I put off reading this book for a long time. I get really skeptical of those summer blockbuster books that everyone just loses their minds over. The only reason I ended up reading this book is because my book club picked it as their July book. For me, this book did not live up to the hype. At all. Caution: all of the spoilers ahead. Kya is the youngest child born into poverty in the North Carolina marsh. Her mother is loving, but struggling with […]

Starting at age six, Kya Clark’s family members left her behind one by one until she was living in the Carolina marshes all alone. Why did they do this? Well, because Delia Owens needed them to, I suppose. Another good question is how in the heck a child is supposed to get by on her own, to which the answer is apparently by gathering and selling mussels. Eventually, somehow, Kya grows up, learns to read, becomes an expert on the flora and fauna of the […]

Something drew me to Where the Crawdads Sing (2018) by Delia Owens when I first saw it, but it still took me a while to finally get to reading it. Once I began, I was quickly captivated by the story and finished the book in a couple of days. It wasn’t until the end when I was reading about the author that I discovered I’d actually read three other books by Delia Owens and greatly admire her. I love the outdoors and being in nature, and I […]