Seriously, this feels like one of those rare, urgent reading moments. The kind where you want to shake people by the shoulders and tell them to drop whatever they’re doing because they need to read this right now.

I went with the audiobook, and the narrator is wonderful, but however you take it in, it’s worth pressing pause on every other piece of media in your life. It’s… god, it’s just gorgeous in the way only a book can be. Backman has this ability to make every sentence feel like it was set down exactly where it belonged, without a word out of place.

Without giving anything away, I keep thinking about these characters and what they mean to each other. It fills me with this deep, aching kind of longing. Not jealous exactly, just that feeling you get when you’ve brushed up against something rare and human and honest. It lingers in the corners of your thoughts long after you’ve closed it.

The beauty of My Friends isn’t just in its story but in the way it reminds you that connection is both fragile and worth every risk. You feel it in the quiet moments, in the small exchanges, in the way people choose to show up for each other when it matters. Backman writes with such empathy that you start carrying these people around with you, replaying their choices and wondering how they’re doing, even though you know they only exist in these pages.

It’s one of the most beautiful reading experiences I’ve had in a long time, and I’m not sure I’ll be ready to let it go anytime soon.

I loveee this so much!!! Frederick Backman never misses, so so beautifully written. He has this way with words, one second you'd be like that was funny and the very next second he'd give you the most gut wrenching sentence, and loved this so much. Never let's it get too dark, makes you feel warm and sad all at once. There were so many moments I found myself shedding a tear or two, and honestly that's my favourite thing about reading, to be able to feel something this deeply ❤️‍🩹

The story was layered and balanced so well, with the constant switch between past and present, just one little thing annoyed me, the constant mention of this huge thing about to happen at the end of summer, felt repetitive and made it a little anticlimactic? But other than this, I LOVEDD THIS!!! 
Always felt like I was along for the journey with the idiots <3

Ted, Joar, Ali, KimKim and Louisa will forever have my heart 🫶🏼

This one will surely stay with me for a long time, easily my favourite author <3


"Throughout our entire existence we have been on the run, first from wild animals, then from each other"