Anxious People The No. 1 New York Times bestseller, now a Netflix TV Series

There are few books in life that you read and think more often than you should. This is one of those books. So many characters and each character has their own backstory. Wonderfully written and beautifully executed. Must read ❤️ PS: It’s a little long but you’ll get used to it.

This story is about people (idiots), filled with wisdom, warmth, sincerity, humor, and food for thought before bedtime. Backman is definitely my author. He knows how to lead the reader around by the finger and then explain everything clearly. His writing is simple yet full of meaning. He touches the strings of the soul to the point of tears, because in his characters you can find yourself and your own worries - the ones that make you wonder "Am I enough?"and "Am I a good person?" My very insistent recommendation to get acquainted with Backman!

A beautiful books with real characters. 4.5 The writing is weird, emotional, and thought provoking at the same time. The pacing is good and I was never once bored. I enjoyed most of these characters and loved how at the end everything came together and they found each other. I like the conversations that happened in the book about life, morality, parenthood and society and how difficult sometimes all of these actually are. I love the fact that the we got to know random snippets people’s life it was fun. My favourite characters would be Zara because she was so empathetic challenged and had OCD but still somehow she was hilariously blunt. Also Lennart he’s just funny. I was so pleasantly surprised when they got a love story in the end. The character development in the book was sweet especially with Roger. Also Anna-Lena story with her career was surprising too. They chose each other at end. I agree that this story is also about a hostage drama and love and the bridge because it changed peoples life with the incidents involved around it. Something I did not like was the lack of description on Ro’s racial dentity and the bank robbers gender, but I assume that bank robbers gender was hidden because the author wanted to play the readers into thinking, the robber is a man and not guess that she escaped as an estate agent, but again the author played us because she really did not escape as an estate agent but someway else, I don’t have much of anything else to complain because I was enamoured.

This book is very easy to read, which I mean in the best possible way. It touches upon various aspects of life and is so honest about the problems people face. And it is also very funny.

I wanted to get back into reading after not having read for a very long time and this was the first book I read - definitely a wise choice as it has reignited my love for reading and made me wonder why I ever stopped. What most people love so much about reading is all the emotions a story or a character can evoke in the reader and this book certainly evokes a lot of emotion. You laugh, you cry, you contemplate all the choices you made in your life and think about all the people you have encountered. All the characters as well as the interactions are so well written with bits of humour but also bits of serious topics which makes this a really well balanced and thought out story! The only thing I did not like was that 2 characters who have briefly met once before basically immediately fall for each other when they see each other again, which I did not appreciate because it was so clichee and predictable and just unrealistic in my opinion (and also feels kind of lazy? there are better ways to show that two characters deeply care for each other because of an earlier event that kind of ties them together) but since this is just a very small part of the whole story I can definitely look past it.