Sea Library

June has been a month of celebration. On June 4 the Sea Library turned 5 years old. What started as a leap of faith with 100 books about the sea has grown into a world-reknown place on the shores of the Baltic Sea with more than 700 titles in the collection.

The Sea Library has been featured in newspapers and magazines, both national and international, and a story about it was even aired on BBC Radio 4. I’m grateful for everything the sea has brought into my life. And keeps flooding my heart with joy.

On Sea Library’s 5th birthday, a very special family member arrived: our own dog – a blue-brown-eyed border collie Nemo. He is three months old now and will become a great part of the Sea Library adventure. By mere coincidence, he was born on World Water Day, March 22.

Now I’m embarking on a small sea adventure I cannot tell you more about yet but it will take all my free time (apart from my day job at the National Library of Latvia, spending time with my boys, Nemo, reading, and swimming…). So – the Sea Library will be closed to visitors for about a year, but don’t be sad, it will continue working via global post (as has been doing already for years, as most of the readership lives far away from this seaside corner of Latvia). Please, write me, if you want to borrow a book or donate a book, I’m always here: beachbooksblog@gmail.com. Also on Twitter and Instagram.

PS Have you already been collecting the limited edition Sea Library postcards? Three of them were issued in the last couple of years (the first two already sold out, and the third one – surfing through pages – is still available). Now, my sister, artist Katrīna Ģelze has drawn the fourth one (I will print them this summer!). With an imagined missing wall of the Sea Library and our Nemo puppy. Pictured above in the intro image. This wondrous library is exactly like that. Borderless, fluid, water-like. Created for you.

Yours,

Anna (and Nemo)