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The Exploits of Moominpappa, Described by Himself
by Tove Jansson
Moominpappa completes the memoirs that chronicle his youth and reads them to Moomintroll & Co. Much of my delight in Finn Family Moomintroll lies in the idea that any weirdo could come off the path to find a welcoming home with the Moomin family, so the sense of predestination that comes from a similarly-configured previous generation of characters destroys that fantasy. I'll admit that this bugged me more than is reasonable, and it made it difficult for me to appreciate these characters in their own right. They do contrast and contextualize the primary cast, and the "charming but annoying" characterization ubiquitous to this series means so much to me--in texts of this tone, I appreciate characters being forgiven their myriad flaws. Complaints and strengths of characters aside, I didn't find this as evocative as other books and I weary of another travelogue format; the humor, however, remains strong. This was for me a regression in the series, which I had found to be steadily improving--but it's still fine.