Tag: Sort of Books

• A Winter Landscape

  The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson is darker than either ‘The Summer Book’ or ‘A Winter Book’ (although ‘The Squirrel’, one of the short stories in the collection, is a little peculiar). But it is every bit as wonderful. With Jansson, little things mean a lot, and her writing is so deceptively simple it’s almost hypnotic,…

  chrisharding53

  October 26, 2012

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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…

  chrisharding53

  July 9, 2012

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