“Maya knows all too well that this silence can be like water. A childhood that was one long, desperate attempt not to be liquid, not to seek out the cracks in your parents.” She will remember that that’s how it felt to grow up as the little sister of a dead big brother. “In the summer the rain seeps into the cracks in the bricks, then when the temperature slips below zero the moisture freezes to ice, and the bricks break. “Bitterness can be corrosive it can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.” No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.” “Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. The youth program isn’t some factory, regardless of what some of our sponsors seem to think.” Those guys are flesh and blood, not business plans and investment targets. “We’re not supposed to develop ‘products.’ We don’t manufacture anything at all. “People are standing in silent lines with their eyes half-open and their minds half-closed.” TW: a rape storyline and some crude locker room language and humorĪ few favorite lines from Beartown include: Filled with fascinating characters and infused with complex and important themes of family, parenting, competition, loyalty, courage, community, belonging, friendship, small town struggles and values, hope, and a girl’s “no.” This multilayed, thoughtful, and challenging read would make a highly discussable book club selection. Hockey fans will find this story particularly enjoyable. My Thoughts on BeartownĪs the author develops characters and establishes the setting in his unique style, tension builds like the distant rumbling of an approaching severe thunderstorm The action is a bit slow in he beginning but once it picks up, the tension is sustained as the story plays out. *This post contains Amazon affiliate links. I’m linking up today with Davida The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog for #throwbackthursday. I read Beartown before I started blogging, so I don’t have a full blog review for linking ….I’ll include a brief review of it below and then link to my Us Against You blog review. They are a series and Us Against You cannot be read as a stand-alone. This week’s Throw Back Thursday is a bit different because I’m throwing back to TWO books: Beartown and Us Against You. On Thursdays, I’ll be re-sharing a few of these great reads, and today I’m sharing my reviews of Beartown and Us Against You by Fredrik Backman, atmospheric stories of sports, small towns, and community… This year as part of Blog Audit Challenge 2020 I’m going back to update older review posts. Genre/Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Sports, Hockey Beartown and Us Against You by Fredrik Backman #throwbackthursday
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