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Wonderful Feels Like This
Wonderful Feels Like This | Sara Lovestam
4 posts | 5 read | 3 to read
The Elegance of the Hedgehog meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower in this novel celebrating being a little bit odd, finding your people, and the power of music to connect usFor Steffi, going to school everyday is an exercise in survival. She's never fit in with any of the groups at school, and she's viciously teased by the other girls in her class. The only way she escapes is through her music especially jazz music.When Steffi hears her favorite jazz song playing through an open window of a retirement home on her walk home from school, she decides to go in and introduce herself.The old man playing her favorite song is Alvar. When Alvar was a teenager in World War II Sweden, he dreamed of being in a real jazz band. Then and now, Alvar's escape is music especially jazz music. Through their unconventional but powerful friendship, Steffi comes to realize that she won't always be stuck and lonely in her town. She can go to music school in Stockholm. She can be a real musician. She can be a jitterbug, just like Alvar.But how can Steffi convince her parents to let her go to Stockholm to audition? And how it that Steffi's school, the retirement home, the music, and even Steffi's worst bully are somehow all connected to Alvar? Can it be that the people least like us are the ones we need to help us tell our own stories?"
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag
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When you really want to read the book but are already reading two quite excellent ones (and are really bad at reading more than one book at a time)

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thewanderingbookmark
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"The most spiteful people are ones who are actually trying to defend themeselves from their own reflection."

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thewanderingbookmark
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Visiting my father in law in Alton and then flying back to Sydney tomorrow. This was a random pick by wife when we were at the Shakespeare and Company in Paris. The story surrounds a little girl who finds solace in the madness of jazz and she meets and old man who tells her the story of his life as Jazz musician in Stockholm during world war 2.