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“Boats that stay in the harbor are safe, sweetheart, but that’s not what boats were built for.”

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

February 5, 2021 by Caitlin_D 2 Comments

Fredrik Backman is easily one of my favorite authors. He consistently writes beautiful, gut twisting novels filled with believable characters who are often painted as fairly average, ordinary people thrust into somewhat extraordinary scenarios. If you haven’t read Beartown and Us Against You you’re really missing out on poetically breaking your heart into itty bitty little pieces. “This story is about a lot of things, but mostly about idiots. So it needs saying from the outset that it’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: anxious people, Fredrik Backman

Caitlin_D's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: anxious people, Fredrik Backman ·
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I laughed, I cried, I will re-read.

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

January 7, 2021 by narfna 10 Comments

“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.” This is my favorite of Backman’s books (that I’ve read) by quite a large margin. I would […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: anxious people, Fiction, Fredrik Backman, Mental Health, mystery, narfna, Swedish, Swedish fiction, translated

narfna's CBR13 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: anxious people, Fiction, Fredrik Backman, Mental Health, mystery, narfna, Swedish, Swedish fiction, translated ·
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A locked room mystery that is also a dark comedy and a reflection on mental health

Anxious poeple by Fredrik Backman

September 28, 2020 by jomidi 2 Comments

Fredrik Backman is a Swedish novelist who broke out a few years ago with the novel A Man Called Ove.  He is also a genius, which is proved by his latest offering Anxious People.  I have read everything he has written which has been published in English.  His latest might be his best (or at least a close second behind Ove). The premise is pretty simple.  A bank robber, who makes the mistake of trying to rob a cashless bank, escapes by running into an […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: anxious people, book club, Fiction, Fredrik Backman, humor, mystery

jomidi's CBR12 Review No:13 · Genres: Book Club, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Mystery · Tags: anxious people, book club, Fiction, Fredrik Backman, humor, mystery ·
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