My Friends

I always like this author. The style was still very nice, but the plot/storyline was too thin. Would've been great as a novella

This is the first Fredrik Backman book I've listened to that didn't hit for me. Parts of the book were beautiful, but it is a very long story. Many themes are repeated over and over again. I didn't think it needed to be a 13 hour audiobook. The narrator did an amazing job. This story felt much more stream of consciousness than other books I've read by him, which I tend to not enjoy. Frienship is important, and so is art, but I must be the worst kind of person (an adult) because I just wasn't feeling it.

What an amazing book on friendship, coming of age, love, and lost!

I enjoyed the story telling in the book and all the characters. It’s complicated to write in present and past tense so consistently. Backman is very talented.

I can honestly say that my soul felt renewed after reading this book. I was moved to tears by the connections that were made by art across very different lives, and by Backman's exploration of the ways that friends can remain deeply within us - whether they are near us or not.