This week's Book Through Thursday asks:Following.Book Review: Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like.Weekly Geeks: Other Forms of Storytelling.Booking Through Thursday: What Is Reading, Fundame.But the writing is lovely and the characters wonderful. Mostly because a few of the key points of the stories were incomplete, or perhaps I was too dense to grasp what exactly happened-or why-in a couple of instances. Astrid and Veronika are women of much depth, and their stories are heartwrenching but mostly satisfying. I love to come across an insight into something I've often pondered: the fragments of childhood memories, what we choose to remember and how much we've lost in the journey. 'I have years of life that have left no traces, and minutes that are so ingrained in my mind that I relive them every day.'' … Some of my clearest memories are of the briefest moments,' Veronika continued. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of coffee in. Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. times for their chosen novels like this Astrid And Veronika, but end up in infectious downloads. 'I think I have never grasped the essence of time. The process of embellishing and filling the holes is an unconscious one, I think. As children we inhabit a world built of incoherent snippets. Other people make decisions for them, and only fragments of the rationale are ever conveyed.

'Children have to build their world from such incomplete information. Olsson has wonderful insights into the concepts of time, memory and perception, and I found myself mulling over many of her statements. Their stories run a parallel course: both women are without mothers and without daughters, but ultimately find this relationship in each other. Astrid, nearing 80, has lived a solitary, sad life Veronika, in her early 30s, has come to this tiny town to recover from a terrible loss. Neighbors Astrid and Veronika are both lonely, heartbroken women.

Olsson (her website is here) is a lyrical writer she takes time about this craft of writing, creating phrases that fit together like poetry. This book by Linda Olsson has been on my reading list for so long that I had no memory of what it might be about when I at last got to it.

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