I just read Anxious People. It is an amazing book. I was laughing out loud and ugly crying. It touched my soul so deeply. Definitely one of my top favorite books.
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry is the first Backman book I read and still stays my favourite. I had a very close relationship with my late grandma and this book is like a memoir I have never written. The Grandma can't get more different than my grandma, but the feelings and thoughts Backman writes about are just so pure and hit close to home. I cried my eyes out, and I know I will cry every time I pick this book up for a reread in the future. I also LOVED Beartown series and Anxious people! Am on a waiting list in my library to get Ove next! CAnt wait
Great Commentary. I love his books. Read A Man Called Ove first and loved. Beartown is a much deeper and heavier book, so very different, but also great. I can’t wait to the last book, The Winners comes out. Anxious People, different, too, but loved that one. I just finished up My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell you She’s Sorry. Hard to rank them, as it depends the mood I’m in as each covers different material. I still haven’t read Britt-Marie. So, A Book Called Ove, Anxious People, and Beartown top 3.
I hadn't heard the title of the 3rd book yet! For a while they were going with the title "Those Who Run Towards Fire" but I think Backman has enough long titles for his books so I'm happy with a shorter one! lol
YESSSSS I just read A Man Called Ove this year and it was soooo good and gave me all the feels. I had no idea the author wrote so many other books! Definitely needed to see this! :) Thank yoooouuuu!
LMAO THE INTRO💀 i love the weird mood you’re in haha!! thank you sm for making this💖 i love a man called ove & i just bought beartown & us against you 🤩
I had only read "And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer", it was really good despite being so short. I'm very interested to read The Man Called Ove! This is a really great video, I'm amazed of how much books you've read by him. 😊
Oh wow! I think you're the first person I've talked to that started with one of his novellas! I didn't even know about them for a while after they came out haha
I accidentally found A Man Called Ove and was so spellbound that I couldn't stop listening to the RUclips audiobook until 5 am! Absolutely loved it! I was so excited to find out if Fredrik wrote any other books and found your site! I love your commentary and the way you lay it out. Its going to be hard to beat A Man Called Ove. Going to read your second favorite Bear Town. Thank you!
It's always the best finding a new favorite author! And this is a great time to get into Beartown since the third book in the series is coming out later this year!
Ooh I love these kind of character focused stories, so I definitely need to give Fredrik Backman's books another go. I had them out of the library at the beginning of the year but couldn't quite get into them at the time, but more than likely that was more a me issue than the books haha!
Yeah, I definitely think he has a unique style that can be weird at first. It took me a bit to get into Ove (the first I read by him) even though it ended up being one of my favorites. And then I think since I was used to the style, I never had that hard of a time getting into his others
I only discovered Backman a few weeks ago, and I've been wondering on where to start, so this video really helped. Think Im gonna start with Ove, then Beartown. And when I read the synopsis of Ove I actually pictured the old man for UP!
Me too! I pictured him the entire time even though Ove is supposed to be younger than the man from Up, but they're personalities are so similar! I'm glad you found this video helpful 😊
@@FreshlyReadBooks I totally understand! I new to all of this as well. I honestly learn as I go and I get lucky when it turns out ok. Then I laugh at myself latter LOL
Hello. I have only just started reading properly ( and im 56 haha!) But have set a target of 52 books in 2021. Im on book 15 and I have read A man called Ove, which I loved. Soon after, I watched the film. I then read my grandmother sends her regards..as you say different title in the UK. It was a good story but i wondered how much of it was fantasy and maybe science fiction, then i settled for the girl just taking her nannies stories literally. I agree she was way beyond her year in every other way. I also read deal of a lifetime, which was clever. I found my grandmother.. hardest to follow but Im going for Britt Marie was here next, after watching your review. Thankyou ..
Beartown was the first Backman book I read. Simply because it got so much buzz when it came out. I was hooked to that one from the first page and found it very difficult to put down. I read the whole thing in a couple days which is really fast, for me. Great book with excellent writing. I have yet to read the second two in the Beartown trilogy but have heard from a lot of people that they're both very good. They also have incredibly high reader reception on Goodreads and Amazon so that's promising. I just started reading And Every Morning... and can already tell it's going to be very emotional and moving. I'm really looking forward to finishing it. I haven't read A Man Called Ove but do own a copy of it. I'll definitely be reading it sometime soon. Great video, by the way.
