#beartown by fredrik backman

[teeksay]

auston matthews — beartown

#no shot someone hasn't already done this #auston matthews post more baby pictures challenge #i ended up in the dregs of the internet for some of these #auston matthews #ema matthews #toronto maple leafs #hockey poetry #web weaving #hockey #beartown #fredrik backman #*edit

[thebearsfrombeartown]

no one writes human beings like fredrik backman

#fredrik backman #beartown #anxious people #My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry #a man called ove #brit marie was here #like for fucks sake #how is this man so fucking insanely good #what the actual fuck

[contagiousrhythminmybrain]

Beartown series - first & last lines

Beartown pg. 1 Late one evening toward the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barreled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else's forehead, and pulled the trigger. This is the story of how we got there. pg. 415 Because people recognize the bear around here. Cherry trees always smell of cherry trees. They do that in hockey towns. Us Against You pg. 1 Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. We'll end up saying that violence came to Beartown this summer, but that will be a lie; the violence was already here. Because sometimes hating one another is so easy that it seems incomprehensible that we ever do anything else. pg. 434 Because it's a simple game if you strip away all the crap surrounding it and just keep the things that made us love it in the first place. Everyone gets a stick. Two nets. Two teams. Us against you. The Winners pg. 1 Everyone who knew Benjamin Ovich, particularly those of us who knew him well enough to call him Benji, probably knew deep down that he was never the sort of person who would get a happy ending. pg. 670 One day she will make us feel like winners again. Because she's the bear. The bear from Beartown.

#beartown #us against you #the winners #books #litedit #fredrik backman #edit by a

[viridializard]

all heart

#benji ovich #beartown #the winners #fredrik backman #tw blood

[broresteia]

dont read beartown unless you want to like. cry all the time

#beartown #fredrik backman #doodles #benji ovich my child…

[ellickalways]

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.

#fredrik backman #the winners #beartown #us against you #my grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry #a man called ove #britt-marie was here #anxious people #any of these please #just go and read

[yearning4life]

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

#fredrik backman #a man called ove #beartown #anxious people #books #book quotes #literature quotes #chaotic thoughts #chaotic academia #dark academia

[catocomet]

ohhhh shut up the way benji ovich literally gives and gives and gives and no one recognizes it because they refuse to look deeper or because he doesn't let them. its interchangeable tbh. the way he destroys the rest of the bathroom for maya. the way he gives her his and k/vin's island. i will never be quiet about him

#i love benji ovich #HATE fredrik backman though. hes too good of an author #benji ovich #beartown #us against you #the winners #beartown hbo #bjornstad

[loucygoosey]

A VERY experimental Maya sketch,,, I miss these kids sm man I need to pick up the winners again

#fanart #digital art #beartown #maya andersson #fredrik backman #my artwork #goosey's doodles

[quotemadness]

Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with.

Fredrik Backman, Beartown

#Fredrik Backman Beartown #quotes #quote #lit #literature

[biblically-accurate-soup]

boys when beartown trilogy

#uriel posting #beartown #fredrik backman #i have been sitting here staring at the winners for thirty minutes. i read the first page. #i am. scared of what this book is gonna do to me .

[andreai04]

There are thousands of ways to die in Beartown. Especially on the inside.

#reading #books read in 2024 #bookblr #books #book photography #book blog #bibliophile #books reading #books and reading #beartown #beartown series #fredrik backman #hockey #hockey town #realistic fiction #fiction #coming of age #hard truths #tw rap3 #survivor story #loyalty #town v individual #club v individual #beautifully written #hard to read at times #but important #really loved this #review #four stars #january reads

[viridializard]

more beartown art 🥲

#maya andersson #benji ovich #beartown #the winners #us against you #fredrik backman

[genyasafinsmissingeye]

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.

#beartown #Bjornstad #maya andersson #amat beartown #beartown amat #Fredrik Backman #us against you #the winners #benji ovich #benjamin ovich #kevin erdahl #peter andersson #kira andersson #books #book #anxious people

[totaleebookedout]

I will go to war for Benji Ovich

#beartown #fredrik backman

[shallanspren]

i finished the winners last night so naturally i want to start a class action lawsuit against backman

#beartown #fredrik backman #three book warning is not enough time