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Moominland Midwinter
Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton (translator)
Moominland Midwinter Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton (translator) This children's story is one of a series of books about the Moomins that blend magic, humour and adventure in the setting of the small, but ever-changing Moominvalley.
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Date : Published February 24th 1994 by A & C Black (first published 1957) ISBN : 9780713639803 Author : Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton (translator) Format : Paperback 168 pages Genre : Fantasy, Childrens, Fiction, European Literature, Finnish Literature, Classics
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Marika Oksa says
Luin kirjan uudelleen joulun aikaan. Ihana ja lumoava Taikatalvi <3.
Camilla says
Book #5 in #CramaThon2015.
I didn't DNF this the first time I tried reading it because I didn't like it, but more because I wasn't in the mood for it at the time. Glad I picked it up again during CramaThon, because I really enjoyed it!
(Finish a book you DNF'ed.)
Bert says
I want some warm syrup now..
Kate says
I love all the Moomin books, but this one especially. It's a small existentialist masterpiece. Who but Tove Jansson can blend menace and whimsy in such a winning way? I'm plotting an omnibus review of the whole series when I've finished rereading them all (two more books to go after this one).
Tiina says
Tästä tuli oma lemppari muumikirjojen joukossa. Esi-isä <3
Liesa says
Irgendwie war der Dezember kein so schöner Monat. Nicht, dass mir etwas wirklich schlimmes passiert wäre, aber ich war die ganze Zeit genervt und gestresst und etwas unglücklich. Trost suchte ich bei den Mumins und wurde mit "Winter im Mumintal" direkt etwas aufgemuntert. Wie Mumin den Winter, den er normalerweise ja sonst verschläft, erlebt fand ich wunderbar, gerade, dass er so grantig war und nichts mit dem Schnee anzufangen wusste. Und Too-Ticki ist neuerdings eh eine meiner liebsten Muminfiguren, weil sie so ruhig und empathisch und friedlich ist. Ganz im Gegensatz zu Klein Mü, die unbedingt aus dem buschigen Schwanz eines toten Eichhörnchens einen Muff nähen will, damit sie nicht mehr so friert. Ach, ich liebe die Mumins einfach.
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Felicia says
Alltså wow. Hur fantastiskt var inte detta? Förstår verkligen inte hur jag har klarat mig i 21 år utan att ha läst Mumin. Men nu är min första muminbok avklarad och jag längtar sannerligen efter att få läsa fler. Boken är skriven med ett så vackert språk och karaktärerna är helt underbara. Tove Jansson beskriver naturen på ett så poetiskt men ändå äkta sätt att jag tror att det är jag, och inte Mumintrollet, som upplever vintern för första gången. Den här boken fick mig att må så bra. Åh.
Emma Sea says
There's a fab essay by Maria Popova on this book on Brain Pickings today, encompassing "the paradox of active surrender." Highly recommended.
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Found my childhood copy of this while cleaning out an old box last night, and to my delight I enjoyed it just as much as a grown up. My favourite of all the moomin books, because of the haunting quietness. On my must-read list for all children.
Hanna says
Suosikkini Muumi-kirjoista <3
Krist?ne says
Absol?ta saj?sma!! T?ds m?l?gs dz?ves gudr?bu kr?jums. Melanholi?a b?bel?te.
Mira says
All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.
Had the urge to reread this because it kept popping up to my bookstagram feed, so thanks, guys. It was even better than I remembered, and a perfect December read. notgettingenough says
This book has the best footnotes.
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A displaced hedgehog is a hedgehog that has been removed from its home against its will and not even had time to pack its toothbrush.
And a bit later on, when we are so sad because squirrel is dead, the most comforting footnote I've ever read:
In case the reader feels like having a cry, please take a quick look at p. 126.
Ann-Kristine says
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Sinistra says
Someone bought me this book from a second-hand store when I was a kid. I can't remember who. I had never heard of the Moomin world before that, and for more than a decade no one else I knew ever indicated a knowledge of it. I saw a Little My button on a girl's backpack in High School and pointed it out and she went nuts with joy that someone had recognised it. Moominland was a secret world known by so few. Now the books are easier to find I IMPLORE you to buy them.
I swear this book changed me in a fundamental way.
It's solemn, and cold, and lonely. Sometimes it made me sad, just because of its solemnity. It's very different to anything else I've ever read, perhaps because it's Finnish. It has an extraordinary tone to it. But it's beautiful. Like new-fallen snow is it beautiful. Before this book I had only a very vague awareness that there were places in the world where the sun did not rise in winter. It challenged my early gender preconceptions (I thought myself a bit of a Tomboy but nevertheless Too-Ticky confused me).
By this for your small children and show them a new way of seeing the world. Also steal it from them when they're done, and read it yourself.
Matthew Hunter says
"There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep — then they appear." — Too-Ticky, Moominland Midwinter
In Moominworld, misfits come out during the bleakest, coldest time of year while others hibernate.
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Moomintroll usually hibernates alongside his people, but he wakes up early this particular winter and endures a lonely existence, separated from his loving family and friends by the boundary of deep, extended sleep. He ends up surrounded by unique characters. A philosophical being named Too-Ticky lives in the Moomin’s bathing-house during the winter season. A squirrel in love with its own tail charms the other misfits in snow-covered Moominvalley. Invisible shrews run about and serve meals to guests. A happy-go- lucky Hemulen (!) blares his horn and skis like a fiend. Little My, Moomintroll's only awake companion from the sunny times of year, embraces the cold by turning Moominmamma's tea cosy into a jacket, an egg cosy into a muff, a silver tray into a sled, and Moomintroll's sun tent into a sail.