I’ve read some Backman recently and my top-list is 1. Beartown. All this rough aesthetics, some unexpectedly familiar vibes (cause I’m Russian and I was shocked how similar these vibes are) and everything.. 2. Owe (mind blowing for me. first look on Backman) 3. Anxious people (adorable and sweeet!) 4. Sequels of Beartown 5. My grandmother asked to sorry (I couldn’t read it till the end and it was too hard for me to read how they feed this dog..) Thank you for video!
I read A man Called Ove first and it is one of my favorite books. I tell everyone about it. There is even a movie about the book. Pretty acuate to the book as well. I can wait to start to read his other books.
I've watched the movie as well! It was great :) They've been planning a version in English for a long time now with Tom Hanks. I think they're finally getting started with it to! But it will be A Man Called Otto
Love Backman! The only two I haven't read are the nonfiction and Britt-Marie. I hope to get to it this year. 💚 I liked Ove but LOVED Beartown & Us Against You so I think the multiperspective is my favorite. Thanks for the video. Excited for Anxious People and hope it is more like Beartown.
Yes! When it comes to him, the multiple perspectives are definitely my favorite. You'll have to let me know how you end up liking the nonfiction and Britt-Marie if/when you end up reading them! 😊
"Backman is a master of writing delightful, insightful, soulful, character-driven narratives...[He] writes so humorously and poignantly about life, marriage, parenthood, love and death, prepare to be taken hostage by a stand-up philosopher/novelist who reminds us we are all ‘idiots’ because being human is ‘idiotically difficult.’” -USA Today if u want to buy this amazing book from amazon here is the link for that sites.google.com/view/bestbookshoponline/anxious-people ( Amazon affiliate website)
I'm Swedish and for a long time I didn't want anything to do with Backman and his Ove novel, because everyone was talking about it. Parents loved it, grandmothers loved it. Everyone loved it. I thought reading it would be like that bland Saturday entertainment show on our state television, you know the one that everyone thought was fine and okey (that is "not offensive and low key) but was hard to love and wouldn't stir up any emotions. Then I bought "Every day" at a second hand shop, without knowing it was the same writer, and loving it of course. After that I read all of his novels and short stories, and scrolled through his entire blogg site. Long story short. Like all his books. But utterly loved Grandmother (Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt). What I like most in his style of writing is the way he changes topics, by presenting a definition and the applying it on a character (maybe the character has that quality or he/she is the opposite of that. In my opinion, that is a Backman writing trademark. Least favorite: Anxious people.
Thank you for making this! My wife loved Ove and bought Britt Marie and Us Against You but struggled to get into them (probably didn’t help that they are sequels (which I was unaware of))
Thank you for suggesting I should! Britt Marie is not quite a sequel, but her character definitely exists in My Grandmother. But Us Against You is definitely a sequel and I think it would benefit from having the character introductions from the first book 😁
I read "And Every Morning the Walk Home Gets Longer and Longer" earlier this year and it wasn't really for me, so I decided not to check out his other works. But Beartown sounds interesting, I'll definitely give it a go! :)
Yeah, I don't actually know if I would have liked his novellas if I hadn't already read his other books, so I would definitely recommend giving him another shot! 😊
I read “a man named Ove” and “And Every Morning the ...” and I honestly didn’t really like either of them, but I found his most recently published book, Anxious people, to be absolutely beautiful. It’s a bit of a slow start, but it was incredibly captivating and a weird mix of depressing and wholesome
Can someone explain the love for A Man Called Ove? I mean, it was an easy read and not bad by any means. It just feels so generic, with all (and I mean ALL) the typical grumpy old man tropes. Nothing felt soecial at all by the book. Grumpy old man (not that old) who learns to change his ways late in life. Wife died, who was the only person who "understood" him. That's been done to death, right? Yes, I fully realize I now sound like a grumpy old man. Maybe the beauty of the writing style is lost in translation for me or something.
