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shona_reads_in_devon 's review for:
The Summer Book
by Tove Jansson
DID NOT FINISH
I'm feeling a bit emperor's new clothes about this one. What in earth is there to like?
I gave it 50 pages and skipped forward a bit to see if it was more of the same, and it was. Little vignettes of not much at all happening. Maybe in another world I'd have found it all introspective and deep but I can't be doing with too much naval gazing - and if my 6 yo was half as much of a brat as this one is, I'd have left him on the island and gone somewhere else.
I gave it 50 pages and skipped forward a bit to see if it was more of the same, and it was. Little vignettes of not much at all happening. Maybe in another world I'd have found it all introspective and deep but I can't be doing with too much naval gazing - and if my 6 yo was half as much of a brat as this one is, I'd have left him on the island and gone somewhere else.