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  Book: Anxious People Author: Fredrick Backman Translated to English from Swedish by: Neil Smith Genre: Humour and Domestic Fiction Published in English by: Penguin on 10th October 2021 Pages: 416 Adapted into: A Series on Netflix with the same name Recommended for: Age group above 15-16 No. 1 New York Times bestseller. Other books by the Author: A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Sends Her Apologies and Regards, Beartown, Us Against You, The Winners, Britt-Marie was Here, and Things My Son Needs to Know About the World.  Book Review: In these times of violence and cruelty, reading this book paves my way back to humanity. I have read quite a good number of Backman books to date, and in each of my reviews I have mentioned how he brings out the mundane lives, how he knit his stories around common people, and this one was no different, it’s just contrasting to previous ones because here he bought out the big struggles of human race placed on top of a peak formed by million little ...

  Reading for me is like Breathing. I can’t live without it and need it more on the days I reach certain heights. I inhale it deeply on days I want to calm my inner thoughts and exhale slowly on days I want calmness around me. Reading for me is a continuous process. On days when I am not reading the ink on paper, I am scrolling through articles on the web, or captions on posts. On some days I read people, their actions & gestures. Somedays, I even try to read about nature, leaves & flowers, insects & birds, rains & storms, it just never stops. And when I read this much, without an end, I often forget when my personality merges with the characters, how I melt into grieving characters or humans, and how I dance around in happiness with them. Sometimes late at night I often wonder- ‘Who Am I’, Am I an amalgamation of tens of thousands of people and characters I have read over the years or am I a complete individual personality like no other ever? And then I think ab...