Nderstated love emerges one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the island itself with its mossy rocks windswept firs and unpredictable seasFull of brusque humour and wisdom The Summer Book is a profoundly life affir.
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❮KINDLE❯ ✿ Sommarboken Author Tove Jansson – 59pic.co An elderly artist and her six year old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland Gradually the two learn to adjust to each other's fears whims and yearnings foAn elderly artist and her six year old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland Gradually the two learn to adjust to each other's fears whims and yearnings for independence and a fierce yet u.
Sommarboken PDF/EPUB Ü Paperback sommarboken pdf, Sommarboken PDFThis is the quietest great book I've ever readEvery once in a while I read a book that makes me jealous that makes me wish I could write and do what the book did Like this one It's a wisp of a book brief with no plot to speak of and only two real characters no compelling crisis to drive the action no suspenseI almost cried when it endedIt's like a watercolor of only four or five easy strokes that you can't help but stare at for hoursYeahSo this girl Sophia and her
Sommarboken PDF/EPUB Ü Paperback sommarboken pdf, Sommarboken PDFMy favorite summer reading recommendation‘ The forest was full of signs and portents its own secret written language’Tove Jansson the world renowned creator of the Moomintroll characters succinctly harnesses the power and glory of a seaside summer season in the twenty two elegant vignettes contained within The Summer Book Here is a book in no need of magic or any other fantastical adornments as she reminds us that we can discover pure beautiful magic in the natural world all around us if only we quiet our lives and open our eyes to it Set upon a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland much like where Jansson?
Sommarboken PDF/EPUB Ü Paperback sommarboken pdf, Sommarboken PDFWhy do only the very very young or the very very old have time to ponder what heaven is like? Or to bask in the simple act of diving? Or to invent stories about mice and worms and write a novel about a day in their animal lives? Maybe because grandmothers are the only people in the world capable of educating using the art of playing and granddaughters are the only ones ready to play with grandmothers seriously This is in short what Tove Jansson portrays in The Summer Book a summer that is not Mediterranean and a book that is not only for children but rather for those of all ages who still see the world as a place full of potential wonder and adventureJansson evokes the chilly nights of August the virulence of summer storms and the silent walks on the untamed beaches of a lost island in Finland with tenderness and mischievous
Sommarboken PDF/EPUB Ü Paperback sommarboken pdf, Sommarboken PDFThis book is beautiful enchanting miraculous magicalThe writing is lovely The characters are charming and real The stories give an immersive look at the as yet otherwise unknown to me experience of a Scandinavian summer that feels totally new and simultaneously gives a look at a childhood summer that is so familiar and comfortable and nostalgic It's a dream That's allBottom line I don't intend to let another summer go by without me reading this book during it pre reviewsaw this one coming from a mile awayreview to come 5 stars have you ever picked up a book and instantly known it was exactly what you needed it to be?huge 5 star energy from the first page
Sommarboken PDF/EPUB Ü Paperback sommarboken pdf, Sommarboken PDFAs luck would have it there was a Tove Jansson exhibition on at the Helsinki Ateneum while I was in town – August marks the centenary of her birth It's still strange to me to realise that a hundred years ago is only the twentieth century now To me ‘last century’ still suggests Oscar Wilde Thomas Hardy Amidst all the seascapes moody self portraits and Moomin sketches I was fascinat
Sommarboken PDF/EPUB Ü Paperback sommarboken pdf, Sommarboken PDFRating 45 of fiveThe Publisher Says In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty two crystalline vignettes This brief novel tells the story of Sophia a six year old girl awakening to existence and Sophia’s grandmother nearing the end of hers as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland The grandmother is unsentimental and wise if a little cranky Sophia is impetuous and volatile but she tends to her grandmother with the care of a new parent Together they amble over coastline and forest in easy companionship build boats from bark create a miniature Venice write a fanciful study of local bugs They discuss things that matter to young and old alike life death the nature of God and of love “On an island” thinks the grandmother “everything is complete” In The Summer Book Jansson creates her own complete world full of the varied joys and sorrows of lifeTove Jansson whose Moomintroll comic str
Sommarboken PDF/EPUB Ü Paperback sommarboken pdf, Sommarboken PDFTotally charming and remarkably deep little book makes for a very happy afternoon Jannson's talent shines through in her depiction of both the old and the young The Grandmother and Sophia have much in common and the novel is revelation on how to write different ages with honesty and clarity It's such a lean thing that it's not particularly worth pulling out individual episodes but there are a couple of moments Sophia's book on worms a thwarted party that will stick with me Gorgeous descriptions A wonderful consistency in usage of words like nice and pretty words that should be used oftenIf I had to describe it I would say that it's sort of the spiritual link between Sei Shonagon and Lydia Davis
Sommarboken PDF/EPUB Ü Paperback sommarboken pdf, Sommarboken PDF One time in April there was a full moon and the sea was covered with iceDo you remember when you were a child so many books were enchanting casting a spell of wonder and reverence over you that you carried around long after the book was finished? Even if the book contained absolutely no magic or fantasy but was down to earth about the lives of real people and ordinary experiences told in an extraordinary way? Then you graduated to adult books and began to wonder why really wonderful books and authors for adults were so rare and difficult to discover Like this summer island a perfectly ordinary and absolute
Sommarboken PDF/EPUB Ü Paperback sommarboken pdf, Sommarboken PDFOne tiny island in the gulf of Finland comes to represent a complete world full of miracle and mystery safety and danger as we are swept happily along through the adventures of a feisty indomitable little girl and her refreshingly different grandmotherRead this perfect little book and better still give it to everyone you know for Christmas
Sommarboken PDF/EPUB Ü Paperback sommarboken pdf, Sommarboken PDFI'd temporarily put away The Horn Island Logs of Walter Inglis Anderson to get to other books and then this one arrived from the library The character of Grandmother and the setting immediately called to mind Anderson and the tiny island of his nonfictional logs Both Anderson and Grandmother live at times on an island where they are tolerant though very wary of outsiders They find their place in the island world by observing the minutest of lives there knowing they're just another small element They are determined to become a part of its ecosystem without changing it though they are too much of realists to know that doing so completely is possible Neither is sentimental about the natural world or really about anything They are artists and create works carved out of wood that are ephemeral and that others will not necessarily see They the carvings retained their wooden souls and the curve of their b