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  <title><![CDATA[The Summer Book]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Tove Jansson]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 08 15:56:42 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book to savour. It is about an artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter, spending summer days together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. I am lingering over each thought-provoking episode. I think it is a book that Laura would enjoy. She was a child who inhabited storyworlds, like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29000114">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You have to applaud simplicity in writing. It is the hardest thing for a writer to achieve. That sense of keeping the book â€˜smallâ€™ for lack of a better term, honing the story down to the barest strokes on the canvas. I always thought Hemingway did it beautifully with <em>The Old Man and the Sea</em>. <em>Win...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30296360">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a wonderful book- just about perfectly written.  I agree that simplicity in writing is difficult to achieve and Jansson does this with great sensitivity. ]]></body>
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    <review id="27627800">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a near perfect little book for summer (or anytime of year) with beautiful short vignettes of island life, childhood and family. It was just the book I needed at this time in my life--sweet without being saccharine, meditative without being forced. <br/><br/>On a personal note, it recalled ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27627800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74578778">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 14 20:10:57 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 14 20:17:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This exceptional little book revolves around a precocious young girl and her contentious, wild, beautiful relationship with her cantankerous grandmother, who lives by herself on an island. We find out immediately that the young girl's mother has died, and her father, frozen in a state of trauma and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74578778">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56654509">
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  <read_at>Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri May 22 17:53:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quiet stunner, this book. A sweet, subtle, beautifully written story about life on an island in the Gulf of Finland. It defies categories, which is part of its greatness: not quite a novel, not quite a story collection. On the surface it's about the relationship between a girl and her grandmother,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56654509">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30643114">
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    <body><![CDATA[This perfect book reminded me of the long hot internetless summers of my childhood in the country.  I wish I had had a wise grandmother there with me to fight with and learn from.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Summer Book is a collection of sweet vignettes about childhood (and old age) on an island far off the coast of Finland. While the characters are consistent throughout, there's no real plot to speak of - the name of the book is perfectly apt in that it really is just about the slow, hazy days of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42517740">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 03 10:33:22 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend gave me this lovely book and it's the kind of book I don't want to finish--so I'm reading it very slowly.  It's mostly descriptive, but it does have a background--a six year old girl is spending the summer with her grandmother because her mother has just died.  They are on an island in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51382933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38114486">
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[With a title like &quot;The Summer Book,&quot; I expected this little novel to be full of sunshine and a carefree attitude.  While the characters certainly seemed to have few obligations, this book actually had a very melancholy tone.  Sophia, a 6-year-old girl, her grandmother, and her Papa are all...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38114486">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62305628">
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 06 14:52:10 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I knew nothing of this book or author when a good friend handed it to me. And what an odd and lovely surprise it turned out to be. This truly transported me to another worldâ€”a strange and foreign land of the sea where things are as they always have been, yet are ever-changing, ever-fleeting. Youth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62305628">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A meditative and wise book, that is also dark and funny.  <br/><br/>A young girl is growing as her grandmother is dying, and we discover them and their island as they discover themselves.<br/><br/>It reminded me of a film I saw many years ago - Under Solen (Under the Sun) by Colin Nuttal (I thin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68733872">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book consists of short chapters that can be read independently from one another, and all of them are about a young girl and her grandmother (and sometimes her father) and their summmer(s) on a small island in the Baltic Sea outside Finland. I really enjoyed this book, which had a lovely, simple...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53228721">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Centered around the lives of a grandmother and her 6-year-old granddaughter Sophia, this series of chapters about summer on an island is sparsely beautiful and evocative and funny.  Everything in the book feels honest and true to life, whether it's the irrational behavior of a six-year-old who think...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64386805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66000792">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me heartsick for Finland.  The night after I finished it I dreamt about Finland, and woke up exhausted because while sleeping I was trying to dream in finnish and I couldn't remember a lot of the words.  Oddly enough, when I woke, one word that had been driving me nuts all night immed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66000792">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36265376">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Those who have lost a mother, close relationship with a grandmother, mother of a little girl]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[LOVE this book. Great little vignettes. Simple and touching, great insights as well. <br/><br/>Little girl exploring and growing, with her grandmother on an island in the summer;  Loved the review that said it so well &quot;without reducing either character to the expected nurturing/needy tropes.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36265376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had never heard of Tove Jansson before, but my research told me that she is the author/illustrator of a very famous children's character in Sweden &amp; Norway.<br/><br/>The book reads almost like a series of vignettes - focused on a girl and her grandmother who live on an island of the coast of Swe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63498800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a lovely collection of short stories that when put to together make up the summer book::stories about the time spent on her families holiday island with her grandma::and other childhood memories::the book is written in the stlye of a novel but is in large (so i am led to believe)auto/biographical:: ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59928550">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book before and after my recent trip to Scandinavia.  I oscillated a bit on the stars, clicking first three, then four, back again, and settling at, 4.  Certain chapters certainly deserved five stars, and others two.  Tove Jansson manages to capture the quirky relationship that develops ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29259738">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Young Sophia and her grandmother spend long summers on an island in the Bay of Finland.  Intelligent, insightful, and still a light and pleasant read.  I appreciate a book that makes me smile and laugh, yet doesn't hesitate to take on real life issues like aging, relationships, the value of art, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78215111">more...</a>]]></body>
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