I watched "A Man Called Ove" after searching for underrated movies and I loved it. I have watched it 3 times and will surely watch it again. Recently I found the book "Beartown" in a recycle bin during a rainstorm, luckily it did not get wet and then I noticed the mention of it's author having written "A Man Called Ove" and was very intrigued. I googled and was surprised to find a tv series made for it. I watched all 5 hours in one sitting it was so captivating.
There's also a series for Anxious People (his 2021 book) and a movie for Britt-Marie. I'm watching through those now and hoping to do a video focused on Backman screen adaptations 😊
I just read Anxious People. It is an amazing book. I was laughing out loud and ugly crying. It touched my soul so deeply. Definitely one of my top favorite books.
My reactions exactly while reading it
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry is the first Backman book I read and still stays my favourite. I had a very close relationship with my late grandma and this book is like a memoir I have never written. The Grandma can't get more different than my grandma, but the feelings and thoughts Backman writes about are just so pure and hit close to home. I cried my eyes out, and I know I will cry every time I pick this book up for a reread in the future. I also LOVED Beartown series and Anxious people! Am on a waiting list in my library to get Ove next! CAnt wait
And every morning the way home gets longer and longer has a place in my heart because I'm 13 and my grandma has dementia so it hits home.
Great Commentary. I love his books. Read A Man Called Ove first and loved. Beartown is a much deeper and heavier book, so very different, but also great. I can’t wait to the last book, The Winners comes out. Anxious People, different, too, but loved that one. I just finished up My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell you She’s Sorry. Hard to rank them, as it depends the mood I’m in as each covers different material. I still haven’t read Britt-Marie. So, A Book Called Ove, Anxious People, and Beartown top 3.
I hadn't heard the title of the 3rd book yet! For a while they were going with the title "Those Who Run Towards Fire" but I think Backman has enough long titles for his books so I'm happy with a shorter one! lol
YESSSSS
I just read A Man Called Ove this year and it was soooo good and gave me all the feels. I had no idea the author wrote so many other books! Definitely needed to see this! :) Thank yoooouuuu!
Yes! I think his writing improved (although Ove will always hold a special place in my heart) so I definitely recommend the others! 😊
Loved Beartown and absolutely delighted to know that its a trilogy now. :)
LMAO THE INTRO💀 i love the weird mood you’re in haha!! thank you sm for making this💖 i love a man called ove & i just bought beartown & us against you 🤩
Awesome! I hope you love them 😁
I had only read "And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer", it was really good despite being so short.
I'm very interested to read The Man Called Ove! This is a really great video, I'm amazed of how much books you've read by him. 😊
Oh wow! I think you're the first person I've talked to that started with one of his novellas! I didn't even know about them for a while after they came out haha
I accidentally found A Man Called Ove and was so spellbound that I couldn't stop listening to the RUclips audiobook until 5 am! Absolutely loved it! I was so excited to find out if Fredrik wrote any other books and found your site! I love your commentary and the way you lay it out. Its going to be hard to beat A Man Called Ove. Going to read your second favorite Bear Town. Thank you!
It's always the best finding a new favorite author! And this is a great time to get into Beartown since the third book in the series is coming out later this year!
Ooh I love these kind of character focused stories, so I definitely need to give Fredrik Backman's books another go. I had them out of the library at the beginning of the year but couldn't quite get into them at the time, but more than likely that was more a me issue than the books haha!
Yeah, I definitely think he has a unique style that can be weird at first. It took me a bit to get into Ove (the first I read by him) even though it ended up being one of my favorites. And then I think since I was used to the style, I never had that hard of a time getting into his others
😂 First video of you I watched and the intro made me smile. You’re such a charismatic and positive person so I definitely saved your channel 😊
I only discovered Backman a few weeks ago, and I've been wondering on where to start, so this video really helped. Think Im gonna start with Ove, then Beartown.
And when I read the synopsis of Ove I actually pictured the old man for UP!
Me too! I pictured him the entire time even though Ove is supposed to be younger than the man from Up, but they're personalities are so similar! I'm glad you found this video helpful 😊
I love your intro! Welcome to the booktube community. Thanks for the book recs!
