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By the Book-A Meant to Be Novel

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This is the story of how I went from someone who no-one thought would amount to anything, to a chef with two Michelin stars and a business I am proud of. You’ll also learn how you can protect the planet and make a difference in your community – and so much more. The new growth, the budding of the flowers, and the arrival of the birds are just as distinct as the withering of the leaves or the ravages left behind by a storm at sea. I find this sort of writing – which has no real plot but is all about exploring characters – very hard to do and I am always lost in admiration when I see it done well. On the flip side, while Nora was such an outgoing and quirky character, she had fears and insecurities that she was working through.

DE Stevenson had an enormously successful writing career: between 1923 and 1970, four million copies of her books were sold in Britain and three million in the States. And if he couldn't get any sweeter, Nora taught him how to braid her hair back in college and he did it for her when she was sick 😍 His possessive moments were also a highlight for me. An island is one of the few places on earth where it is possible to create your own world, and Jansson manages to build a small universe where old and young, danger and beauty, real life and imagination coexist in perfect balance, feeding on each other’s experiences, making everything new yet cosily familiar at the same time to the astonished reader.Emma Smith’s biography begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years since. It moves to the gentle rhythm of a bobbing sea quietly breaking on shore as you read in the long grass beneath a sweltering sun. There is also a selection of what the author considers interesting aircraft visiting Blackbushe during its civilian tenure. The Summer Book is a book you want to begin again upon finishing and not because anything about summer is appealing in the middle of February.

It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events – the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves. McLaren is better placed than most to guide us round Bodnant's winding paths and unravel the many strands of its history. She grew up there and her family have lived at Bodnant since her three-times great grandfather Henry Davis Pochin bought the property in 1874. Grandmother, though always remaining true to her cranky self, understands, worries and mostly knows what to do to help Sophia.I think they looked at each other, and thought they looked awful, and then crawled away from each other as fast as they could. Tove Jansson wrote and illustrated her first Moomin book, The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945), during World War II. Tove Jansson, whose Moomintroll comic strip and books brought her international acclaim, lived for much of her life on an island like the one described in The Summer Book, and the work can be enjoyed as her closely observed journal of the sounds, sights, and feel of a summer spent in intimate contact with the natural world. It was perfect, actually, as this is a story about wildness, both the wildness of living on a small island in the Gulf of Finland and the wildness of living with fewer social conventions and conveniences.

A charming and enlightening account of the book that consolidated Shakespeare's posthumous reputation, and the book through which we understand and recognize Shakespeare. Nothing really progresses, yet nothing really has to because The Summer Book is a vacation from the stresses and hustle of life. This book is in danger of taking itself rather too seriously; there is a lot of home-spun philosophy but only rare flashes of humour, which nevertheless are very funny. Read if you like: grumpy x sunshine, second chance romances, learning disability rep, “that’s my wife,” it’s always been you, right person wrong time, and strong women.In the first chapter, Tove has written a book on the advice of her grandmother about Angleworms that have come apart. And that makes it a very pleasing book about the fairly different intellectual and emotional worlds of being old and being young, and the relationship between the two. This is a subtle little novel that immerses you into nature and reminds you that you are just a tiny dot in a vast universe. Now, at the ages of 55 and 23 respectively, their friendship proves how inconsequential age really is. Winters were spent in the family’s art-filled studio and summers in the fisherman’s cottage on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, a setting that would later figure in Jansson’s writing for adults and children.

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