#vinnarna

[lurkingteapot]

When some boys find their first best friend it’s the first real love of their lives, they just don’t know what falling in love is yet, so that’s how they learn what love is: it feels like climbing trees, it feels like jumping in puddles, it feels like having one single person in your life who you don’t even want to play hide-and-seek with because you can’t bear being without him for a single minute. For most boys this infatuation obviously fades as the years pass, but for some it never does.

—Fredrik Backmann, "The Winners". English translation by Neil Smith.

[thebearsfrombeartown]

The Winners - first read livestream thought vomit

Sorry it’s taken me so long to start posting this, I’ve been so insanely busy I’ve literally had no fucking time whatsoever

buckle up kiddos this gonna be a looonnnnggg post with lots of reblogs and shit. I don’t really think there are gonna be any super specific spoilers in here but to be safe, but I will try to tag each reblog with the winners livestream reaction so if you haven’t read/finished the winners yet maybe avoid this and block that tag for now? I apologize in advance but this is just my stream of consciousness reactions as I’m making my way through the book.

Disclaimer: I listen to the audiobooks I have no idea how to fucking spell anyones names

[prettbesce]

700 pages of pure angst let's go ⁄(⁄ ⁄•⁄-⁄•⁄ ⁄)⁄

[thebearsfrombeartown]

Update/Announcement:

It has come to my attention that Vinnarna/The Winners has been released in multiple languages besides Swedish now. I am a monolinguistic loser from the U.S. who has to wait until September 27 to read The Winners. This is a spoiler free blog. So, please, to everyone lucky enough to have already had Fredrik Backman rip out your heart, please don’t comment or reblog any of my posts with any spoilers. Please

The beartown fandom’s not big, not by a long shot lmao, but it’s growing (yay!!!!!) so I’m going to probably wind up having to unfollow all my beartown tags temporarily because I don’t want to risk coming across spoilers 😭😭😭

I’m probably not going to be reblogging or posting much between now (7/23/22) and late September because I really want to try not to read any spoilers by accident. Rest assured that when my monolinguistic ass finally, at long last gets to read The Winners, nothing and no one can stop me absolutely fucking SCREAMING about Beartown and Benji Ovich and how terribly Fredrik Backman has destroyed me

[thebearsfrombeartown]

!!!!!!!!NEW BEARTOWN BOOK SUMMARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I google translated the summary of the third Beartown book, Vinnarna (The Winners) and I can’t even holy shit oh my god stop i am sooooo excited dude. i cannot. asdfgasdff

original swedish summary can be found here and without further ado, may i present the google translate english summary of The Winners:

This is a little story about big questions: What is a family? What is a hockey club? What is a society? And what are we willing to sacrifice to protect them? It has been two years since everything that no one wants to think about happened, everyone has tried to move on but something with this part of the forest never really allows us to do it. We are a city with sadness in our hearts and violence in the air, we love fairy tales with happy endings, but deep down we probably always knew that this was not the case. It starts with a storm, this time, and ends with a fire. Someone who has been away for a long time is on his way home. Someone was buried. Someone falls in love, someone dreams of the NHL and someone dreams of revenge. Someone is sleeping back to back with their best friend, someone is trying to fix their marriage and someone is trying to save their children. Someone hates, someone fights, someone takes a firearm and walks towards an ice rink. Everything we fought for will not survive, all we love will not grow old. So what is a family? A hockey club? A community? They are the sum of our choices. What are we willing to sacrifice to protect them? All. Just everything.

This is the last part of Fredrik Backman's beloved trilogy about Björnstad. The first two books, "Björnstad" and "Vi mot er", reached the New York Times bestseller list and became a television series on HBO. The "winners" are a striking, violent and deeply loving ending to the history of the hockey city and its people.

[thebearsfrombeartown]

Beartown Book 3 (The Winners) Update

So not october 6 for us lame english speakers :(

no set date yet  :(   :(   :(   :(

[thebearsfrombeartown]

Oh god. Now that Vinnarna’s dropped I gotta stop checking the benji ovich (and maybe even beartown 😭) tags or else I’m gonna get spoilers and some knowledge I really really don’t want to know

NO ONE TELL ME THAT BENJI DIES I DO NOT FUCKING WANT TO KNOW I WILL KEEP LIVING MY LIFE IN BLISSFUL IGNORANCE AND BELIEVING IN MY HEART THAT BENJI IS SOMEWHERE ALIVE AND HAPPY AND WELL even though my head knows it’s probably not true

DO NOT SPOIL THIS PEACE FOR ME PLEASE I CANNOT FUCKING HANDLE IT I NEED TO CLING TO MY FRAGILE EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FANTASY

[ansalm]

Teil 3 der "Björnstad"- Trilogie

"Vad är livet, mer än ögonblick?"

Was ist das Leben anderes als Augenblicke?

Was ist eine Familie, was Freunde, was ein Hockeyclub? Und wozu sind wir bereit und fähig, um sie zu schützen?

Dieser dritte Teil, "vinnarna" - Gewinner - schliesst die Björnstad-Trilogie ab. Zwei Jahre nach den furchtbaren Ereignissen herrscht eine Art Waffenstillstand zwischen Björnstad und Hed, bis der Konflikt zwischen den Hockey-Städten wieder aufbricht.

"Sorg i hjärtat. Våld i luften." Figuren, die wir lieb gewonnen haben, werden sterben, andere stark werden und ihre Bestimmung finden. Ein kleiner Kirschbaum wird aufblühen.

Das Spiel mit Vorausdeutungen und Wiederholungen, verschiedenen Perspektiven auf dieselben Ereignisse, fesselt und zieht einen in einem Sog hinein in die Welt hoch im Norden in den Wäldern.

Das Dumme am dritten Teil einer Trilogie ist nur, dass es das Ende ist.

Jag kommer att sakna bara allt.