Trigger Warning: sexual assault I do not know much about hockey, I live in Texas and while Dallas has an NHL team the whole sport tends to fly under my radar, but you don’t need to know anything about hockey to be enraptured by Beartown. Saying I “enjoyed” Beartown doesn’t seem right, it isn’t a particularly enjoyable story, but like A Man Called Ove Backman delivers a very sad but beautiful story this time about life in a small Swedish town whose entire focus is on their youth hockey team. I’ve […]
“Words are not small things.”
“Sooner or later any sports team has to decide what it really wants to achieve, and Beartown is no longer content merely to play. They’ll replace Sune with the coach of the junior team, for one simple reason: when Sune talks to his players before matches, he gives long speeches about them playing with their hearts. When the junior team coach stands in the locker room, he says just one word: ‘Win.’ And the juniors win. They’ve done nothing else for ten years. It’s just […]
A book that I purchased solely based on judging it’s cover.
I’m so stereotypically Canadian, that I picked this up because of the hockey game on the cover. True story. #sorrynotsorry Beartown is a small rural village (in what I’m assuming is Sweden, although I don’t think it ever specified) that is slowly dying. Their only hope for economic revival is their junior hockey team – a championship win will secure them as the site for a new elite hockey academy which will bring people and businesses back to the area. But before that final game, […]