💗 2025 Reading Log | 51/200 yearly goal (+1 from last update)
This morning I finished reading Moby-Duck by Donovan Hohn (book log here), a travel memoir/popular science book ostensibly about a bunch of plastic animals that fell overboard in the early 90s and how they roamed around the ocean for 15 years. I enjoyed reading this book for many reasons, but I have to admit I don’t think the premise held together at the end.
The author supposedly quit his job to follow the duck trail but the last two (or maybe three) chapters he spends following oceanographers around instead and doesn’t even see any ducks (or other plastic animals) and barely remembers to squeeze mention of them into a few paragraphs. Which, I get it, the ducks are a dead end, but it’s the whole premise of your book…
Also I don’t want to be overly judgemental but he definitely did that thing that men do when they freak out about being fathers for the first time, abandon their family for a personal quest and then figure out they enjoy being a dad and having a son, etc. Just. Ugh.
Anyway! I need to get through some more Little Free Library books so I can swap them out again, so I’m going to start reading Seasons of the Wild by Sy Montgomery, which is a collection of essays about nature throughout the year, etc. It’s much shorter than Moby-Duck so I should be able to read it quick enough.
On a personal note, I really enjoyed putting together the book log post for Moby-Duck, and I’m definitely going to do that regularly.
