The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

I really loved [b:The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend 25573977 The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Katarina Bivald https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1452107441l/25573977.SX50.jpg 25758335]. If you love books and you're a romantic, this is the book for you. I'll admit that it took me a bit to get into it, but I never considered putting it down. It was always intriguing. It just wasn't a fast read for me. (This could be me more than the author.)It's supposed to be Sara's story about how she comes from Sweden to Broken Wheel, Iowa to visit a pen pal, another book lover, who sadly dies before Sara arrives. But the town steps in to play host and it becomes the story of how Sara affects every other living person in Broken Wheel as much as what happens to her. Anyone can tell you the plot, but I'll mention a few things I found fascinating.There's a section of the novel that describes when Penguin first began mass-producing paperbacks in 1935 and the publisher started the Armed Forces Book Club.“Best of all was the fact that the smaller paperback format fit easily into their uniform pockets. “It was especially prized in prison camps,” Penguin's official history claimed. Which Sara had always thought was a particularly sad sentence.But, still, it said something about the power of books. Not that they would somehow lessen the pain of war when someone beloved had died or create world peace or anything like that. But Sara couldn't help thinking that in war, as in life, boredom was one of the greatest problems, a slow, relentless wearing down. Nothing dramatic, just a gradual erosion of a person's energy and lust for life.So what could be better than a book? And a book that you could fit in your jacket pocket at that.” Of course, this is the book all librarians should read. And if you really love books, you'll love some of the ways Sara thinks about them.”. . .Tom thought she preferred [books] because they were happier than life, but even within their pages, people were dumped and broke up and lost those they cared about. And in life, just as in books, people eventually moved on to new loves. There was no difference between books and life there. Both involved happy and unhappy love stories.Of course, with books, you could have greater confidence that it would all end well. You worked through the disappointments and the complications, always conscious, deep down, that Elizabeth would get her Mr. Darcy in the end. With life, you couldn't have the same faith. But sooner or later, she reminded herself, surely someone you could imagine was your Mr. Darcy would turn up.” If you get the chance to read this book, don' t pass it up.

“For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.”

I truly wanted to like this, after all what could be more delightful than a book about a book lover and her books? Nonetheless this was dull and dry. The characters are lacklusters, the plot was a very basic rom-com script and the town was nowhere near as charming as the author intended it to be.

Este livro grita ficção em todas as páginas. Esta é uma boa história, não me interpretem mal. Lê-se bem, mas conseguiu irritar-me um bocadinho em alguns aspetos.
A nossa personagem principal é a típica pãozinho-sem-sal que não conhece nada do mundo e tem muito pouca experiência de vida porque a única coisa que faz é ler e pronto, daí não passa. Sai do seu país natal, a Suécia, para viajar para o estado do Iowa para conhecer pessoalmente uma amiga com quem troca correspondência. Ambas têm uma coisa em comum: amam ler. Só que quando a nossa protagonista, Sara, chega a Broken Wheel tem uma surpresa desagradável.
Sara, enquanto personagem, deu-me cabo dos nervos. Deixa que toda a gente ponha e disponha da vida dela, deixa que uma outra personagem em especifico a trate um pouco mal e nada faz.
No entanto, sim porque não tenho só coisas negativas a dizer sobre ela, é uma personagem que simultaneamente nos consegue deixar de coração quentinho, por se notar que tudo o que ela precisa é de amor, algo que vamos percebendo ao longo da história que ela nunca teve ao longo da sua vida. E ela aqui vai encontrar esse amor, a vários níveis. É um livro leve, que sabe bem ler (ainda que houvesse alturas em que me aborrecia, porque a autora metia-se a falar de coisas que não interessam assim tanto para nos dar um pouco de suspense em relação ao que vai acontecer a seguir.)
3/5 * é a minha classificação.

Sometimes I go into reading a book with such big hopes and yet the book can miss when it comes to plot, miss when it comes to characters, and miss when it comes to believability.

That is true of Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend.

The plot is farfetched: a Swedish woman comes to America to finally meet her pen pal only to learn her friend has died. Instead of returning home, the woman decides to open up a bookstore in her friend's dying Midwestern town.

The characters are farfetched; romance between an incredibly shy foreigner and an incredibly shy American man seems impossibly unlikely.

I usually give up on a book that isn't working for me. I kept turning pages with this book and read all the way to the end. I don't recommend it, but I must admit that something in me loves the idea of a story in which a dying town is revitalized by a bookstore.