An end of week recap

“The world is full of great and wonderful things for those who are ready for them .”
– Tove Jansson (Moominpappa at Sea, 1965)

There seems to be little stirring in bookish circles this weekend, however, today brings Indian Independence Day, World Honey Bee Day and, in Canada, National Acadian Day. Tomorrow the USA marks National Independent Worker Day, while we Brits indulge in Afternoon Tea Week until 16^th August. Most importantly, of course, here at Book Jotter we remain in the thick of Tove Jansson & Moomin Month – and will continue to honour them (more even than usual) until the end of August. 🎩👜

Literary types born on this day include Scottish novelist, poet and historian Walter Scott (1771), English writer and literary critic Thomas Dequincey (1785), English writer and poet E. Nesbit (1858), American author and playwright Edna Ferber (1885), American chef, author and TV personality Julia Child (1912), Iraqi-Israeli author Sami Michael (1926) and Swedish writer Stieg Larsson (1954). 🍹 Please raise a glass on Sunday for English novelist and philosopher Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679), Franco-Uruguayan poet Jules Laforgue (1860), Luxembourgish-American sci-fi editor and magazine publisher Hugo Gernsback (1884), American Harlem Renaissance writer Wallace Thurman (1902), English novelist and short-story writer Georgette Heyer (1902), German-American poet and writer Charles Bukowski (1920), Azerbaijani poet Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh (1925), English author of espionage thrillers Anthony Price (1928), British SFF novelist, poet and short story writer Diana Wynne Jones (1934) and Mexican-American author Valeria Luiselli (1983).

As ever, this is a post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on the TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming publications, see what folk have on their nightstands and keep readers abreast of various book-related opinions and happenings.

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* A Tovian Day, Fair and Fine *

I return to the Finnish archipelago for Tove & Moomin Month with the latest addition to my Tove Trove library – a reading of The Summer Book, Jansson’s portrait of a grandmother, a granddaughter and the small island where they spend a single summer. >> Read: High Summer, Low Tides >> 

Please don’t forget there is now a dedicated index page for everything Tove, making it easier to find all the relevant posts. You can access it from the main menu at the top of every Book Jotter page. >> Tove Trove Main Index >>. Plenty more will be happening with this over the coming months. 🎩👜

* Lit Crit Blogflash * 

This is where I share my favourite pieces of writing from around the blogosphere. There are a great many talented people producing high‑quality book features and reviews, which makes it all the more difficult to pick only this one – posted in recent weeks:

Waiting for translation: Tove and the world’s children: A self‑described “midwife of texts for academics and the arts”, Kate Sotejeff‑Wilson not only translates from Finnish, German and Polish, but she also edits in English and runs Ridge Writing Retreats in Finland’s lake district. Marking Tove Jansson’s recent birthday on the 9^th August (the 25^th anniversary of the writer‑artist’s death), she picked up Tuula Karjalainen’s new book, Tove Jansson ja maailman lapset [‘Dear Tove’], in which, she tells us, the author “fills out the story she started” in her biography Work and Love (translated by David McDuff). Here, Karjalainen “weaves together letters from children all over the world” in a volume brimming with “sketches and snippets from Tove’s replies, as well as illustrations from her book covers and the comic strips.” The letters, says Kate, “show that children’s concerns haven’t changed that much”, even if they now seek guidance from different sources. She hopes they “still identify with the characters in the same way”, reminding us that “Toffle/Nyyti isn’t the only one who needs comforting.” Although the book was published a year ago, “it hasn’t been translated yet”. Fingers crossed that it is. 🤞

The Margaret Atwood project: Before the handmaid – After a thoroughly frustrating “reading slump” earlier in the year, Lory Widmer Hess of Entering the Enchanted Castle turned to Margaret Atwood’s much‑discussed 2025 life story, Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts. Not only was she “grabbed” by this “hugely” enjoyable title, but she was inspired to go on an Atwoodian reading spree – one that rapidly morphed into a significant project encompassing many of her earliest (and later) works, along with some poetry and non‑fiction. This led Lory to Atwood’s 1972 Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature, which, in turn, “helped make sense of the works [she’d] just read” by throwing open “a window into the Canadian literature that influenced the author herself”. Freshly invigorated, she has continued her endeavour with renewed enthusiasm and now intends to “reread Atwood’s most influential works from this newfound perspective”. She would very much like others to reveal their thoughts about these and other Atwood matters. For instance, “what do you think of the theme of [Survival]?” Please read this engaging post and share your musings with Lory.

