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• Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 4, 2023

  

  Spotlight Beartown (Beartown 1) Fredrik Backman (2016, trans. 2017) Beartown is a remote village in Sweden with a depressed economy and even more depressed spirit among its strong and hard, tight-lipped and stoic residents. The community can be forgiven, then, if it cares a little too much about its youth hockey team — which finally…

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  March 4, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Athletics and Sports, Beartown, Belonging, Hockey, Hollow, Holly Jolly Diwali, Loyalty, small towns, Something Wilder, Sweden, The Penderwicks, The Pursuit of Love, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Tuck Everlasting