Tag: small towns

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 18, 2023

  

  Spotlight: Galore || Weekly Roundup: The Manticore, World of Wonders, Funny You Should Ask, The Tempest, Earth’s the Right Place for Love, Gathering Blue, Lumberjanes

  stufffromthestuff

  March 18, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Atlantic Fishing Trade, Complicated Families, Galore, Multi-generational epics, Newfoundland, small towns

• 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…

  stufffromthestuff

  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

• From the Backlist: Mink River

  

  A review of 2010’s Mink River, by Brian Doyle

  stufffromthestuff

  November 15, 2022

  From the Backlist

  backlist, cascadia, community, magical realism, mink river, pacific northwest, small towns, the commons