The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
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How do trees live? Do they feel pain, or have awareness of their surroundings? Research is now...
Grey's Anatomy - Season 1
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The cleverly written series follows five first-year interns and their supervisors at Seattle Grace...
It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War
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War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit...
The Life She Wants
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From behind the curtains, Sarah spotted the man coming out of the house, followed by the woman. It...
Nadya R (9 KP) rated A Man Called Ove in Books
Jul 2, 2018
Is there somebody that doesn't know Ove? With his colorful expressions, he made me giggle in the middle of my lectures in university (and made my Architecture lecturer wonder what the funny thing is). From the first page I knew that I would love this curmudgeon Ove.
Ove is one of these people, that don't like anything. Nobody do nothing in the right way. Always complanes from the new generation, who cant even change the flat tyre on their own car. The story goes trough two different times: now- after Sonja death and before - what the life of young Ove looks like. The flashback shows us a kind, hard-working young men, truly honest man. The bureaucracy and the series of misfortune events, that follows him through his own life, leaded to all his negativism rooted deep in his heart. And after he finally used to live with all world letting him down, his only cherish in this grumpy world, the only person who understand him and love him, betrayed him as well. After Sonja death he can't find a reason to stay alive. All he wants is to die and be together with his wife again. His sunlight has gone and after her its only darkness. Gray-colored everyday routine. Whitout her. So he decided that he has to die and be with her again.
Going throug a series of funny series, he became too busy to die today or tomorrow. Then Parvaneh showed up with her crazy family and frustrated all his suicidal plans. She bring the hope back to him. He realized that the life without Sonja is worse, but since he has 3 children, who he didn't even know 2 weeks ago, but they do love him like he is their biological granddad, the life is actually not that bad.
Although Ove is an old curmudgeon, I can assure you that he has the biggest heart you have ever saw.
The wisdom from the Masters in between her lives was incredible. Could it be that it really exists? I had a near death experience several years ago and was suspended between this life and the next in the most glorious of places; among the stars in an iolite-colored sky, being held by a golden string in the presence of the Goddess. It was the most beautiful and peaceful place I have ever known. I don't fear death anymore.
I have always said that the difficulties I'm going through in this life are just something I need to experience and learn this time around. I've always said it in an offhand way, semi-believing it, but could it be true? I would like to think that it is and that if I learn the truth about my previous lives that the problems in my current life could be resolved or at least understood and I could experience a cessation of my emotional and psychological issues.
This book inspired me to look deeper inside myself and at humankind. I don't doubt it does the same for whoever reads it. You will be moved and will grow from reading it
Chopin and His World
Jonathan D. Bellman and Halina Goldberg
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A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin...
The House of Broken Angels
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Prizewinning and bestselling writer Luis Urrea has written his Mexican coming-to-America story, his...
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 11
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Langston fights for his life ("Shockwaves") as Catherine meets a man from her past ("Pool Shark"),...