The Summer Book | 
pickA book about summer vacation and spending time with family. We meet Sophia and her grandmother, and are told about the cat and the storm and other things happening when you spend the summer on an island. This book is super cute and made me nostalgic about my own childhood summers.
Next up.
I fell for this edition of the book with the pink cover and grey pages.
1. Some warm weather, hopefully, although being in England, it‘s not guaranteed!
2. I‘ve not heard of anything that‘s made me go “I absolutely must get that immediately” yet.
3. Strawberries
4. 35°C apparently
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pickMore from my Facebook project: Tove Jansson's The Summer Book might reasonably be called a book in which nothing much happens, but what does is everything. Six year old Sophia and her grandmother spend their summer ambling around an island in the Gulf of Finland, talking about life, the universe, and everything. It's a warm, peaceful, affectionate book about love and life, and I'm so grateful to the friend who gave me a copy many years ago.
#YouNeverCanTell how many books I‘ll end up buying when attending library events.
Last Friday I went to a talk about the German TV series Babylon Berlin. Off course I bought the first to books in the series and the last book in Cusk‘s trilogy.
Today, I went To hear about a new photography book. I didn‘t buy that, but the top to books.
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This was a book started last week and I finally finished today. It‘s short, loosely intertwined short stories of summer on a isolated Finnish Island. The book explores the relationship between a wonderful grandmother and her six year old granddaughter. It explores a more carefree time with lovely language. Not what I expected, but still a lovely little book.
Thanks for the tag @Tex2Flo 😘
Greek Islands, my favorite place on earth
Feta, cucumber, watermelon salad
Bike rides at the ocean, morning swims
Frose!
Waterproof sun screen
My patio, lake view, with the fans on full blast....
If you want to play, consider yourself tagged!
pick5⭐️ I was not close to my Grandma, so it‘s very heartwarming to get the feel of Sophia‘s interaction with her grandmother. The story is compact; but it covers everything about nature, life, death, and human emotions.
“There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end.”
Next read ☀️
Is it too ambitious to bring all of these beauties with me to Bali for the Easter weekend? 😆🙈 I have a serious problem!
so-soA wisp of a book, "The Summer Book" is brief with no real plot but it's well written. For me these snippets of life in the summer on a Scandinavian island were enjoyable but nothing I'll be raving about - it's 3 stars from me.
My full review is up on my blog now ?
I can open my present from the cozy little opcit bookstore in Taos, NM tomorrow. This will be my first book by Tove Jansson
Happy Holidays and Happy Reading everyone!
I initially thought I only had one 5⭐️ read this year, but thankfully I was wrong! 😅😅
Well this was just beautiful! I was going to read it and pass it along, but it‘s very definitely staying on my shelves for a while.
Following the loss of her mother, a young girl spends her time on an island in the gulf of Finland, with her father and grandmother. Grandmother is wise, funny, acerbic and their relationship is a joy. Gorgeous!
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@RachelO reminded me of this sweet book in one of her post earlier today, and it is absolutely worthy of being today‘s choice for #adventrecommends. But maybe save it for a lazy summer day ☀️
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PRIVATE PROPERTY - NO TRESPASSING
“We‘ll go ashore,” Grandmother said. She was very angry. Sophia looked frightened. “There‘s a big difference,” her grandmother explained. “No well-bred person goes ashore on someone else‘s island when there‘s no one home. But if they put up a sign then you do it anyway, because it‘s a slap in the face”
“Naturally,” Sophia said, increasing her knowledge of life considerably. They tied up to the sign.
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I‘ve been on a real used book buying bender. And because Michigan is staring down 5 months of cold winter I couldn‘t resist a summer book. I‘ve also heard great things about this one, Jansson is beloved for her Moomin books and I can‘t wait to get a chance to crack this one.
pick#JuneItsElectrifying Day 12: Tove Jansson‘s thin novel is perfect for #SummerLovin. As Iphigene, one of the GatheringBooks ladies noted in her review:
Tove Jansson‘s The Summer Book is a product of her granddaughter‘s own loss, of her own relationship with her mother, and of her life in an island in the Swedish speaking part of Finland. The language is succinct and direct. It is unsentimental, but warm and loving. Link to full review below ⬇️
pickTitle says it all - a perfect, slow, summer book. I loved the structure of the separate stories. The narrator seemed so distant and wise, and everything was so sparse and rich in meaning. Perfect book to read slowly on a long summer night.
“It‘s funny about love,” Sophia said. “The more you love someone, the less he likes you back.”
“That‘s very true,” grandmother observed. “And so what do you do?”
“You go on loving,” said Sophia threateningly. “You love harder and harder. “
Her grandmother sighed and said nothing.
Thank you @Tove_Reads for my #keychainswap package! I was also going to send a book with an author of my name too! But i didn't know if it would be a book you would read.
So i am interested in my experience with this book. The keychains are a great addition to my keychain collection.