* Irresistible Items *

Umpteen fascinating articles appeared on my bookdar last week. I often make a point of tweeting/x-ing (not to mention tooting and bsky-ing) a few favourite finds (or adding them to my Facebook group page), but in case you missed anything on your literary rambles through cyberspace, here is a selection of interesting snippets:

If you would like to stay up to date with the latest Tove Jansson and Moomin news, views and happenings, please head over to Tove Telegraph. Don’t miss out on events happening near you! 🎩👜

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The New Sentinel: 🦅🐺 The Book of Beasts: A Modern Bestiary with an Ancient Heart – “Our connection with animals has shifted from deep reverence and fear to friendship and family bonds and back again.” Steeped in folklore, mythology, magic and religion, Elizabeth Sulis Kim’s The Book of Beasts: Reclaiming Animal Wisdom tells the story of our shapeshifting relationships with twelve emblematic creatures.

AnOther: 🎤🎩👜🎬 Inside the Island World That Inspired The Summer Book – Speaking to Laura Allsop, “Sophia Jansson – niece to beloved Moomins author Tove – recalls the lost summer idylls that helped shape her aunt’s bestselling book, now adapted into a film starring Glenn Close.”

The Lamp: 🦄 Hatred, Disgust, and Contempt – If you are planning to take part in Chris Lovegrove’s #Gulliver300th challenge (see WUTW #479 for last week’s announcement), you will likely enjoy reading Dominic Green’s piece about Gulliver’s Travels: The Cambridge Anniversary Edition (edited by David Womersley), a volume published in May complete with all the original illustrations and maps, the frontispiece portraits, annotations explaining textual details that might now seem obscure and additional documents and images to enhance contemporary understanding and enjoyment of this landmark forerunner of the modern novel.

A Reading Life: 🎤 Source Material: a conversation with Stacey Yu – “There is such vivid feeling, innocence and despair in [a] broken promise [made to a mother] that somehow all of the internet is losing their mind over a book about a girl and her boyfriend’s cat.” Petya K. Grady talks to the author of Kitten about “the broken promise that inspired her debut novel”.

The New York Times (via Archive Today): 🕵🔪 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century – Looking to “expand [its] 21^st-century literary canon”, The New York Times Book Review “sent ballots to writers of every kind of crime fiction, from legal thrillers to spy novels to cozy mysteries, as well as librarians, editors, critics and Bookstagrammers”, asking them to pick “the 10 best thrillers published since 2000”. Discover how “their ballots stack[ed] up.”

Emily’s Corner: 📖 The Companion-Text Method for Beginners – Following on from her immensely popular post last month titled Literary Theory for Beginners, Emily now examines “how to find good secondary sources and use them to our advantage while we read.”

Africa Is a Country: ⚽ The price of potential – According to Lucas Souza and Matthew Kirwin, “Joseph O’Neill’s new novel [Godwin] follows a Pittsburgh writer chasing a West African wonderkid. It’s also a story about who profits every time the world goes looking for the next Eusébio.”

Books in the Scullery: 🦁 Mr. Tumnus’ Bookshelf – Jem Bloomfield examines books in the cave belonging to Mr. Tumnus in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – paying special attention to titles on “faun folklore and cryptoanthropology”.

The Times (via Archive Today): Rereading: The Latin teacher, the artist and a very English affair – “The Sandcastle, Iris Murdoch’s 1957 novel, follows a fusty, middle-aged man who becomes a hopeless, lovelorn beau”, says Sam Corbett.

