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thebearsfrombeartown · 6 months
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no one writes human beings like fredrik backman
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llovelymoonn · 1 year
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on love and names
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positivelypositive · 8 months
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there are always...
...going to be people who will find faults in whatever and whoever they see.
it's important you recognise such people and understand that it's their own insecurities that they are projecting.
don't let their words affect you. and do not become that person yourself. be kind to yourself and others ✨
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melodysbookhaven · 2 months
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“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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ellickalways · 1 year
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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 · 1 year
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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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indigoreed1 · 2 months
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Fredrick Backman casually figured out the meaning of life actually. He’s got it down. Read his books. Watch as this nice old man deconstructs human behavior time and time again in a harrowing yet hopeful way.
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genyasafinsmissingeye · 8 months
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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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karsticlife · 2 months
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lelysiany · 7 months
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I write a lot even after graduating high school and it makes me think. I didn't really like school in it self, but I loved that I could write. It didn't matter what I was writing but I just liked the activity of writing, everything else about school gave me immense amount of anxiety. It took me 2 years after graduating to realize that I don't have to be extremely stressed anymore when September, December and May came (in my country September 1st is the 1st day of school, December, end of the first semester when grades need to be passing, and May is the end of the school year and also the grades need to be passing(obviously)).
Drawing has also been a big part of my life, not just hoarding handwritten information, that's why I've become a tattoo artist but that's a story for some other day, because I wish art wasn't a struggle from time to time.
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“Because that was a parent’s job: to provide shoulders. Shoulders for your children to sit on when they’re little so they can see the world, then stand on when they get older so they can reach the clouds, and sometimes lean against whenever they stumble and feel unsure.”
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, translated by Neil Smith
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outragedtortilla · 6 months
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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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💛 Yellow Stack 💛
Thank you for the tag @leer-reading-lire and @someonelookingpraediti! <3
Pictured from top to bottom: The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee, Fangirl, Volume 2: The Manga by Rainbow Rowell, Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, Circe by Madeline Miller, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan, Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell, Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey, Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri, Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Tagging anyone else who wants to do this! (If you do, tag me!)
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positivelypositive · 3 months
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if you've been feeling...
...like nothing is going right, no matter how hard you are trying then maybe it's time to take a tiny step back.
sometimes, blocks need more than a short rest. sometimes, you need a longer, more real, more relaxing rest before you move on to the next step.
in these moments, it can seem like a crime to even think about a long break. allow yourself this luxury. fight for yourself ✨
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melodysbookhaven · 8 months
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“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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There should be a separate category called 'women written by Backman'
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