Momintroll and Comet in Moominland
I don’t buy many souvenirs on my travels, but I can never resist a good book. My Korean isn’t up to reading the whole novel, but I still had to have it. This is a translation of Comet in Moominland, my first discovery of the moomin family (in English!) when I was a child.
I know that I have many fellow Moomin fans out there, and you may be interested in this New Yorker article about Tove Jansson from just a few days ago.
Copyright Debbie Smyth, 2 April 2020
Posted as part of #acoffeeandabook series
What an amazing thing to own! If you were just nearer and I could access your library 😦
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I’ve popped over and left a comment. Good luck with your blog
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😚😚😚thank you
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Feeling ignorant here, as I’m not familiar with Moomin, although I’ve heard of the author.
janet
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The moomins are worth reading even though they are more for children than adults. But the author is worth exploring anyway as she wrote for adults too – try The Summer Book – excellent and a good one to read at the moment.
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Moomintroll! Love that mug! There was a place in Covent Garden devoted to all things Moomin, I should have bought a mug….
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You’ll be seeing more as I have a few of the mugs 🙂 The shop is still there (and one in Camden too) – so on a future visit, we’ll go and investigate. I haven’t been to either. There are Moomintroll cafes around the world, too, but I don’t think there are any in easy reach.
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Oh, brilliant! I shall look forward to that
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Oh, the hours I put into learning Hangul before we went to South Korea! And I still can’t decode the title. I’ve forgotten the lot …
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I’m the same – I loved the language. It was difficult to begin with, the geometric characters were much harder than comparatively flowing cyrillic, but once I got over that I discovered the music. I had a great teacher in london, and found some very helpful classes on YouTube. I’d like to go back to see more of the country and resuscitate the language.
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Me too – but it won’t be anytime soon …
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I love the moommin books as well!
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Mumin, in German. 🙂 In Italian and Spanish it’s also Mumin. Moumines in French. Moemins in Dutch (and quite possibly in Afrikaans).
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