Words Without Borders: 🍽 Bread, Wildflowers, and Social Satire: Teresa Präauer’s Cooking in the Wrong Century – “From the opening pages of Cooking in the Wrong Century by Austrian novelist, playwright, and visual artist Teresa Präauer, both the scene and the table are set […]”. Critic Nina Renata Aron says that food is “a primary means of exploring class and social position” in this “social satire about entertaining in one’s forties”.

The Observer (via Archive Today): 🎩👜🎬 The Summer Book – this Tove Jansson adaptation is a masterclass in restraint – Two movie reviews: “A serene Glenn Close stars in this muted, moving story of a family emerging from grief on a wild Finnish island”. Read Chief Film Critic Wendy Ide’s positive critique of the new film adaption of Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book. Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian also gave it the thumbs-up in The Summer Book review – Glenn Close powers sweet-natured take on Tove Jansson’s grief classic.

The Conversation: 🦘🖌️ Friday essay: is there a great Australian graphic novel? – Comic-art makers and avid readers agree: if the great Australian graphic novel exists, what makes it great just might surprise you.

The Culture Dump: 📖 Early Modern Literature: a Reading List – Jacob Ridley explains what scholars mean by early modern literature and offers a reading list that “suggests seven routes into this turbulent era of European culture [via] three historical moments”.

El Mundo: 🦄 John Gwynne, the writer called to succeed Tolkien: “The true epic is to do good in everyday details” – “The British epic fantasy writer has created a work that reflects on the human essence: ‘Courage is not about being stronger than others, but about having the courage to stand up for what is right’”, he tells Andrés Seoane.

The Art Newspaper: 🎨👩‍🎨 The author of a new book on Lavinia Fontana’s erotic art reveals all – “The Italian scholar Enrico Maria dal Pozzolo tells us about new discoveries and why the Bolognese painter was an innovator in her field” in Lavinia Fontana: Erotic Paintings, reveals Gareth Harris.

The Kyiv Independent: 🪖 ‘Hemingway Knows Nothing’: Ukraine’s writers are redefining literature of war – “When war, loss, and unimaginable suffering become routine, a book can offer a kind of lifeline — especially one by a writer who has lived through such an ordeal and tried to make sense of it.” Kate Tsurkan on Artur Dron’s series of very personal essays reflecting on his time on the frontline of the Russo-Ukrainian war Hemingway Knows Nothing. “It is set to be released in Hanna Leliv’s English translation by Jantar Publishing” on 10^th September.

The Ink-Stained Desk: 🦄 Cosy Fantasy: Comfort and Community – After reading Australian novelist Anne Jones’ debut novel Theodora’s Teashop, closely followed by Sarah Beth Durst’s The Faraway Inn, it seemed only natural that Christine Maree Reid should examine Cosy Fantasy in her latest Genre Genealogy post.

Publishers Weekly: 💘🪖 Vintage Wants You to Reread Ian McEwan – “In time for the 25^th anniversary of Atonement, [Vintage] is reissuing the Booker Prize–winning author’s oeuvre with fresh cover designs. McEwan says he’s eager for readers old and new to rediscover his philosophically charged novels”, says Sam Spratford.

The British Columbia Review: 🍁 A Newfoundland girl – Canadian writer, critic and cultural biographer Sandra Djwa’s “story about her family is one of many anecdotes she recounts in Ground to Stand On: A Canadian Literary Life. Growing up she finds that her young life is being shaped by social and economic forces beyond her control and the geography and landscape of Newfoundland. The book is part family memoir and part a recollection of her extraordinary career in academia”, says Bill Paul.

RedKalion: 🎩👜🎨 Tove Jansson Rediscovered: Beyond the Moomins to a Legacy of Artistic Depth – We look back at an interesting piece from March about the Tove Jansson Rediscovered movement – a group of “art historians, collectors, and enthusiasts who are looking beyond her literary fame to uncover the full breadth of her artistic genius.” Seemingly, Tove’s “work beyond her famous Moomin creations” is being reassessed by a new generation of admirers.

