The Deal of a Lifetime

This is only my 2nd Fredrik Backman book. Going into this one you are going to be confused at first but by the end everything is clear. This is a very short read and some of the pages just have images on them. I feel like this one needed to be longer for me to get the emotional gut punch that I assume was intended. I just didn't connect to the story or the characters enough to get emotional over the outcome. That said though I did still like it I just needed more from it. 

Fredrick Backman back at it again with a book that ruined my life.

This has confirmed for me that I need to pick up every single one of his books and devour them because I am convinced I will love and enjoy anything this man writes.

Thankfully this was just a short story. I just wasn't overly impressed. I like this author, but this story didn't seem to capture my attention.

A bit of a heart-wrenching tale of a father, writing to his son. A short tale, my second read from the same author and I must admit - I have a new favourite author now.

This was so beautiful and touching

Sweet like everything I have read by him .

this one hit all the feels. what to do me like that backman! i'm like sobbing over here. What a great little christmas story. I read this via ebook and loved the illustrations throughout :) definitely recommend adding to your holiday TBR

What an absolute heart tugger. This may be short but it packs a punch in the emotional department. Backman will forever be an auto-buy. He writes with such feeling and compassion...my heart is left swirling when the last word drops...

Loved this book about the lengths you would go to save someone you didn't know.

A life for a life is not the same as a death for a death. The woman in the gray sweater told him that.

If you're anything like me and you don't really get the appeal of holiday books, then that's great, because other than one mention in the novella (more of a short story, really) of it being Christmas Eve morning, this could easily have taken place at any time of year.

The guy who's telling the story, he's a real asshole. He sneers at happy people, was a lousy absentee father who still can't relate to his now-grown son, and thinks he's way better than everyone else. (Summarizing, since I've already returned the book to the library: “There are only people above you, that you want something from, and people below you, whom you trample on to get what you want. I worked to make sure that there was no one else above me.”) Obsessed with his legacy, and having to come to terms with what it would mean to lose everything, and why it just might be worth losing everything.

I enjoyed it. I didn't love it as much as I did Ove, nor did it rip me to pieces like Beartown and And Every Morning did. But not everything can or should reduce one to a puddle.

So this story takes place at Christmas time but it is not a Christmas story.

Not at all what I was expecting but a wonderful book. I will likely go back and re-read from time to time.