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A review by tillydaisym
Notes from an Island by Tuulikki Pietilä, Tove Jansson
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Tove Jansson’s books have always been a special source of solace for me. She writes with such wisdom and honesty about art, life, nature, friendship, loneliness, and belonging.
Notes From an Island (tr. Thomas Teal) is a collection of diary entries from her time living on a secluded island off the Gulf of Finland with her lifetime partner, ‘Tooti’ (and is interspersed with art by Tuulikki Pietilå too).
It’s a meditation on the empowering force of solitude in nature, but also the relentlessness of a stark, isolated seascape.
*Thankyou to the publisher for a gifted copy; all thoughts my own xo
Notes From an Island (tr. Thomas Teal) is a collection of diary entries from her time living on a secluded island off the Gulf of Finland with her lifetime partner, ‘Tooti’ (and is interspersed with art by Tuulikki Pietilå too).
It’s a meditation on the empowering force of solitude in nature, but also the relentlessness of a stark, isolated seascape.
*Thankyou to the publisher for a gifted copy; all thoughts my own xo