{"id":25001,"date":"2026-10-30T02:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=25001"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:29:58","slug":"book-57-of-52-beartown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/book-57-of-52-beartown\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 57 (of 52) &#8211; Beartown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25002\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/beartown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25002\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25002\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/beartown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/beartown.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/beartown-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beartown &#8211; Fredrik Backman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hockey is more than a sport in Beartown, it is a way of life.\u00a0 When the junior team finds themselves in line for the championship for the first time in generations, things start looking up for the whole town.\u00a0 But when the star player is accused of raping the daughter of the team&#8217;s GM and is arrested the morning of the final, it puts the towns loyalty to the test, a test which many fail.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2023, I inadvertently read <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/book-10-of-52-the-winners\/\"><em>The Winners<\/em><\/a>, the third book of Fredrik Backman&#8217;s <em>Beartown<\/em> series.\u00a0 It certainly took me a while to circle back to the beginning, which I have finally done with <em>Beartown<\/em>.\u00a0 I retained enough of the previous book where the characters are familiar to me, but not enough to fully remember where they all end up, which, I guess, is a good thing.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s hoping it doesn&#8217;t take me another three and a half years to read the middle chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hockey is more than a sport in Beartown, it is a way of life.\u00a0 When the junior team finds themselves in line for the championship for the first time in generations, things start looking up for the whole town.\u00a0 But when the star player is accused of raping the daughter of the team&#8217;s GM and [&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":[10396,9348,10395],"class_list":["post-25001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-beartown","tag-fredrik-backman","tag-the-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25005,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25001\/revisions\/25005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}