Customer Reviews

How To Live At The Beach

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Although this is a darling book with charming illustrations, it is much more than that. It also contains the most wonderful and on-target thoughts about beach living.

For example: "We want to elongate the days, distill the memories, make them last. At the same time we know that the beauty is in the evanesence....Every wave comes in, then retreats. Every day promises, then turns its back and slips away. Every joy has a little tease in it, a give and take, and leaves a wake of longing."

"Simplicity is a process. It's a kind of surrender. It's a forgetting of the rules we never liked much anyway, of the values that have no real value, of the goals that never made much sense anyway."

The last page says it all: "And that slow, crooked, seeminly aimless path of our lives at the beach may just be getting us closer and closer to our best selves."

I got this as a Christmas gift and have read it over and over. It is a lovely gift for anyone you know who loves the beach. I plan to buy several copies for just this purpose.

If you have never been to the beach the experiences are captures in this book - It will also bring back the memories of the your last trip to the beach and make you want to go again.

I loved this book & bought it for my aunt who has a beach house. It's a feel good book about placing value in the simple things like snow cones and seagulls. It is perfect for anyone who enjoys freeing themselves of life's business with an escape to the beach. More for adults but ok for all ages. Lovely simple water color sketches. Loved it! I will definatley buy from this author again and look at calendars next year.

I purchased "How To Live At The Beach" for my friend as a thank you for having us at her shore house. I saw this book on a coffee table when my husband and I were on vacation and immediately thought of buying one to give to her. The watercolored illustrations are so enjoyable to look at and the sayings and phrases throughout the book are humorous, inspiring and just plain fun to read. This is a book that will delight adults and children.

People who DO live at the beach could relate to this whimsical fore tell.
It is a coffee table book. Very small physically and short read. Inspire guests experience of there time spent at the beach. Good for a gift to some one moving to the beach. Light read poetic okay for all ages.

This is written for small children and was somewhat a disappointment from the write-up. I was interested in light reading material for adults on vacation in a cottage at the beach.

I have this in my beach front condo and it fits in great.

I bought this (sight unseen of course) for a friend as a small thank you for a wkend gathering at her beach house. I had to find something else however as I hated this book when it arrived in the mail. A collection of "Deep Thoughts" coupled w/not-very-attractive illustrations. Does Amazon take books back? I hope so.