Jacob Shymanski

Red, let's hear your next book that you read over the holidays that you want to shout out.

It's a very positive book that lends itself well to a holiday season read.

You know what it reminded me of?

Forrest Gump.

Not in plot, but in tone.

It's life-affirming and kind of heartwarming.

And the plot is relatively simple, but it's beautifully executed.

It's also, if I remember it well, it was really funny too.

Ove is a cartoonishly cynical man that is not too far off from characters that we know in real life read.

I think we all know these people that are perpetually cynical.

Sometimes you just wonder, why are you the way you are?

And it's giving these types of personalities the time of day to ask, could you change?

Why are you the way you are?

Let me understand you.

What could change you?

Personally, these people drive me crazy.

But they do really well.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's A Man Called Ove by Frederick Bachman, who's also written My Friends, which was very popular this year.

But A Man Called Ove was one of his previous books.