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4.38 AVERAGE
4.38 AVERAGE
adventurous
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
Simply delightful.
adventurous
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
my favorite moomin book. such a good reminder that although winter is ridiculous and terrible, spring always shows up eventually.
adventurous
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Upending the cosiness of the previous Moomin books, Moomintroll wakes up in the dead of winter, unlike any Moomin before him. The rest of his family continue to hibernate in their warm beds. Moomintroll grows lonely and hungry, and wanders out into the winter world, seeing snow for the first time. He's scared, depressed, and longing for summer and the world he understands. Everything he knows to be warm and safe and beautiful has changed. He meets Too-Ticky, an endlessly practical creature who has taken up residence in Moominpappa's bathing house. She gives him fish soup and refuses to talk about the summer.
There is a beautiful allegory for depression here: all you have known and loved has been changed utterly, and it's impossible to find any kind of joy. At the same time, I love the wildness of the winter world: the creatures who are too strange to come out in summer, and the stark beauty of the silence and the under-ice fishing. Gradually, Moomintroll begins to wake up to the world once more. He makes peace with his mysterious Ancestor who lives in the woodstove. Little My, a familiar summer character, is brisk and uncompromising, but part of his own world. Most of all, he turns to Too-Ticky, who takes things as they are, and encourages him to open his house and jam-cellar to some hungry neighbours. There's so much I love in this book: Little My taking one look at the snow and saying, "Funny ideas people get." Moomintroll sleeping by the stove and learning to give jam to strangers. The strange, wild creature who dance around the bonfires and speak an unknown language. But most of all Too-Ticky, in all her practicality, kindness, and self-reliance. She's the lesbian I aspire to be.
There is a beautiful allegory for depression here: all you have known and loved has been changed utterly, and it's impossible to find any kind of joy. At the same time, I love the wildness of the winter world: the creatures who are too strange to come out in summer, and the stark beauty of the silence and the under-ice fishing. Gradually, Moomintroll begins to wake up to the world once more. He makes peace with his mysterious Ancestor who lives in the woodstove. Little My, a familiar summer character, is brisk and uncompromising, but part of his own world. Most of all, he turns to Too-Ticky, who takes things as they are, and encourages him to open his house and jam-cellar to some hungry neighbours. There's so much I love in this book: Little My taking one look at the snow and saying, "Funny ideas people get." Moomintroll sleeping by the stove and learning to give jam to strangers. The strange, wild creature who dance around the bonfires and speak an unknown language. But most of all Too-Ticky, in all her practicality, kindness, and self-reliance. She's the lesbian I aspire to be.