By the Book-A Meant to Be Novel

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I also think books are great to gift loved ones, this one in particular I would highly recommend for your creative circle. She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. As 2023 is drawing to a close it’s time for me to recap my year of reading and select my top ten books of 2023. Although known first and foremost as an author, Tove Jansson considered her careers as author and painter to be of equal importance. With authors and illustrators from all walks of life - diversity is the driving ethos within this publisher.

While reading this sweet story of a grandmother and grandchild sharing their summer on a Finnish island, I kept thinking of them as opposite ends of a spectrum and yet as alike as two newly-minted pennies. One summer (or what felt like a series of summers, perhaps), little Sophia and Grandmother rely on one another and learn from each other in this beautifully written novel. Jimmy may be homeless after the Apocalypse, but he holds the appeal of the original Adam, and how's about that beachfront property? Sophia though is younger than Lea, we hear the voice of a child of between five and seven I guess; crawling, exploring and asking questions.

It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events – the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves. He's forever heartbroken after his college sweetheart broke his heart right after he was drafted to the NFL. Jansson doesn’t force meaning or preach morality, she simply selects sublime moments of human interaction and lets them point towards something far greater.

Let's delve into the plot: enter Nora Mackenzie, an aspiring young agent climbing the steps of the corporate ladder in a men's world against chauvinism and condescending attitudes. Perhaps part of the attraction is that in DE Stevenson’s novels these rules comfortingly still apply. Tove Jansson’s series of children’s books — about the Moomintroll and Moomin family —(books Jansson became famous for)….Grandmothers are, after all, like fairy Godmothers, they can beat bad luck, superstition and even death; everything fits in their pockets because they fight back with the invincible weapons of wisdom, patience and unreserved love.