I loved this book. It's the first one I've read by Mr. Backman, but not the last. That's for sure. It's like John Irving, Wally Lamb, David Mitchel, Jennifer Egan, Michael Chabon, Hernan Diaz--if I see them on a shelf, I buy them. Which reminds me of "The Brief...

As usual, looking for a good comp for The Song of Songs. At first I was excited, because it was a road trip and the protagonist was a 60+ year-old guy, and there was a whiff of magical realism with a sentient cat and a few other things, and it's funny. But. But it's...

I read this at least a month ago. It was part of my unending search for comp titles. I read it because of the speculative fiction aspect and magical realism, and it was a love story, as most books are, but I can't use it. At least I could read it, and I liked the...