Sophia, a precocious six year old, and her wise and spunky grandmother explore this island during one summer at their cottage. My post is a little late due to end of the academic year, (sorry Dave) however, I read this book in 2 days last week and I loved every second of it.

They are determined to become a part of its ecosystem without changing it, though they are too much of realists to know that doing so completely is possible. Enter Derek Pender, a hotshot Sharks team NFL player, taking a break after a tragic injury, attempting a comeback before being replaced by a younger player or traded to another team.She was old enough to be a grandmother, but of course she was also a daughter, and one who had just lost her mother, a condition mirrored in the books unusual point of view, which hovers above and around the island and seems not so much to move from grandmother to granddaughter as to share them, inhibiting both sensitivities in a manner of weather.

Nora didn’t end things as gracefully as she could have back then, and now it’s come back to haunt her. Like that is our primary goal in life and once found, he should be her end-all-be-all until he's finished with her. Jansson expertly harnesses the aura of summer, and its nights that are, as Bruno Schulz once wrote, ‘ as vast as the megalomanic aspirations of young lovers. Many of the men who appear in her story seem lacking in some sense or simply out of step with their environment: the father nearly destroys the surrounding vegetation when he imports exotic plants, diverting resources away from native varieties; a wealthy man builds an extravagant house close to the family’s cabin, an eyesore that disrupts the shoreline. It's, well, a book, indeed, I can commit myself further and say that it is a Summer book, easy, and lazy, and hazy, the days are long and seem never to end, the weather is fine - until it isn't, and the world is in bloom, even on the Aland Islands off the coast of Finland.This clever book will appeal to all; those who are already hedgehog fans and those who are newcomers. Both Anderson and Grandmother live at times on an island where they are tolerant, though very wary, of outsiders.