I wonder if I could actually *read* my #titlesandtunes book this month…
Starting by following three creatures, a sanderling, a mackerel and an eel, on their sea-based journeys around the world. What could be more fitting? (OK, I‘m not sure that oysters are great travellers. In fact where on EARTH does that expression come from? But still…)
And a bit of niche nineties nostalgia for the song - Oysterband. We could leave right now. The wind
so-soThis is my third RC book about the sea, and it‘s my least favorite; The Sea Around Us is the one I like best. The lovely, poetic language is there, but the book is boring. I often fell asleep after reading less than a page. I had to renew it twice in order to finish it. She follows birds, fish, eels and other creatures through their life cycles in the sea — even giving some of them names, although she wasn‘t consistent with that.
pickCarson‘s first book is a striking poetic-prose tour through the US eastern coastal world. Published in 1941 shortly before Pearl Harbor, this was lost until the success of next books.
I listened after learning about Carson and her eels in The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson, read recently with #naturalitsy
Pictured is a black skimmer
‘To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and the flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.‘
#intothemystic #MarchIntoThe70s
Under the Sea Wind | 
*These are absolutely NOT the actual words. But it does kind of fit. Ish. 9mo