{"id":23293,"date":"2025-09-28T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23293"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:15:01","slug":"book-47-of-52-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/book-47-of-52-my-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 47 (of 52) &#8211; My Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23294\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/myfriends.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23294\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23294\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/myfriends.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/myfriends.jpg 332w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/myfriends-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Friends &#8211; Fredrik Backman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A chance encounter with the artist of her favorite painting just hours before his death sends a young woman on an adventure with one of his best friends, learning about the artist and his childhood friends and what led to the creation of the painting.\u00a0 Along the way, they come to realize that while loss is part of life, you find people through the journey to fill in those spaces.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in two-plus years, Fredrik Backman crosses my path again with his latest offering, <em>My Friends<\/em>.\u00a0 This is a tale of how like-minded people come together and how the moments of our childhood friendships can outshine the painful realities of real life for decades.\u00a0 I really do need to dive into Backman&#8217;s back catalog one of these days, since I always enjoy his work when I read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chance encounter with the artist of her favorite painting just hours before his death sends a young woman on an adventure with one of his best friends, learning about the artist and his childhood friends and what led to the creation of the painting.\u00a0 Along the way, they come to realize that while loss [&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":[9348,12145],"class_list":["post-23293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-fredrik-backman","tag-my-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293","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=23293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23309,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293\/revisions\/23309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}