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Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

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mathildaleakim's review against another edition

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dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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fantaiil's review against another edition

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Fredrik Bakmann is and will always be my favourite author. And this is his best one yet (in my opinion).
I love his words, his characters and how he makes me cry while talking about humans and their inability of saying, what they want to say.

This book is about love, despair, kids, dumb choices, pizza, love, marriage, kids and their parents, money, capitalism, love and a bridge. It's about the connection between people and the irrational things we do, when we feel emotions that are to big to describe.

Backman is a magician. A magician of words and sentences and making one feel and cry and laugh and feel once again.

I wish, I could buy this book a thousand times and gift it to everyone I know.

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stephs_cozycorner's review against another edition

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5.0

“𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚘𝚝𝚜."

It’s not often I can say I was completely and utterly hooked after the first chapter, but this book had me hooked from the get go.

I had no clue what this book was about and what I was getting into. I laughed (𝖺 𝗅𝗈𝗍), I cried (𝖺 𝗅𝗈𝗍) and I had every emotion in between.

Fredrik Backman has such a unique writing style. I fell in love with literally every single character in this book. They were an eclectic bunch of people. Each had something different to bring the pages, and following along with each of them as they went on this journey was both heart wrenching and beautiful. I loved how so many characters had connections they didn’t even know about.

The police interviews had me laughing out loud. The satire and comedy was just utter perfection.

𝘼𝙣𝙭𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 will be, without a doubt, in my top reads lists this year. I have not stopped thinking about this book and these characters.

Please do yourself a favour and pick this book up if you haven’t read it yet, you won’t be disappointed.

And note, I’ve purposely left you in the blind as I think going into this book blind is the way to go! You can read the synopsis if you must 🤣.

Also, please make note of trigger warnings as this book does deal with some sensitive topics.
⚠️ Suicide. Attempted suicide. Mental illness. Panic attacks. Death. Grief. Alcoholism. Addiction. Death of a parent.

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pinkbuttafly200's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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chasingpages1's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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runpinkyrun's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

made me cry for 6.8 hours

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ellaticonstellation's review against another edition

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challenging dark inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I read this after devouring “A Man Called Ove” (I watched “A Man Called Otto” on Netflix recently and I loved it) To be honest, I laughed so much during the witness interviews because all of them were acting so odd. As the story progressed, I understood why. My heart goes to everyone who is struggling in general. But as I always said, psychological issues are close to my heart (I’m a Psych graduate)

My heart always breaks when parents and children struggle because of the cruel economy.

Anna Leah, Zara, Julia, Ro, Roger, Lennert, Estelle, the bank robber, you guys are the best bunch because instead of judging the “robber” you guys were pretty understanding. It made me reflect on my life once again.

Oh, I like the progress Zara had with Nadia (psychologist). Every character was distinct and also inclusive of queer people. As a mom, I empathize with Ro and the bank robber’s burdens. It’s really hard to be a parent. No one is perfect as we all know, but we should always be decent human beings as long as we can.

Oh, Jim and Jack were so relatable as a father, son, and colleague police officers. Jim also understood the bank robber because he knew how hard it was to survive and raise kids. Jack did learn a lesson or two about empathy. Great touch💙

Fredrik, you’re starting to be one of my favorite authors. More power💕 P. S. I heard that there’s a series adaptation of this book, I will watch it for sure.

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