Biblio Romans: Le Livre D'Un Ete (Paperback)

from kvanuska

Are the best books the simplest one? Lately those seem the books that are striking all the right chords with me. The Summer Book is not filled with any obvious mysteries or dramas, and there are only three characters that matter -- a six-year old girl named Sophia, her grandmother, and the tiny i...

from Cecilturtle

I absolutely loved this series of vignettes about life on a remote island. With a vegetation and solitude reminiscent of Canadian cottages, it conjured all sorts of my own summers around the lakes of Ontario. The friendship between Grandmother and granddaughter is delightful, each looking after t...

from Jannes

The kind of book that awakes a vague yearning within you. A love letter to the finnish arcipelago, yes, but also to that strange sense of friendship and understanding that sometime transcends age and generational gaps. ou think it would be sentimental, this story about childhood and summer and ag...

from danlai

I really didn't want this book to end, and that is probably the best thing I could say in a review, right? Might as well end this review here! Spoilers, maybe. It might just be best to read this book blind and let the events develop as gracefully as they do in the book. But for those who want som...

from coppers

A charming little book! The main action in The Summer Book happens before the start of the story and is mentioned just once and described in a single sentence on page 9. "Sophia woke up and remembered that they had come back to the island and that she had a bed to herself because her mother was d...