Biblioklept: 🛸🦄 Riff on rereading Gene Wolfe’s postmodern American Gothic ghost novel Peace – Edwin Turner “read Gene Wolfe’s 1975 novel Peace a few weeks ago and then obsessively reread it.” He subsequently declared it “an American post-modernist classic that we would now talk about alongside novels of writers like Pynchon, Barth, Reed, Coover, Barthelme, etc., if the Publishing Industry and Academia didn’t have hangups about sci-fi and fantasy.”

The Washington Independent Review of Books: ✍️ The Biographer’s Quest – “An author reflects on his decades spent chronicling others’ lives.” Kitty Kelley reviews The Biographer’s Quest, in which Jeffrey Meyers gets to the nitty-gritty of how biographies are written.

The History Press: 🧜‍♀️🦄 Sabrina and the Three Sisters – “Folk tales flow around the world like rivers, spilling over into imprints where history has left its mark; where cultures have been uprooted, seabeds scoured and villages drowned (but never forgotten).” This folk story set in Wales is taken from Peter Stevenson’s newly published fantasy collection Water Folk Tales: Mermaids, Selkies and Swan Girls.

The Metropolitan Review: Revolutionary Blues – The British novelist and journalist Hari Kunzru “is a polymath who brings deep cultural and political knowledge into play in his well-crafted and poignant novels.” Having read pretty much everything he has written, Brendon O’Connor examines his back catalogue from The Impressionist to Blue Ruin.

The Bulwark: 📖 The Death of Reading Has Been Greatly Exaggerated – “Reading is good. Reading more would be better. But literate societies can be susceptible to illiberalism”, says Cathy Young.

Vanity Fair: 🎬🦄🪄 A Hit Author’s Film Adaptation Went Horribly Wrong. What Happened on the Set of Children of Blood and Bone? – Tomi Adeyemi’s film deal was an author’s dream. So how did the adaptation of her bestselling novel [Children of Blood and Bone] turn into what she calls “the worst thing I have ever had to live through”?

The New York Review (via Archive Today): Out of the Rubble – “In novels written immediately after World War II, Wolfgang Koeppen mined the conscience of Germany.” Deborah Eisenberg looks back at the “eccentric in just about every way” trilogy by a novelist who became one of the best‑known German authors of the postwar period. These books – Pigeons on the Grass, The Hothouse, and Death in Rome (all translated by Michael Hofmann) – ask the question, “Does something in our nature compel us to repeatedly bring hell upon ourselves?”

The Middle Shelf: 🪖 Song For Another Home – In her brief review, Lee says she was “incredibly moved” by Song for Another Home, a novel based “loosely […] on Bora Lee Reed’s family’s history”, which “beautifully weaves together […] two narratives […] to tell the devastating story of a war torn country and its survivors”, set during the 1950–1953 conflict between North and South Korea. You can read a more in-depth piece about this book by Romzanul Islam at Probinism: Song for Another Home by Bora Lee Reed: A Poignant Saga of Family and War, in which he describes it as “an important, moving, and beautifully crafted novel that deserves a place on every historical fiction lover’s shelf.”

The New York Times (via Archive Today): Ursula Hegi, Who Wrote Searing Novels About Nazi-Era Germany, Dies at 80 – Ursula Hegi, “a novelist who drew on her childhood in post-World War II Germany” to write the historical novel Stones From the River, “her best-known work and an early Oprah’s Book Club selection,” passed away at the age of 80 on 27^th July at a hospice in Long Island, reports Clay Risen.

The Dark Academicals Book Club: 🕵🕯️🫣 What happens when a book desperately wants to be dark academia? – In their latest podcast Sophie & Sarah discuss Christopher J Yates’s The Rabbit Club, a thriller about a secret society at Oxford University, in whose shadow a first-year literature student’s life starts to unravel.

The Epoch Times: ‘A Year of Marvelous Ways’: Beauty, Tragedy, and Brilliance – British actress and author Sarah Winman’s historical novel set in Cornwall just after WWII, A Year of Marvellous Ways (the extra British l is dropped in the US version), is described by Adam H. Douglas as “poetic and stirring”. First published in 2015, it is, he says, “a well‑deserved new edition.”

Psyche: ✍️ Writing letters is a spiritual practice for our age of speed – “Handwritten letters seem like a remnant of pre-online life,” observes Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein, “but they connect us to ourselves and each other like nothing else”.

