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A review by iris_ymra
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
5.0
'We can’t change the world, and a lot of the time we can’t even change people. No more than one bit at a time. So we do what we can to help whenever we get the chance, sweetheart. We save those we can. We do our best. Then we try to find a way to convince ourselves that that will just have to… be enough. So we can live with our failures without drowning.'
'If you can do something for someone in such a way that they think they managed it all on their own, then you’ve done a good job.'
'Sometimes we don’t need distance, just barriers.'
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Anxious People; I've never seen (read) too many characters -- too many anxious people -- in a book that have a fairly important role each and every one of them at the same time along the storyline. The author is definitely a genius to come with such plot -- I'd say it feels scattered and all over the place yet organized altogether; and this is a compliment. I'd found myself jumping from a scene to another, yet I didn't lose track of what was happening before.
Along the story we keep guessing about how and what exactly was happening and were going to happen, perhaps you'd think you are smart to (feel) like finally sort everything out before everything ends, but boy you will be wrong because I was wrong too, but that just made this book a whole story of one of a kind for me.
I love my journey throughout my entire time reading this book. I could never able to describe in words, but to definitely recommend everyone to just give this book a read, and we will nod and gesture to the same move and never need to say anything about what we feel.
And, yes, if you were to be held hostage by a bank robber, then there's no better company to be in than all of the characters in this book.
'If you can do something for someone in such a way that they think they managed it all on their own, then you’ve done a good job.'
'Sometimes we don’t need distance, just barriers.'
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Anxious People; I've never seen (read) too many characters -- too many anxious people -- in a book that have a fairly important role each and every one of them at the same time along the storyline. The author is definitely a genius to come with such plot -- I'd say it feels scattered and all over the place yet organized altogether; and this is a compliment. I'd found myself jumping from a scene to another, yet I didn't lose track of what was happening before.
Along the story we keep guessing about how and what exactly was happening and were going to happen, perhaps you'd think you are smart to (feel) like finally sort everything out before everything ends, but boy you will be wrong because I was wrong too, but that just made this book a whole story of one of a kind for me.
I love my journey throughout my entire time reading this book. I could never able to describe in words, but to definitely recommend everyone to just give this book a read, and we will nod and gesture to the same move and never need to say anything about what we feel.
And, yes, if you were to be held hostage by a bank robber, then there's no better company to be in than all of the characters in this book.