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My Second Tove Jansson and the Newest Murderbot

Platform Decay by Martha Wells

Fair Play by Tove Jansson

May 14, 2026 by Tracy Leave a Comment

Platform Decay by Martha Wells At this point, the Murderbot books are basically comfort reads. If you’ve read enough of them, you have a general idea of what’s going to happen and how things will end up, always accompanied by a healthy dose of snark and sarcasm from Murderbot. In this one, we start off with Murderbot tagging along with Three, another “rogue” SecUnit, at the start of a rescue mission. Said rescue mission goes awry pretty quickly, because this is a Murderbot book. At this point […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: martha wells, Murderbot Diaries, Tove Jannson, translated by Thomas Teal, Tove Jansson, translated fiction

Tracy's CBR18 Review No:32 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: martha wells, Murderbot Diaries, Tove Jannson, translated by Thomas Teal, Tove Jansson, translated fiction ·
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Lovely Relationship Between Grandmother and Granddaughter

The Summer Book by Tove Jannson, translated by Thomas Teal

April 15, 2026 by Tracy 2 Comments

This was a lovely little book that’s a quick read and also occasionally, and unexpectedly, made me laugh out loud. Translated from Finnish, it’s the story of young Sophia and her grandmother, told in vignette form. They spend their summers on one of the many Finnish islands. Sophia’s father is there in a limited way; the focus is on Sophia and her grandmother as they explore the island and talk to each other. There are also symbolic references to the death of Sophia’s mother, which […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Thomas Teal, Tove Jannson, translated by Thomas Teal, Tove Jansson, translated fiction

Tracy's CBR18 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Thomas Teal, Tove Jannson, translated by Thomas Teal, Tove Jansson, translated fiction ·
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Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair

Sun City by Tove Jansson

November 11, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

Veering far afield from her native Finland, Jansson (of Moomin fame) writes of the denizens of St. Petersburg, Florida, and its retirement community.  They live in retirement hotels, within walking distance of the piers and parks, not to mention the Bounty.  Built as a full-scale replica for the 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty, it served as a tourist attraction connected with the St. Petersburg Museum of History from the mid-60s through the mid-80s, and its masts are easily viewed from the porches and verandas […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History, Romance Tagged With: 1970s, 70s nostalgia like whoa, But then there is the Spring Ball, Jesus is coming any day now! Sure we'll let you know, Mutiny on the Bounty ship tourist attraction, St Petersburg FL retirement hotels, Tove Jansson

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:59 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: 1970s, 70s nostalgia like whoa, But then there is the Spring Ball, Jesus is coming any day now! Sure we'll let you know, Mutiny on the Bounty ship tourist attraction, St Petersburg FL retirement hotels, Tove Jansson ·
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Friendship

Fair Play by Tove Jansson

January 22, 2022 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

Best for: Those looking for a mix between short stories and a novel. In a nutshell: Jonna and Mari are artists and friends who are in their 70s and live at opposite ends of an apartment building on an island. Worth quoting: “She’s not shy; she just won’t bother trying to be pleasant. She thinks it’s artistic to be gloomy.” Why I chose it: My partner gave this to me as a gift, I think because it’s a novel about friendship, not romantic love, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Tove Jansson

ASKReviews's CBR14 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Tove Jansson ·
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The sky was almost black, but the snow shone a bright blue in the moonlight.

Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson

February 25, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Moomins! I’ve never actually read any of the Moomin books as far as I can tell, but it’s possible I did as a kid. I do know that that I’ve read several of Tove Jansson’s adult books including her collected stories. As an adult writer, she’s incredibly playful and funny and endearing, but like a lot of Scandinavian (and European writers) there’s a dark underbelly to a lot of the sensible kinds of joy her books are about. My favorite of these is The Summer Book […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction Tagged With: Moominland Midwinter, Tove Jansson

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:90 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction · Tags: Moominland Midwinter, Tove Jansson ·
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