By the Book-A Meant to Be Novel

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I feel I have been overusing the word wonderful lately but The Summer Book is just such a reading experience. The two or three hours you'll spend with this family as its members learn to grow, learn to let go, and simply earn their living won't be wasted.

Like that is our primary goal in life and once found, he should be her end-all-be-all until he's finished with her.

Jansson acknowledges the grandmother’s growing physical frailty but celebrates her rebellious spirit and her refusal to relinquish her sense of self or her independence. This was written 40 years ago but is really timeless in its story of a child's unrelenting thirst for knowledge and stubborn daily brawls with the world at large.

Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. The author brings out the biggest guns, and how can I not fall for this book, especially with its spicy chemistry, great characters, and amazing supporting friends of Derek, including the "Cheat Sheet" couple Nathan and Bree, making a cameo that fueled my excitement. She has recently lost her mother and her grandmother must answer her inquiries; she does so with wisdom and love. Perhaps in compensation, I love spy stories and space-war epics and historical novels with battles, explosions, near misses with the main character dangling from rooftops.They find their place in the island world by observing the minutest of lives there, knowing they're just another small element. Their states and existences are as fragile as of the moss, what we read is just the most delicate impression of that moss on the page. Tove Jansson, the world-renowned creator of the Moomintroll characters, succinctly harnesses the power and glory of a seaside summer season in the twenty-two elegant vignettes contained within The Summer Book. Everything is in here; the battles I won and lost, the chefs I learned from and the dishes that made Midsummer.