Happy weekend, y’all! My bro is coming to visit, and one of my besties is having a leaving do, so it’s a weekend of ups and downs… I’m hoping to get some reading in there, and have picked up something for Women in Translation Month. More on that below, with the link, book, and blog post.
1.) The link – is a fun profile with Nina Stibbe in the New York Times that was doing the rounds on Twitter recently. She talks about Persephone and Backlisted, so we like her. AND she talks about Lolly Willowes, though I would dispute that it is a book “nobody reads anymore”…
2.) The blog post – is Paula at Book Jotter and her plan to read more books by and about Tove Jansson. Jansson is one of my all-time faves, and the Women in Translation Month choice I’ve made is Tove Jansson: Work and Love by Tuula Karjalaninen. I’ve had it for a few years, and it’s now been long enough since I read Boel Westin’s biography of Jansson that I fancy reading another.
3.) The book – lots of us loved Shaun Bythell’s The Diary of a Bookseller – well, I’m really excited to read Confessions of a Bookseller. And a review copy arrived this week, hurrah!
Thank you so much for the mention, Simon. I hope you enjoy ‘Jansson: Work and Love’ by Tuula Karjalaninen – I look forward to reading your comments.
Thanks Paula! And sorry for the mindblank/typo on your name!
No worries! 😊
You;ve nudged me to get a copy of Diary of A Bookseller. Been meaning to do that for ages….
Enjoy your weekend
I need to read Tove Jansson. I have preordered the Bythell book. It is to be released here 29th August. I just read it is going to be made i to a tv series. I hope the Brits are making the series and not the Americans. I don’t watch much American tv. (Before anyone jumps on me I am American-Australian so feel entitled to say such things.) Enjoy your weekend. 🤠🐧
The biography of Tove Jansson is wonderful – it made me see the Moomins (and the relationship between Moominpappa and Moominmamma) in a different light, as well as filling in a lot of the blanks.
I loved Confessions of a Bookseller. The humour is fantastic and what’s not to like about a book about a book? ;)
Happy Reading!
That’s the previous one, but this one is great too!
I enjoyed Diary of a Bookseller very much. I’m a fan of snark. :-)