#anxious people by fredrik backman

[pagesofkenna]

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#anxious people by fredrik backman #bank robbery tw #armed robbery tw #i love this guys writing style. everyone trying to get me to read him years ago was right and should have explained better lmao

[ck2k18]

A while ago, maybe a year ago, I got this book. I've only read it once and am rereading it today and have realized that this book is the reason I write and tell stories the way I do. As I read, I remember specific lines and paragraphs in my fics that are structured similarly to the book. Till today I didn't realize how tremendously this book influenced my writing. I dunno I just think that's cool.

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[treasonousoracle]

Trick or treat! :)

happy halloween!! :)

#an excerpt from one of my favorite books #anxious people by fredrik backman

[aseaofquotes]

Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

#Fredrik Backman #Anxious People #literature #books #feelings

[nerdynatreads]

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book review || Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

video review || God Bless My Sunglasses -- Author Taste Test: Fredrik Backman

My first thoughts were, what the heck is this writing style and why do I love it so much? It’s so quirky, alternating between POVs of morally gray, realistically strange people and an outside narrator who gets distracted by certain topics or brings back up random one-liners to reinforce a strange aspect of the story. The dialogue is so entertaining, even when it’s going in circles and you can feel the frustration of either the police or the bank robber. While it’s easy to empathize with all the characters, there are also occasional times where this story is in the second person and makes you a part of the discussion as well.

With the alternating between many characters, I was a little worried it would get confusing, but they all have such strong personalities, that it’s not really possible. Backman makes every one of them stand out and they all feel so incredibly human.

While the tone feels very light at times, matching the fun dialogue, there’s an underlying melancholy. Many of the characters are somehow connected to suicide, making that theme pretty prevalent, but in a way that doesn’t necessarily focus on death as the sad part.

I thoroughly enjoyed this, and while it was a five star prediction, I don’t think I quite loved it that much, but I was still crying by the end. This story really just revolves around people and how we can be idiots, but we can also be so wonderful. There was so much that went into making all of these characters real and unique, each of the struggling with something and working to do the best they can.

Every person in this is at a different point in their life and is trying to figure out where to go next. They help one another, sometimes in ways, they don’t even realize.

The writing in this story was so simple and yet so complex, crafting together a strange group of characters and allowing them to grow in the space of a day. I’m really impressed and definitely will pick up more of Backman’s work.

I had a million tabs highlighting lines that were moving or memorable, and while some of them feel like they were written to be quotable, others are just so inherently perfect at describing what it means to be human.

The twists were a bit predictable, but this wasn’t really a mystery book, it was a book about people (idiots), and we’re definitely not as shocking as we’d like to think we are.

4 / 5 stars

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[thebearsfrombeartown]

no one writes human beings like fredrik backman

#fredrik backman #beartown #anxious people #My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry #a man called ove #brit marie was here #like for fucks sake #how is this man so fucking insanely good #what the actual fuck

[melodysbookhaven]

“When you're a child you long to be an adult and decide everything for yourself, but when you're an adult you realize that's the worst part of it.”

Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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[ellickalways]

idk if any of y’all are readers but please just go pick up any book by fredrik backman it will cure something broken in you. please i’m begging you.

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[yearning4life]

i don't think i've ever felt more single than when fredrik backman said “he was a man of black and white. and she was colour. all the colour he had” like how i am supposed to get over that

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[genyasafinsmissingeye]

I can’t express to you how grateful I am that Amat and Maya never got together in Beartown. And how Maya didn’t get with anyone in the series.

Amat went through some serious growth, but we can’t forget that he witnessed Maya’s rape and allowed her to get cruicified by the residents of Beartown for it. Despite him knowing the truth- that Maya wasn’t lying- he didn’t say anything in favor of fitting in with the team. He did come out in defence of Maya later on, but the damage was already done. He chose to be silent. 

Maya forgave Amat and they became friends, but after what he did, having a romantic relationship would be off the table. Not only that, but because of Maya’s trauma from the assault, she probably wouldn’t be in the mental head space to date anybody. Even in the last installment of the series, she is getting there, but she isn’t ready to be with anyone romantically.

Not all female characters need romance subplots. Maya was a character that didn’t need a love interest, so she didn’t have one. She existed as her own character, and her plot focused on her, her familial relationships, and her friends. Some authors- mostly male- can’t comprehend that women can exist without a boyfriend, but Maya remained single the whole series. Another reminder that Fredrick Backman is a genius and one of- if not the only- man I trust to write female protagonists with grace and respect.

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[outragedtortilla]

They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.

#Fredrik Backman (Anxious People)

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[foulranchhumanoidpeanut]

There should be a separate category called 'women written by Backman'

#backman is a genius #fredrik backman #beartown #us against you #a man called ove #anxious people #women written by Backman #maya andersson #kira andersson #ramona #sonja #fatima #Elizabeth zackell

[wannabe-kafka]

benji ovich is the most my tears ricochet coded character ever

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[literateish]

“Some of us never manage to get the chaos under control, so our lives simply carry on, the world spinning through space at two million miles an hour while we bounce about on its surface like so many lost socks. Our hearts are bars of soap that we keep losing hold of; the moment we relax, they drift off and fall in love and get broken, all in the wink of an eye. We’re not in control.”

— Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman

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[wikibibs]

Gente Ansiosa- Fredrik Backman (+16 anos)

Esse não é um livro de mistério.

Sempre vi muita gente falando sobre esse livro, mas nunca me aprofundei o suficiente para saber se bem ou mal. No início desse ano vi a adaptação do mesmo autor para o cinema e fiquei curiosa com sua escrita, então ganhei esse livro de aniversário. E ainda bem que dei uma chance para ele.

Quem imaginaria que uma visita a um apartamento na antevéspera do ano novo poderia se tornar uma situação perigosa de revéns? Pois é. Um Assaltante de Banco que tem seus planos frustrados acaba fugindo do banco e indo até o apartamento que recebia a visita de um grupo diverso. É claro que a polícia chega e conhecemos uma dupla de policiais pai e filho que estão no caso. Então temos acesso aos depoimentos de cada uma das pessoas que estava no apartamento, cada uma mais detestável e prolixa que a outra, mas prometo que há um motivo para isso.

Conforme o passar do livro, vamos conhecendo mais as pessoas que foram até ali naquele dia ver aquele apartamento, os policiais e o Assaltante de Banco. O que me deixou meio sem saída a não ser criar uma forte empatia para com todos eles.

Sim, é um livro sobre idiotas egoístas que só se importam com suas próprias questões, mas também é um livro sobre empatia e conexão.

Devo contar a vocês que chorei por boa parte da leitura, mas adoraria relê-lo como se fosse a primeira vez. Porque nem sei o que estava esperando, mas fui positivamente surpreendida.

Agora estou louca para ler mais livros do autor, achei sua escrita diferente e cativante, me deixou querendo mais.

#fredrik backman #anxious people #gente ansiosa #resenha #resenha de livros #a man called ove

[melodysbookhaven]

“Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it. She tried to be one of them. She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is.”

Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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