How to Live at the Beach

by Sandy Gingras

How to Live at the Beach -- the companion book to How to Live on an Island -- is at home anywhere on any coast, or far from it. For the beach is only a metaphor, and with every reading the metaphor... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945582730
• ISBN13: 9780945582731
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Down the Shore Publishing
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great Gift Book For Many

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.

yes

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.

Great book for Condo

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

A real life experience in a book

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.

Not just a cute book!

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.