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A review by jessicagpedro
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
5.0
“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
“To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home.”
If I could highlight this whole book, I would. There's not a single sentence of it that did not make me sob or laugh. Without a doubt, one of my favourite books of 2022.
I knew this book would make me cry, but I didn't know that it would make me C-R-Y. Laughs and tears were caused by this book, the tragedy and comedy held hands in the most beautiful way.
I want to be friends with Ove, I adore this cranky old man and he broke my heart in the most wholesome way. I want to keep him in an aquarium, him and his love language being acts of service and his love for Sonja and his cat and his grumpiness <3
“To love someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love in everything new, you wonder every morning that this is one's own, as if they are afraid that someone will suddenly come tumbling through the door and say that there has been a serious mistake and that it simply was not meant to would live so fine. But as the years go by, the facade worn, the wood cracks here and there, and you start to love this house not so much for all the ways it is perfect in that for all the ways it is not. You become familiar with all its nooks and crannies. How to avoid that the key gets stuck in the lock if it is cold outside. Which floorboards have some give when you step on them, and exactly how to open the doors for them not to creak. That's it, all the little secrets that make it your home.”
If I could highlight this whole book, I would. There's not a single sentence of it that did not make me sob or laugh. Without a doubt, one of my favourite books of 2022.
I knew this book would make me cry, but I didn't know that it would make me C-R-Y. Laughs and tears were caused by this book, the tragedy and comedy held hands in the most beautiful way.
I want to be friends with Ove, I adore this cranky old man and he broke my heart in the most wholesome way. I want to keep him in an aquarium, him and his love language being acts of service and his love for Sonja and his cat and his grumpiness <3