I am familiar with that character, on everything. And the bookmark is so fun!!
I didn't realize how similar my state and your country can be XD
Thank you ever so much @Tove_Reads I loved everything in your package! Can‘t wait to start the book and the keychain are adorable as is everything else ❤️ #keychainswap @JenlovesJT47
pickIt's a long time since I sat down with a book and read it from cover-to-cover, but (apart from a necessary overnight sleep) that's what I did withThe Summer Book.
It's a book of small incidents and and close intimacies between a young girl, Sophia, and her grandmother, who spend their summer months together on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland. 👇
Thank you so much @Tove_Reads for this package!!! Ok, so I had to look up what a #Moomin was but I love this! The characters on the teas are so adorable and I can't wait to try them (Litsy is going to convert me to tea...I can see it 😂). The bookmarks are amazing, anything with a #Moose is great for me. I'm super excited to check out this book and that HP necklace is just awesome! Thanks again!!! #bookmail
pick5💙 There is nothing I‘m going to be able to add to what has already been said about Tove‘s evocative writing. This book feels less like a novel than a living time capsule.
I‘m ordering Tove‘s short story collections ASAP!
As lovely a start as I expected. 💙
I have a HUGE number of books about rain on my shelves. And very few about #sunshine. Have lived in Devon way too long!
So I'm sharing this one with @arlenefinnigan , who totally beat me to it today! #TeamJansson! #MarchIntoOz @Cinfhen @Lizpixie
pick4/5 star. This book is so so beautiful and so simple. It embodies the joy of nature and love and the relationship between grandparent and grandchild. It shows the child in the heart of an old lady and the maturity in a small child. I enjoyed every second. Such a light and sweet read for when you‘re feeling down. #tovejansson #prettybook #bibliophile #bookish #booklover #bookblogger #bookworm #bookreviewer
I‘m halfway through this tiny book because I was so tired last night but I hope to finish it today. It‘s not got a very big plot, there‘s not really any story to follow - it‘s a very character driven book rather than a plot driven one. It‘s the kind of book I wouldn‘t usually enjoy, I‘m all for a deep and well planned plot line but it‘s light and sweet and enjoyable enough for a quick pick me up read. #prettybook #bookish #booklover #bibliophile
Oh my goodness.. what a horrible all out hell today has been. I really just want to submerge in a world bath bubbles with my book and never speak to another human being again. It‘s times like these I wish myself and my daughter could whisk away to Narnia or Africa or anywhere so long as it‘s miles away. These images make me smile at least. #prettybook #beautifulbook #tovejansson #bookworm #bibliophile #bookish #books #bookmark #bookblogger
My next read is a short and sweet one, The Summer Book by Tove Jansson. Jansson is one of my favourite authors and I am so pleased to finally have the chance to read this Scandinavian classic! 💛💛 #prettybook #prettycover #bookreviewer #bookblogger #bookish #bibliophile #beautifulbook #tovejansson
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Finland turns 100 years next week! My library has a challenge for all of you: read a blue and white book 📖🇫🇮
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I interpret #🏝📚 as books set on an island. Here are four I have read. Loved The Guernsey and the Agatha Christie. Read an abridged version of the two classics when I was young. The tagged book I wish to read.
Jansson's writing, which alternates deftly between dry humor and poignant regret, always enchants me.
I'm putting an end to my #20booksofsummer challenge because there's no way I can read 8 books by the 10th September! I've also swapped The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra for Outlander, as that book is going to arrive later this year for #whodunituk.
panLeider hat mich das Buch nicht überzeugt. Es hat zwar eine schöne Sprache und kann einem das skandinavische Leben näher bringen, doch ist es mehr eine Erzählung von aneinander gereihten Erlebnissen, als eine Geschichte.
Zudem spielt es nicht wie erwartet nur im Sommer.
Nicht wirklich vergleichbar mit den #Mumins.
Just 1 part of Tove Jansson's fresco Party in the City on exhibit at the Helsinki Art Museum. Beautiful! Tove painted herself with the cigarette.
A warm, humoristic and slighlty melancolic tale about Sophia and her grandmother and their life on an island. One of my #favoritebooks 💜
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Here are my reading stats for July. More books read than last month, and lots of good ones, but not too many really great ones.Tagged is one that I forgot to mention in my graphic but was a wonderful, quiet little gem that I book-darted like crazy and am glad I own so that I can reread another summer. It's been a fun month of reading...
pickLove Moomin but h️ave never read Jansson's adult books. Glad I squeezed this in for the #JanssonBuddyRead. It's a deceptively simple book, but deep, wise & idiosyncratic. The formal structure of the book mimics nature's time, & it takes you out of urban, automated work-time. Reading it is like a gift that helps to refocus the mind, showing us how to pay attention & to live with others without false hope or cynicism. Bittersweet, tender, & moving.
