A review by susannam
The Listener by Tove Jansson

3.0

I'm not a lover of the short form, so I'm probably not a good judge of this collection of short stories by Tove Jansson, an author most famous for her wonderful memoir from childhood called The Summer Book and for her fantastical and wildly popular Muumin stories for children. Short stories generally leave me too soon (well, yeah, they're short) and I feel their unfinished quality in a way that doesn't feel satisfying. That said, there are a few short stories in this book that I love, so if you ARE a short story afficionado, I'd say, try this one.