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.
Thankyou Helen. What a thoughtful and lovely gift. I‘m looking forward to reading this one by Patrick Gale. Thankyou 😘
My history-loving son has walking pneumonia, so I suggested we spend some time watching this book-adjacent series together while he waits for the antibiotics to do their work. He said, "Mom, that looks like the kind of show a middle-aged woman would watch."
I argued that, while I am, in fact, a middle-aged woman, that doesn't mean teenaged history buffs wouldn't like the show, too.
And then I left him to his Discord and his D&D YouTube videos.
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 2mo
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. 2mo
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. ♥️ 2mo