Financial Times (via Archive Today): Passage by Colin Thubron — a mesmerising exploration of marriage and the mind – “Set in the Valley of the Kings, this haunting novel shows the writer at the summit of his powers”, says Sue Gaisford in her review of British travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron’s tale of “an actress in her forties [with] a brain tumour located dangerously close to her hippocampus, the seat of memory.” Told “in a succession of 14 often sparse vignettes”, in this “accomplished, haunting” work, we watch her in the period “following [her] operation, when she doggedly fulfils her ambition to visit Egypt.”

Aotearoa New Zealand Review of Books: 🛸 Nova by Tim Corballis – “A ‘self-contained world launched into deep time’ begins to fall apart”, says August Elworthy of Nova – a philosophical sci-fi title from New Zealand novelist Tim Corballis.

The Common Reader: 📖 Why we still read novels – Henry Oliver describes Philip Hensher’s new study, A History of the Novel in Britain, as “enjoyably provocative and idiosyncratic”, particularly “alert to the way writers record modern speech” and “unlike some of the scholarly histories of the novel, [is] direct and succinct.”

The Letterpress Project: The Surprising Story of Penguin Illustrated Classics – The story of Penguin Illustrated Classics shows that not everything Penguin touched turned to gold. “You can’t win them all”, says Terry Potter – yet their scarcity has now made them increasingly collectable.

All Things Nordic: 🧛‍♂️🫣 The Icelandic Dracula That Wasn’t: How a ‘Translation’ Became One of Literature’s Greatest Mysteries – “Most readers know Bram Stoker’s Dracula as the definitive Gothic vampire novel. Few, however, are aware that one of its most intriguing incarnations was published […] in Iceland—and that it may not be a translation at all.” Powers Of Darkness (or Makt Myrkranna) – known as ‘the lost version of Dracula – was adapted by Valdimar Ásmundsson and translated by Hans Corneel De Roos, and published in 1901, but remained undiscovered until 1986. It has since become “one of the most remarkable literary mysteries ever uncovered”.

Books Worth Reading: 📖✍️ Why Modern Novels Can’t Create Great Characters – “Of all the qualities that make literature great, the most diminished in modern times is the art of the living, universal character”, argues Will Wilder. Dickens, he says, “could do what modern writers cannot”.

China Books Review: ✈️ W. Somerset Maugham: On a Chinese Screen – “Over a century after it came out, Maugham’s travelogue of his trip to China in 1919–20 reveals less about China itself, more about the foreigners who lived there”, says Jeremiah Jenne. On a Chinese Screen was out of print for decades and is now republished and restored by Alpha Editions as a collector’s item and a cultural treasure.

The New Humanitarian: ❄️🌷🏖️ What we’ve been reading at The New Humanitarian in 2026 (so far) – “This is a collection of some of the fiction and nonfiction [titles that team TNH] has dug into so far this year. As a good book always does, these have helped [them] dive deeper, challenged [their] thinking, opened [their] eyes wider, and often entertained [them] along the way.”

NIN: 🎤 Conversation with Gojko Božović: ten novels that best reflect the Serbs and Serbia – “A year ago, [Luka Mičeta] held a conversation with Gojko Božović for Newsmax Balkans television about the Serbian novel, more precisely about the novels that best reflect Serbia and the Serbian people.” The Serbian poet, literary critic, essayist and publisher “selected ten novels.”

Commonweal (via Archive Today): Released from Countdowns – Anthony Domestico argues that The Hill, Harriet Clark’s debut historical/coming-of-age novel, is in explicit conversation with Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping – a work he describes as “the best American debut novel of the past fifty years, maybe the best American novel of the past fifty years, period.” Remarkably, he thinks that it “stands up to the comparison.”

Toronto Star (Archive Today): 🍁🛸 After a life-altering diagnosis, this Canadian science-fiction legend publishes a wonderful anthology – Robert J. Sawyer’s “massive collection” of critical writings, Sawyer on Science Fiction, “is reviewed along with [books by] Rachel Tremblay, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Paul Tremblay”, says Alex Good.

