Although I did reread the iceberg because it was so beautiful. I previously read “Sculptor’s Daughter”, so I only read those stories in the Winter Book that didn’t feature there. In fact, when I said I read I’m also lying to you and to the Goodreads challenge. I read this book in the summer and I’m reviewing it in the winter. It's a funny story about accepting and embracing the notion of 'travelling light' (the name of the penultimate story), and even about a sort of 'taking leave' (the title of the last). (She has plenty of canned food: she is mostly worried about her Madeira.) She keeps putting off her tasks.and then the squirrel arrives.
In "The Squirrel" an aging woman, alone on her island as winter approaches, keeps reminding herself of the supplies she wants to replenish before she can no longer get her boat out. The story that leads off the last section, and the only one written in third-person, is my favorite. When she is older, she sets out to sail solo around the archipelago, at the wink of her mother, hoping to dodge her father.
She rolls a huge stone home up the stairs she tags along oblivious to where she's not wanted she claims an iceberg as her own.
The stories of the first two sections are the first-person narrations of an unnamed, feisty, stubborn young child. Not that all of these stories, selected from Jansson's earlier collections and most previously untranslated, are set in winter-or even in the winter of a life, though those of the third, and last, section are. Last July I read Jansson's The Summer Book and then bought this one, saving it for the winter.
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