Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanograp hers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them | 
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Finished listening to this #Nonfiction #audiobook about rubber ducks.
But, honestly, it's so much more than the hunt for a shipment of lost children's toys. Hohn shares his journey across the world exploring how interconnected the world is and how durable our trash really is.
This book is a marathon and requires endurance to make it through but IMO the length is worth it.
#EarthDay #environment #green
Not sure why this #audiobook is rated so low 🤔
Regardless, I'm excited to begin this #Nonfiction adventure and finally move this book from my #TBR stack.
Just got this in the mail today! Thank you for the recommendation @Lcsmcat I cannot wait to read it! 🦆💛📚
pickI thoroughly enjoyed this romp through the oceans, chasing the elusive The First Years‘ bath toys that went overboard in the early 90‘s. I‘ll never look at the ocean or a “made in China” label the same again.
“Greenland, which on world maps resembles a wordless thought bubble floating up from the coast of Labrador, as if Canada‘s mind had gone blank.”
I‘m #LookingForwardToReading these four in November, and many more. #GratefulReads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620
I‘m loving all the literary references in this. Hohn taught high school English, and it shows. 😀
😱 OMG! That‘s really hard to wrap my brain around.
so-so🦆🦆 The travels far and wide (including crossing the Pacific on a container ship) and the facts about how our globalized world works and how the ocean is a part of it, we're fascinating. However, I found the author insufferable. A few Moby Dick references we're to be expected, but this contained an entire essay, plus several other tangents unrelated to the actual thesis of the book.
Nov 28th #NovemberByTheNumbers. How about 28 thousand, 800 duckies! 😂
Looks like a fun book to me!
If it's too #funny, I'm certainly gonna read it during the @DeweysReadathon 😁
Day 8
#30daysofreadathon
#TBRtemptation post 8! I think you get the gist of the book from its extensive sub-title, lol. And the main title is fantastic 😁👍🏻. Who wouldn't want to follow a bunch of rubber duckies around the world? You'll learn about shipping conglomerates, scientists in the Arctic, maverick sailors, & Chinese toy factories. Science, mythology, economics, & the climate, all get to play a role. Sounds like quirky fun! #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
bailedUgh. This had such promise! Such an interesting premise! Yet three weeks later I'm barely a third of the way through. It's such a slog. I'm apparently not in the right mindset. Mostly I'm finding it boring and more about his sea trips than anything interesting about the flotsam. Though I am committed to even more severely cutting down my usage of disposable plastics.
In the corner, a surfboard leaned against a fence, and a pair of wet suits, one bright blue the other bright red, hung from a clothesline. They looked like melted superheroes.
#ilovesimile