While Little My's taking chances and having ornery fun, Moomintroll's moping about and longing for summer. He gives vent to his misery by making up and bellowing a song about how much he despises winter. Moomintroll loosens up as the story progresses, admitting grudgingly that there are times where it's best “if things aren’t so easy.” Moomintroll's misery stands in stark contrast to his relatively chipper mood and risk-taking ways in the other books in the series.
Overall, Jansson brings a much darker tone to Moominland Midwinter. The changed tone didn't do anything to change our opinion of Jansson's work. Five huge stars.
Eddie Watkins says
The human world is a huge mess that somehow survives the day. I don’t know how it happens, and I’m not sure that all our (un)concerted efforts to help it survive don’t just further complicate things and make that daily survival less and less possible. My attitude in these matters is generally that of a cynical Taoist – a profound faith in things as they are functioning “perfectly” in enormous rhythms of time wedded to an understanding that most humans only make things worse. If pressed my explanation would be that collectively we see a new day every day due to an inherent survival mechanism of such incredible complexity that even our brightest brains can’t understand it. If pressed I would also add that this survival mechanism is beyond the reach of our brains, which itself is part of that very survival mechanism, as our brains would invariably muck it up irreparably if given access.
Brains muck up enough already, and what they can’t muck up they often try to ruin for everyone. Even our very own brains try to muck up our very own lives. For instance, some brains are wont to tell their soul/body vessels that in the face of such muckity-mucked-up global complexity to seek solace or refuge or even wisdom in the simple is irresponsible; that complexity must be confronted with complexity; that it is our duty as primates on the intellectual pinnacle to figure out every last detail of our infinitely long queue of problems, and to come up with solutions, before we can enjoy the simplicity of our gods-given natures; that we need to read complicated adult books rather than so-called children’s books as a means of understanding our conditions. Just as I don’t know how we survive, I don’t know why we continue to operate under the directive of seriously flawed adult logic and over-educated instruction manuals when the clear-eyed (& anarchic) wisdom of childhood (& even old age) is intuitively the better course. Children and the elderly aren’t in the game, and they’re the wiser for it, though of course there are exceptions - demonic kids and avaricious old folks.
Which brings me to Mooninvalley, where I now live. I feel lucky that I can read these books for the first time as an adult. Sure, it would be nice to have read these as a youngster so that as they were directly affecting (& effecting) my development they were planting themselves in my being’s very marrow; but to read them as an adult is potentially even more affecting as there are so many mental/emotional rigidities to overcome, so
PDF File: Moominland Midwinter... 6 Read and Download Ebook Moominland Midwinter... much intellectual scar tissue to flex out, and so many more grey clouds and mucky accretions to pierce in order to see the Sun as if on the first day of creation. Which is not to say that Tove Jansson aspirations are so lofty, as from what I can tell her main intentions were to entertain and delight while embodying her philosophy of natural magic, clear-sighted pragmatism, anarchic creativity, and self-sufficiency through the simple complex of her cast of wildly diverse characters.
Life in Moominvalley is simple, though complicated enough to engender stories worth telling, and though it’s a remote utopia of sorts it’s essence is capable of resonating within the hearts and minds of those people still receptive to a wisdom that can be both simple and true. And just as I don’t really care to know how we as a species continue to survive, I don’t really care to over-discuss my life in Moominvalley. I prefer to just live it. And I should stop talking before anyone mistakes me for Garrison Keillor.
Abby Monk says
This was a book that was gifted to me for my birthday after I said I hadn't read any of the Moomin series, I got a fantastic looking hardcover edition and thoroughly enjoyed reading it on the train. A quick read, I felt that even though I hadn't read any of the other books in the series, I was still able to follow the characters. Also added a touch of frost to a very very warm day. Great read.
Stephen Curran says
'"When one's dead, then one's dead," said Too-Ticky kindly. "This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on there'll grow trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so sad?" "Perhaps not," said Moomintroll.'
Granted, I've only just finished reading it, but this might just be my favourite book. Towards the end, when Moomintroll's long and lonely ordeal is finally over, someone suggests that he should put a glass over a budding crocus to protect it overnight. No, he says: "Let it fight it out. I believe it's going to do still better if things aren't so easy."
These are stories to live by.
Nate D says
Cynical comfort reading. Jansson's stories won't warm the depths of mid-winter, but may encourage you to accept that the frozen snowy dark is temporary and not entirely meritless if one remains open to its potential. People also. Most of them are irritating in some way or another, but it'll be okay. They're probably also well- meaning in some way.
Bjorn says
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Outside, the cold went up against the night and the moonlight shone through all the green and red windowpanes. Tell me about snow, said Moomintroll and sat down in his father's sun-bleached garden chair. I don't understand it. Neither do I, said Too-Ticky. You think it's cold, but if you build a house from it it's warm. You think it's white, but sometimes it's pink, and sometimes blue. It can be the softest thing of all and it can be harder than stone. Nothing is certain.
In which Moomintroll wakes up to what looks like a dead, cold winter world, and gradually discovers so much about it. One of the best things written about winter and growing up, and, knowing that Too-Ticky is based on Jansson's girlfriend, quite a sweet understated love story as well.
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