Thanks so much!! I'm very new to making any animations, but I had a lot of fun with it even though it took FOREVER 😂
@@FreshlyReadBooks I totally understand! I new to all of this as well. I honestly learn as I go and I get lucky when it turns out ok. Then I laugh at myself latter LOL
Appreciate! For the rankings and explanation! Keep going Sarah!🎉🎉🎉
Hello. I have only just started reading properly ( and im 56 haha!) But have set a target of 52 books in 2021. Im on book 15 and I have read A man called Ove, which I loved. Soon after, I watched the film. I then read my grandmother sends her regards..as you say different title in the UK. It was a good story but i wondered how much of it was fantasy and maybe science fiction, then i settled for the girl just taking her nannies stories literally. I agree she was way beyond her year in every other way. I also read deal of a lifetime, which was clever. I found my grandmother.. hardest to follow but Im going for Britt Marie was here next, after watching your review. Thankyou ..
This was helpful as I looooved Beartown but haven’t read any others. V excited for Anxious People
Yay! I'm glad! Yes, Anxious People sounds so good and like it will be the perfect premise for his writing style, I can't wait!
Read 5 of his books and loved them all. Just need to read the 2 books following Beartown and the novelas. I enjoy his perspectives and insights❤
Beartown was the first Backman book I read. Simply because it got so much buzz when it came out. I was hooked to that one from the first page and found it very difficult to put down. I read the whole thing in a couple days which is really fast, for me. Great book with excellent writing.
I have yet to read the second two in the Beartown trilogy but have heard from a lot of people that they're both very good. They also have incredibly high reader reception on Goodreads and Amazon so that's promising.
I just started reading And Every Morning... and can already tell it's going to be very emotional and moving. I'm really looking forward to finishing it.
I haven't read A Man Called Ove but do own a copy of it. I'll definitely be reading it sometime soon.
Great video, by the way.
I’ve read some Backman recently and my top-list is
1. Beartown. All this rough aesthetics, some unexpectedly familiar vibes (cause I’m Russian and I was shocked how similar these vibes are) and everything..
2. Owe (mind blowing for me. first look on Backman)
3. Anxious people (adorable and sweeet!)
4. Sequels of Beartown
5. My grandmother asked to sorry (I couldn’t read it till the end and it was too hard for me to read how they feed this dog..)
Thank you for video!
I read A man Called Ove first and it is one of my favorite books. I tell everyone about it. There is even a movie about the book. Pretty acuate to the book as well. I can wait to start to read his other books.
I've watched the movie as well! It was great :) They've been planning a version in English for a long time now with Tom Hanks. I think they're finally getting started with it to! But it will be A Man Called Otto
Love Backman! The only two I haven't read are the nonfiction and Britt-Marie. I hope to get to it this year. 💚 I liked Ove but LOVED Beartown & Us Against You so I think the multiperspective is my favorite. Thanks for the video. Excited for Anxious People and hope it is more like Beartown.
Yes! When it comes to him, the multiple perspectives are definitely my favorite. You'll have to let me know how you end up liking the nonfiction and Britt-Marie if/when you end up reading them! 😊
I'm reading The Man Called Ove by your suggestion. Thanks. It's a wonderful book.
I'm glad you liked it!!
I love this video. I had never heard of Backman before BookTube. My wife is currently reading the Grandma one and I want tonread Beartown.
I love Fredrik Backman!
"Backman is a master of writing delightful, insightful, soulful, character-driven narratives...[He] writes so humorously and poignantly about life, marriage, parenthood, love and death, prepare to be taken hostage by a stand-up philosopher/novelist who reminds us we are all ‘idiots’ because being human is ‘idiotically difficult.’” -USA Today
if u want to buy this amazing book from amazon here is the link for that sites.google.com/view/bestbookshoponline/anxious-people ( Amazon affiliate website)
12 points for intro from Croatia!
