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"His family looked just as tiny and helpless as they had looked in the crystal ball; he was guiding them safely across the vast ocean through the silent, blue night. The hurricane lamp lit the way, just as if Moominpappa had drawn a firm bright line across the map, saying: "from here... to there. That's where we're going to live. There my lighthouse will be the centre of the world, it will tower proudly above the dangers of the ocean at its feet." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #moomins #oursea #moominpappaatsea #tovejansson #lighthouse #boat #family #story #bookstagram #read #enjoy #borrow #page33

"Failing to complete he full work, "Dead Souls" later became the most famous book to remain unfinished. Food in the book, often monstrous and queer, is so prevalent that it pretty much forms the main character. Chichikov, the book's protagonist, enjoying a blowout feast with landowner Sobakevich, gorges on "a sheep's stomach stuffed with buckweat groats, brains and trotters" followed by 'cheesecakes, each much bigger than a plate', before finishing up with unusual preserves including 'black raddish, cooked in honey'. Elsewhere in the story, even cocroaches appear 'like prunes', and one pie is stuffed with the cheeks and gristle of a 'nine-pood' (325-pound) sturgeon." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #carolineeden @edentravels #blacksea #dispatches #recipes #darkness #light #deadsouls #nikolaigogol #food #writing #feast #travel #odessa #romania #bulgaria #istanbul #turkey #trabzon #environs #quadrille #bookstagram #borrow #read #page33

"Tales of mermaids lend themselves well to musical adaptation, partly because music is an integral part of the legend. Ever since Homer wrote of the Sirens, it has been said that supernatural sea-beings enchanted mortals with their song. Music can convey magic; it can represent the flowing notes of water; it can express love or desire. All these elements come together in the mermaid romance, a challenge and invitation to composer." PAGE 33 📖 🧜🏻‍♀️💙 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #sophiakingshill #mermaids #coverart #jonnyhannah @darktownresident #history #folklore #myth #undine #rusalka #selkie #underwater #littletollerbooks @littletollerdorset #bookstagram #read #borrow #page33

"The women were waiting, powerless and broken. What happened after the end of the world? Polyxena sat at her mother's feet, absently rubbing her hand up and down her mother's calf like a small child. Andromache sat slightly apart from her mother-in-law. She was born as Trojan, but had married Hector and become one of them. Her baby nested beneath her chin, grizzling a little - the noise and panic had disturbed his sleep. And Cassandra faced the ocean, her mouth moving soundlessly. She had long since learned to keep quiet, even if she could not halt the stream of words flowing from her lips." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #ocean #library #sealibrary #nataliehaynes #athousandships #fiction #history #ancient #greece #troy #women #feminsim #trojanwar #book #bookstagram #mantlepublishers @mantlepressbooks #borrow #read #page33

"He turned round and looked at the road. The mist had almost covered the dishes. He could only see the one closest to the fence. The metal was dripping. The antenna was tilted towards the road. It almost looked like it was pointing at him. Was it pointing at him? He took a step towards it, then stopped and shook his head. It was pointing upwards, above the houses, like it always did." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #lucywood #thesingoftheshore #shortstories #haunting #mystery #scary #cornwall #outofseason #housebythesea #books #bookstagram #shore #shoreline #bythesea #borrow #read #page33

"She lifts a hand up high to brush a clinging strand of hair from her damp forehead and I fix on the secret shadow under her armpit, plum-blue, the tint of my humid fantasies for nights to come. Chloe sulks. Myles goes back to delving violently in the sand with his stick. Their father folds his newspaper and squints at the sky. Rose is examining a loose button on her shirt. The little waves rise and plash, the ginger dog barks. And my life is changed forever." PAGE 33* 🌊 🌊 🌊 #sea #library #sealibrary #johnbanville #thesea #novel #fiction #manbookerprize #coast #memories #prose #twins #loss #reconciliation #arrhistorian #seaside #village #trauma #past #haunting #healing #books #bookstagram @picador #picador #borrow #read #page33

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Lasītāji grāmatas ņem un lasa par brīvu, bet tu vari atbalstīt Jūras bibliotēku, lai tā augtu.

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This morning I posed for an artist 💎 My portrait by Kristians, 10 yr old #homeschool #drawing #portrait #sealibrarian

good morning, cloud, can I swim in you #river #nature #morning #beauty

ABC of the Sea Library!⠀ ⠀ C is for Captain, my boys have decided ⚓⠀ ⠀ We explored books in the Sea Library and chose four captains - three of them are from 19th century adventure stories ☠️💰✨ ⠀ ⠀ Captain Ahab 🐳 from "Moby-Dick", Captain Nemo 🛸 from "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", Captain Flint ☠️ from "Treasure Island" and Captain E J Smith 🚢 who steered Titanic on an unlucky night⠀ ⠀ Kristians is a bit obsessed with Titanic for last few weeks, so he drew a portrait of Captain E J Smith! look at that! ⠀ ⠀ Which are your favorite captains from books and from seven seas? 📚⠀ ⠀ #abc #sealibrary #captain #alphabet

new beginnings #galvuaugšā ✨

Our terrace is a pirate ship, you have to defend it from your older brother, not an easy task! Treasure map is inside the book #skeletonisland #boys #pirates #sunnyday

good morning, world #river #sun #beautifulmorning

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You can donate a book to the Sea Library to help to fill its shelves. Send me a note, if you have a sea book you no longer need. I will take a good care of it and find a reader. Contact!

Ja tev ir grāmata par tuviem un tāliem ūdeņiem un jūras pasauli, kuru vairs nelasi, bet gribi, lai lasītu citi, dāvini bibliotēkai! Raksti man.

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