Women Writing the World: 💉 Côte d’Ivoire: Beads on a Necklace – “Véronique Tadjo writes like no one else I’ve read”, says Lilian Nattel of this Pan-African writer, poet, novelist and artist from Côte d’Ivoire (aka Ivory Coast) whose book In the Company of Men drew on genuine accounts of the Ebola epidemic that devastated West Africa. It is, she says, a “touch read”.

Asterisk: Why We Like Things – Writer, critic and software designer Celine Nguyen gets to the bottom of “what Silicon Valley gets wrong about taste.”

The Telegraph (via Archive Today): 🎤🔬 Richard Dawkins: These days what’s true doesn’t matter, it’s what you feel that counts – “The forthright biologist [talks to Leaf Arbuthnot about] the ‘delusional’ gender debate, writing his first novel,” the recent publication of The Selfish Gene: 50th Anniversary Edition and why “he will not turn to God on his deathbed”.

ABC News: 🦘 Sheree Joseph’s debut memoir, Juicy, reveals what happens when life doesn’t live up to expectations – Sheree Joseph always wanted to write the Great Australian Novel. Instead, her first book is a memoir about what happens when life doesn’t live up to expectations.

Buenos Aires Herald: 🛸 ‘Los Sorias’: the legendary Argentine book that remains a secret abroad – “A [great favourite in Argentinian literature, especially among] renowned writers, the 1300-page political sci-fi novel by cult author Alberto Laiseca is up for an English translation”, reveals Agustín Mango.

franceinfo: Death of Didier Decoin: the writer and screenwriter in three works rewarded with prestigious prizes – “The writer and screenwriter Didier Decoin, former president of the Académie Goncourt, passed away on the morning of Wednesday, August 5 at the age of 81.”

Bloomberg (via Archive Today): 💘🦄 The Steamy, Magical and Now Very Lucrative Romantasy Business – “The billion-dollar genre has transformed the book industry, unleashed a cottage economy and promised Hollywood its next big franchise”, report Hannah Miller and Madison Muller.

Independent: Instagram’s new book feature totally misses the point of reading – “Instagram is rolling out a new feature that allows users to share the title of the book they’re currently reading. Do we really need more ways to talk online about the most offline of activities, asks Annabel Nugent”?

Three little AIs are we: 🤖🤖🤖
Silent Room: ✍️ Hemingway’s Writing Style, as Faked by Five AI Models – “Four classics, one station scene, twenty paragraphs of machine prose, and not a single real voice”. Arsen Revazov explains.
BBC Cambridgeshire: ✍️ AI stories preferred to human-written ones – study – “Readers gave the highest ratings to stories created by artificial intelligence (AI), believing they had been written by humans, according to new research”, reports Aimee Dexter.
Dispatches from the Rare Book Trade: 📚 How well does AI catalog rare books? – “Better than a human with 30 years’ experience, apparently”, admits Scott Brown.

Caught by the River: 📚 Another world is possible – “Gwydion’s Garden — Hebden Bridge’s newest shop for old books — is a treasure trove of all things green, earthy and countercultural. Here, proprietor and 2x world nettle-eating champion Bethan Hodges speaks to CBTR editor Diva Harris about alternative living, books for your third eye, what can be gleaned from nature-adjacent publications of days past, and Biker Mice from Mars.”

Double Dobbygate special: 🪄 ⚯🧙‍♀️
BBC Wales: Harry Potter fans force diversion of UK-Ireland power link to avoid ‘Dobby’s grave’ – “Harry Potter fans succeeded in diverting a multimillion-pound power link between the UK and Ireland after they complained it would disturb a ‘memorial’ to Dobby the House Elf.”
UnHerd (via Archive Today): JK Rowling is reaping the Potter whirlwind – More on the Dobby imbroglio, plus a controversial take on “Millennials absorbed [in] Harry Potter’s childish morality” from Poppy Sowerby. You read it here first (possibly)!

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FINALLY >>

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Thank you for taking the time to read this post. I wish you a week bountiful in books and rich in reading.

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