Adrift: The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost at Sea | 
pickHad such a great time reading this!
I'm thinking a good 30 percent of that was production value, the choices made in the book's design, to go heavy on the visual impact, including many images of Lego found, of examples of plastic pollution in the ocean, (sometimes as the result of cargo spills, but not always), but photographing and composing the pages so they are art, and even often have an I Spy book quality. 1/?
Oh good, there's a word that. 😖
I mean...the love for vintage is often subjectively the love of old junk - though often it can be better crafted than newer junk...and the study of artifacts is often archaeologists in middens, actual trash piles. Plastic makes up a large amount of our junk for decades now...makes sense old plastic now falls in the realm of enthusiasts, collectors, historians, archaeologists.
Just when you think the housing market can't get any worse...🦀
Next level photobombing. 👀
So many impactful visual examples in this book that double as art, demonstrating the plastic pollution in the ocean.
Yes: more non-fiction should include poems as interstitials. Especially if the pages have paintings/interesting patterns as backgrounds.
I was today years old when I learned that the eels names in the little mermaid actually are nautical terms. How did I not know the meaning of these words before now?! 🤷🏻♀️
Kinda have mixed feeling about this new knowledge 🤨🤣
Any one who were to walk into our home would soon realize that there two things we do a lot of in this house. Read books and build Lego. So this book is the right fit! A book about LEGO!
pickDad spent his career as a ship salvage engineer rescuing ships gone aground or sunk beneath the waves. Perhaps as a consequence, the story of the cargo has always intrigued me…what happens when it falls overboard? Adrift is a cross between a beautiful coffee table book, short essays, and fun facts about the things that wash up on our shores. It‘s about ocean currents, consumerism, plastic, and beachcomber finds.
This book is charming and so beautifully done! Multimedia journal style with artist Jo Atherton supplying the cyanotype endpapers made with found beach objects. An oceanographer and BBC journalist consulted. It‘s worth every penny and now I want to send one to everyone I know! 🤩😍🤩
This was gifted by a dear friend and former work colleague. He said he hopes I don‘t stay up all night reading.—It‘s like he doesn‘t know me at all. 🤣
The book discusses the particular cargo spill with Lego pieces that got Williams interested in this phenomenon, but it's fair to say the broader conversation is about plastic in the ocean, washing up on beaches, the study of ocean currents helping to determine where these items go, the efforts of various individuals to highlight the 7d
It's not that the book had little to say and needed to bulk it out with images, I think the writers are savvy in realizing how much images add to the topic at hand. 7d
It's not a book full of solutions, though there are some (not green washing?) developments with Lego discussed that leave me optimistic.
There's something so hopeful about a good book talking about an important topic in an absorbing way. ♥️ 7d