I'm Swedish and for a long time I didn't want anything to do with Backman and his Ove novel, because everyone was talking about it. Parents loved it, grandmothers loved it. Everyone loved it. I thought reading it would be like that bland Saturday entertainment show on our state television, you know the one that everyone thought was fine and okey (that is "not offensive and low key) but was hard to love and wouldn't stir up any emotions. Then I bought "Every day" at a second hand shop, without knowing it was the same writer, and loving it of course. After that I read all of his novels and short stories, and scrolled through his entire blogg site. Long story short. Like all his books. But utterly loved Grandmother (Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt). What I like most in his style of writing is the way he changes topics, by presenting a definition and the applying it on a character (maybe the character has that quality or he/she is the opposite of that. In my opinion, that is a Backman writing trademark.
Least favorite: Anxious people.
Thank you for making this!
My wife loved Ove and bought Britt Marie and Us Against You but struggled to get into them (probably didn’t help that they are sequels (which I was unaware of))
Definitely get Beartown, it is SO good!
Thank you for suggesting I should! Britt Marie is not quite a sequel, but her character definitely exists in My Grandmother. But Us Against You is definitely a sequel and I think it would benefit from having the character introductions from the first book 😁
Toni Weller I bought Bear Town last month 😄 just need to GET to the book now 😂
Freshly Read Books ahhh I see!
In Russian A man called Ove was translated as The second life of Ove what I like as well
I read anxious people loved it ,it has a rather satisfying happy ending
I listed to the audiobook of "us against you" while i was driving home from work. I couldn't see the road because I cried so much lmao
I read "And Every Morning the Walk Home Gets Longer and Longer" earlier this year and it wasn't really for me, so I decided not to check out his other works. But Beartown sounds interesting, I'll definitely give it a go! :)
Yeah, I don't actually know if I would have liked his novellas if I hadn't already read his other books, so I would definitely recommend giving him another shot! 😊
I read “a man named Ove” and “And Every Morning the ...” and I honestly didn’t really like either of them, but I found his most recently published book, Anxious people, to be absolutely beautiful. It’s a bit of a slow start, but it was incredibly captivating and a weird mix of depressing and wholesome
Beartown is the best book I have ever read!!
That thumbnail is PERFECTION
I from iran and i have all of these books and love it
My favorite book is britmarry
I'm sorry for my wrong comment
I can't write english well
That's a great favorite! I feel like Britt Marie is sometimes underrated
Can someone explain the love for A Man Called Ove?
I mean, it was an easy read and not bad by any means. It just feels so generic, with all (and I mean ALL) the typical grumpy old man tropes. Nothing felt soecial at all by the book. Grumpy old man (not that old) who learns to change his ways late in life.
Wife died, who was the only person who "understood" him. That's been done to death, right?
Yes, I fully realize I now sound like a grumpy old man. Maybe the beauty of the writing style is lost in translation for me or something.
I haven’t read a single one of his books. Bear town is high on my list!
I've seen A Man Called Ove everywhere but haven't ever picked it up, can't wait to try out Backman! Also, that is such a sweet mom gift.
That was how I got sucked in! I just kept seeing that cover everywhere until I eventually picked it up haha
I also think it's really strange that Ove is just 59 years old.. I would say he looks more like 65-70 in the swedish movie.
beartown is one of my favorite books
benji ovich is such a badass
Amei seu canal, e obrigado por colocar legendas em português. Vc é mto divertida.
How to get anxious people by Fredrik backman book for free in epub or pdf format???
Definitely late but, z library has plenty of pdf formats of the book!
Really unpopular opinion but A Man Called Ove is actually my least favorite book by him, favorites were us against you and the deal of a lifetime
I could see that. I definitely think his writing got better but Ove will always hold a special place in my heart😂
But yes, loved Us Against You!
I watched "A Man Called Ove" after searching for underrated movies and I loved it. I have watched it 3 times and will surely watch it again. Recently I found the book "Beartown" in a recycle bin during a rainstorm, luckily it did not get wet and then I noticed the mention of it's author having written "A Man Called Ove" and was very intrigued. I googled and was surprised to find a tv series made for it. I watched all 5 hours in one sitting it was so captivating.
There's also a series for Anxious People (his 2021 book) and a movie for Britt-Marie. I'm watching through those now and hoping to do a video focused on Backman screen adaptations 😊
I'm new here.... 😅
Had to stop watching! Your nonsense laughing all the time made it really annoying to listen to