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Wedding in Moominland

Stick it in the Moominfamily album 14th September 2024 Since it could be up to six weeks before our official photographs are ready, and I had promised to post pictures of our Moomin-themed wedding this week, here is but a small selection taken by friends and family on the day: Mrs & Mrs Bardell-Hedley Moominmamma welcomes our guests Moomintroll directs guests to the Moominlounge Moominpappa shows…

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Winding Up the Week #391

An end of week recap “Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” – Zora Neale Hurston There will be no wind up next Saturday because I’m getting married. Thank you so much everybody for your kind good wishes. I will see you on the other side (of the broom, that is). As ever, this is a post in…

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TOVE TROVE: Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson

My contribution to Moomin Week and the latest addition to the Tove Trove Library  “You can’t ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.” Tales from Moominvalley (or Det osynliga barnet och andra berättelser in its earliest Swedish-language form) is a short fiction collection from Tove Jansson’s original series of stories about a family of benevolent, philosophical trolls with downy fur…

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Winding Up the Week #388

An end of week recap “Literature speaks with everyone individually – it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a book, which expects nothing in return, other than that we think and feel.” – Herta Müller (born 17th August 1953) This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of…

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Winding Up the Week #384

An end of week recap “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.” – Vladimir Nabokov This is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related happenings. CHATTERBOOKS >>  If…