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• Magical Finnish Stories – With Not a Moomin in Sight

  Tove Jansson Writer and artist Tove Jansson is best known for her children’s books about the Moomins, which I have never read, but she also wrote for adults, and The Summer Book and A Winter Book are both utterly enchanting. The first is the story of an elderly artist who spends the summer with her…

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  July 9, 2012

  A Winter Book, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Sort of Books, The Summer Book, Tove Jansson

• Parisian Pictures Take Two!

  This week’s Saturday Snapshots don’t need many words, because they’re a collection of some of my favourite views of Paris, taken over the last two or three years. My parents were very fond of the city, and planned to celebrate their Diamond Wedding Anniversary there, but sadly Dad died a few months before their special…

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  July 7, 2012

  boats, Eiffel Tower, Flower Market, flowers, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Italian food, Notre Dame, Paris, Paris in July, River Seine, Saturday Snapshot

• The Provincial Lady in a Floral Cover

  I picked this up in the Oxfam shop (again), but I think it looks like abook on needlework, or a notebook,or drawliners, or writing paper. I started reading EM Delafield’s The Diary of a Provincial Lady online at Project Gutenberg Australia, which has all kinds of books unavailable on the British site, but they can’t…

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  July 5, 2012

  book cover, diary, EM Delafield, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Virago Modern Classics

• My Perfect Library

  A wall full of books. This morning I have been at the Oxfam bookshop, then I met some friends for tea and a chat, so I spent the afternoon relaxing with EM Delafield’s ‘The Diary of a Provincial Lady’ whilst eating home-made vegetable soup with cheese and wholemeal pitta bread (which I didn’t make, but…

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  July 4, 2012

  books, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, library books, Shugborough

• The Summer Reading Pile

  Well, Midsummer’s Day has been and gone, though the weather has been so dreadful if feels as if summer has never even arrived. June is over, and July is here. And even if the weather doesn’t improve, I can curl up on the sofa and tackle the TBR pile, which should last me well into…

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  July 2, 2012

  Ada Leverson, Canada, Dancing Penguin, EM Delafild, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Paris, Penguin Dust Jacket, Summer reading, TH White, To Be Read, Tove Jansson