On the fourth day of my wish-list, my Christmas library

Something non-fiction but not particularly serious to shake things up.

Moby-Duck: The True Story Of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost At Sea And Of The Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, And Fools, Including The Author, Who Went In Search Of Them

I love a pun – and this book sounds like a quacker… And really! How could 28,800 bath toys honest-to-goodness-for-rizza have been lost at sea? How? I must know! Is this incrementally over time – across the long, rich history of bath toys – or were they all lost at once? Were they all rubber ducks? What other sorts of bath toys are there?

So many questions! I must read the book (or someone who has read it must contact me immediately to tell me the answers). Spoiler alert – reading the New York Times article in the link in the title above will answer pretty much all of these questions… but guess what? Hong Kong features. Heyyyyyy! High five H-to-the-K, sometime city of mine.

So on the fourth day of my wish-list, my Christmas library that’s:

Four Christmas quackers

Three Balkan tigers

Two Barnes’ ending

And a Snicket/Handler teenage love story