{"id":17269,"date":"2021-04-14T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=17269"},"modified":"2021-04-17T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T16:28:00","slug":"book-15-of-52-anxious-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/book-15-of-52-anxious-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 15 (of 52) &#8211; Anxious People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17270\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/anxiouspeople.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17270\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17270\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/anxiouspeople.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/anxiouspeople.jpg 350w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/anxiouspeople-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anxious People &#8211; Fredrik Backman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In <em>Anxious People<\/em>, Fredrik Backman tells a story about a bridge.\u00a0 Or, maybe, about idiots.\u00a0 Or about a bank robbery that wasn&#8217;t, which turned into a hostage situation that, again, wasn&#8217;t.\u00a0 With nothing quite what it seems, a group of people, connected by circumstances new and old, are interviewed by the police as they try to find the hostage taker.<\/p>\n<p>I first heard of <em>Anxious People<\/em>\u00a0when it finished second, to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/book-7-of-52-the-midnight-library\/\"><em>The Midnight Library<\/em><\/a>, in the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction novel of 2020.\u00a0 It kept popping up, since my friend Val had read it, and it seemed interesting.\u00a0 Backman&#8217;s style her was something completely different, giving away hints and facts about the characters in the story, and the story itself, in bits and pieces as the tale moves along.\u00a0 I&#8217;d be interested in seeing what else Backman has done and hope he can deliver again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Anxious People, Fredrik Backman tells a story about a bridge.\u00a0 Or, maybe, about idiots.\u00a0 Or about a bank robbery that wasn&#8217;t, which turned into a hostage situation that, again, wasn&#8217;t.\u00a0 With nothing quite what it seems, a group of people, connected by circumstances new and old, are interviewed by the police as they try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9347,9348,9295,9308,6582],"class_list":["post-17269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-anxious-people","tag-fredrik-backman","tag-goodreads-choice-awards","tag-the-midnight-library","tag-val"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17269"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17276,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17269\/revisions\/17276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}