Wild Waves

 June 8 is World Ocean Day

World Ocean Day catalyzes collective action for a healthy ocean and a stable climate, working in collaboration with youth leaders and a wide range of organizations. 

World Ocean Day belongs to all groups and individuals, collectively, everywhere. 

It’s about how we can create a better future with an abundant ocean and a stable climate, by working together.

A few items found on social media that help drive home the point that humans are schmucking up our planet, and it's time we stopped.

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In honor of June is Audiobook Month:

I recommend the following audiobooks by Neil Gaiman:

Coraline (2006)

 Anansi Boys (2006)

A Study in Emerald (2007)

American Gods (2011)

The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2014)

Trigger Warning (2015)

Neverwhere (2018)

The author narrated each of the above.

Neil Gaiman...what a fantastic storyteller.

He's written many, many books; I've only scratched the surface with the seven listed above.

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National Library Card Sign-Up Month

September is National Library Sign-Up Month!

The modern library is not only books, but free wi-fi, games, classes, book groups, sewing clubs, jigsaw puzzles, quiet study, lectures, and so much more.

Visit your local library soon, and get your library card.

It's uses are endless.

And, you'll save yourself TONS of money by checking out books, audiobooks, ebooks, games, sewing machines, gardening tools, wifi hotspots, etc., instead of BUYING everything!

P.S. Laurie R. King and Neil Gaiman are two of my very favorite authors.

Book Review: The Ocean At The End Of The Lane

Title: The Ocean at the End of the Lane 

Originally published: June 18, 2013

Author: Neil Gaiman

Publisher: William Morrow and Company

ISBN 1472228421, 9781472228420

Length: 272 pages

Found this book by accident, as I was scrolling through available audiobooks at my local public library.  Now I am a NeilGaimanaholic!

Truly, I cannot describe the story line much, without giving a lot away, but it involves a man who remembers pieces of his childhood, beginning when an Australian opal miner steals his father's car.  The car is found later at the end of the lane.  During his youthful travels, the boy befriends a family of women, who say they lived before the moon was hung in the sky.  And, that the pond on their land wasn't a pond; it was really an ocean.

And here's the best part: there are cats in the story!  A black cat, with a spot over one ear, named...appropriately...Ocean, and who was a kitten at first, but age doesn't move linearly in that part of the world!  The boy loves his cat, and now that I've read a few other Neil Gaiman stories, I find that the author must be a huge cat-lover, because felines are sprinkled into all his tales.

I listened to a recording of this book, read by the author himself, so perhaps his own voice, reading his own words helped to sweep me along into this land of adults who don't understand, and children who do.  However, I heartily recommend it to anyone; you will find it a page-turner!