If you are honest, people may deceive you. Be honest anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfishness. Be kind anyway. All the good you do today will be forgotten by others tomorrow. Do good anyway.
– Beartown
It’s been so long since I’ve truly gotten lost in a book. But Beartown–Beartown pulled me right back to those old days. I didn’t expect it, honestly. The beginning felt a little slow, with a whole lot of characters and everything seeming a bit too perfect… and then, out of nowhere, the story takes a turn.
Somehow, without realizing it, I ended up buying a house and moving into the small town of Beartown- well, at least in my head haha. It really got me. 10 pages, then 30, then 50… suddenly I’d read 160 pages in one go, then another 150 the next day. That’s how it happened.
I’ve written about Fredrik Backman before – his book Anxious People was one of those reads that quietly stayed with me. I even blogged about it here.
And now again, with Beartown, he pulled me into a world so raw and real that I didn’t even notice how deep I’d gone.
What really stayed with me was the quiet tension – this constant pull between doing what’s right for yourself versus doing what’s expected by the team or the town. It sneaks up on you, emotionally. You don’t even realize how deeply you’ve gotten involved until you’re right in the middle of it.
Beartown didn’t just tell a story—it made me feel something. And maybe, after a long time, that’s exactly what I needed. Looks like its a trilogy so im looking forward to the next books. I’ll be oldschool and just go looking at bookstores in Seattle to see if they have the 2nd book available there haha. It builds up the adventure and makes getting the book more fun that way!
What was the last book that made you get lost in it? Would love to know more about it!
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