just broke me completely. This story is so heartbreaking. A story about grief and how people deal with it and also about found family and love. Even though Ove irritated me at the beginning, I began to love him little by little as the story went on. The way he talked about his wife and the life they had together I felt very connected to Ove more and more. The way Ove slowly accepted Parvaneh and her silly family and how she helped him live a little longer it was just so beautiful. I loved the way it was written, interchanging from past to present. It seemed repetitive at times but it worked for me. This book had me sobbing from beginning to end. I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Miscarriage, Racism, Grief, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Outing

fogg_asphyx's review

emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Outing

idk_indigo's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Ove grew on me a lot, as he did for his neighbors & loved ones. This book was so beautifully written, from the gradual reveal of the life he built with Sonya to the way he unintentionally builds a new family with his neighbors after he loses her; how he knew this is what Sonya would've wanted. He loses the one person who has ever understood him, & then he realizes that he doesn't need to be understood to be loved. Hold on I'm tearing up again...

& the way his HEART WAS TOO BIG

shut up I am not crying... 

Ove's the type of girl to insist he's not helpful, he just thinks you're doing it wrong, but it's okay he will do it for you (but only because he knows that otherwise you won't be able to do it properly, it's not for helping purposes, it's really not). 

One of my favorite books of the year methinks! I 🫶 Ove, slay you grumpy but generous king 👑

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Cancer, Death, Miscarriage, Car accident, Death of parent, and Outing

Suicide attempt is detailed, but not in a triggering way

pkc's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book is so beautiful. I love it when an author takes a seemingly unloveable character and fills them with so much heart, pathos and goodness that you can’t help but root for them. Backman even goes as far as to book-end the story with two halves of the same scene so that where the unsuspecting reader views the eponymous Ove as a grumpy, horrid man in the beginning, we have accepted his flaws (for the most part!) by the end. The cast of supporting characters is so beautifully drawn and I’d be so shocked if you didn’t finish this book in floods of tears. I sure as heck did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Dementia, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Outing

espookita's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

My friends lent me this book and then had to bully me over the course of multiple weeks to actually pick it up and start reading. It’s not that I was expecting it to be bad, more so unrelatable and perhaps boring. I judged this book incredibly wrong. When I started reading this, (it took me about a month to read the whole thing) I read about 4 chapters in a sitting and had to put it down because this book brought me genuinely to tears every four chapters or so. It’s very simple, but its beauty is in its simplicity. Ove’s daily inspections, the drab Swedish winters, the heavy piles of snow, the sausage and potatoes for dinner every single day create this very easy picture of life to imagine that, while clearly Swedish, can also be found anywhere. Ove’s grumpy curmudgeonliness is a characteristic of old men worldwide. But there is such simple beauty. His loyalty to his Saab, his long-standing marriage that brought color to his life, his friendship with a neighbourhood cat. There is a profound amount of emotion within this book because it is not so much about adventures or stories, but about the way we humans live our lives and feel pain, fall in love, experience loss, and find our way through that grief to something new again. That is something valuable for everyone. There is not a single person I think who would not be able to gain something from this book. 100% recommendation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cancer, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Dementia, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Outing

arshiya_amreen90786's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Car accident, and Outing

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child death, Infertility, Dementia, and Fire/Fire injury

waybeyondblue's review

emotional funny lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Racism, Terminal illness, Dementia, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Outing

kotashomelibrary's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death

Minor: Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Outing

emmoon's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Miscarriage, and Outing