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It's new book time!! I've finished all the books I was reading/listening to so it's a clean slate

This is the #audiobook I am listening to. I've heard so many good things about it so I'm looking forward to it!!

Deciding whether or not to read... what do you guys think?

I‘d like to get opinions. Anyone read this book?

"You all listen now, this is a real lesson in life. Yes, we got stuck, but what'd we girls do? We made it fun, we laughed. That's what sisters and girlfriends are all about. Sticking together even in the mud, 'specially in mud."

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This was my favourite read of 2019, if not all time!!
I absolutely loved the southern descriptions that Owens uses throughout the novel.
I found myself relating to Kya since I have an avid love for the outdoors and being out in nature.
It was heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time.
This coming of age story is perfect for anyone who has found themselves struggling to fit in,
Or for anyone who has a true love for nature.

I'm not going to complete my goal of 25 states this year, but I've made a little progress and can check off Hawaii, Wyoming and North Carolina with these three reads 📚
#ReadingUSA2019 @Librarybelle

So I this book is not what you think it‘s going to be! I found it to be a great story! Loved the ending! It was a little long and drawn out through some of the plot! It was most definitely a romance! #marshgirl #featherboy #crawdadssing

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yes, i am #bookstagram -ing this. It's amazing. My mom, @corizzo, gave me the recommendation to listen to the audio book on the drive up to huntsville to see my dad last week. I got through about 10 chapters and then decided I needed to read it on paper, and i've been hooked ever since. def recommendation to whoever needs a warm fall read! #bookstagrammer

This was a beautifully written story about a little girl that grows up in the marshes of North Carolina. Read it for the nature descriptions, stay for the mystery.
👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 My book club had a great discussion about this book - not enough mystery, too much love story, everything‘s just right. We put it all on the table but it was mostly loved. I‘ll definitely be reading what Delia Owens puts out next.
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My MIL loaned this to me and said I HAD to read it. Maybe I‘m just contrary, but when people tell me I have to do something, I don‘t want to do it. So this has been sitting around my house for months... Once I finally picked it up though, I flew through it. I‘m not completely sold on the ending, but I enjoyed the process to get there.

"This little piggy stayed home."

Saturday night in your 30s

The writing is lyrical and flowing, kin to Pat Conroy's descriptions of similar Low Country flats and sea, and nearly as well-written. But whereas Conroy klunks the reader on the head with long passages of beauty, Owens flows into the reader slowly, like tides coming in and then receding. I think it's a triumph of a first novel, and I very much hope that she will publish again. Highly recommend.

halfway through. Can't stop reading!!

It's prolix yet goes nowhere slowly and in painful detail. In 50 pages, only about three things have happened, unless you want to count multiple cookings of grits. I fucking love grits, but there is simply no excuse for grits to be cooked more than once in the first 50 pages of a book unless I am actually reading a grits cookbook. I'm just gonna wiki why that dude died, because I will cry if I try to read more of this.

This is the first book in a while I devoured in one day. I absolutely loved it.

Time to find out what all the fuss is about.

"Marsh is not swamp. Marsh is a space of light, where grass grows in water, and water flows into the sky. Slow-moving creeks wonder, carrying the orb of the sun with them to the sea, and long-legged birds lift with u expected grace--as though not built to fly--against the road of a thousand snow geese."

Got the Large Print. Heard mixed reviews. Guess I will see where I fall.

Not bad, but didn't live up to the hype.

Def a page turner! Made this pregnant lady cry

Yes, the narrative is beautiful. Yes, the settings are captivating. But there was no plot. So many things bothered me about this book...how the author romanticized rural poverty, how she asked the reader to endure dozens of pages describing nature, how the stereotypical dialog never matched the narrative, how all characters seemed devoid of emotion/reactions. Got to pg 70 before I decided I wanted to throw darts at it and gave up.

Library haul ... have wanted to read Where the crawdads sing for an age ... and wanted to update my graphic novel reading it‘s been a while ... thank you my local library 📚

Absolutely loved listening to this audiobook about a young girl who‘s abandoned in a marsh in North Carolina and has to learn to survive on her own. The narrator does a great job, so I highly recommend listening to this one.

Had to quite reading. Print to small. Waiting to get Large Print copy from Library 😆

This is the book club pick for November. Excited to get started.

Such a wonderful story about abandonment, solitude and the impact of isolation on the human being. The book has all the reader is expecting from a captivating storyline - family drama, mistery, love, crime, and all of these happening in the magical nature of the marsh of North Carolina.

October Reading Stats:

📚Fiction: 2 🔍Mystery: 1 🚀SFF: 1 👧🏽Kids/YA: 5 ✒️Poetry: 1 🗯Graphic Novel: 1

📚Print: 8 🎧Audio: 3 🖥 eBook: 1

🏫Library: 8 📚TBR: 3 ♻️Re-read: 1

Favorite: Where the Crawdads Sing

This was a fun reading month! LOTS of good books. I did try to work in the seasonal reads, including a few spooky-enough-for-me (which isn‘t very) books. And I‘m suuuuuuper behind on reviews, so... hoping to catch up on that this weekend!

I feel like I‘m the last person on the planet to read this book!

Dove into this book without reading the description- just knowing it was a big hit at the moment. After a few chapters I too was sucked into the hype, enjoying the story of this amazing little girl on her own in the marsh. This book will make you want grits and biscuits!!

My cousin and a close friend didn‘t like this book, but my mother in law and my friend‘s mother loved it, so I was intrigued and had to read it. I loved it and was totally entranced from the beginning to the end. kya is a special character that I loved from when she was a young girl until she was 64. She was so incredibly brilliant and creative but the townspeople treated her like she was subhuman. Just heard there will be a movie

Slow burn. Especially on audio. I drive wayyyy to much for work. Overall, I have enjoyed this book.

Other have raved about this book, and I join their praises. Such an intriguing story. The details are amazing and drew me in instantly. “Then, as she whirled around, she bumped into Tate, who had stood, and they froze, staring into each other's eyes. They stopped laughing. He took her shoulders, hesitated an instant, then kiss her lips, as the leaves rained and danced around them as silently as snow.“ (Where the Crawdads Sing)

The story of "the marsh girl" of Barkley Cove is hauntingly beautiful...a story of learning to trust human connections, with a murder mystery.

For me this book was much like Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone – it made me see a place I've never been to and fall in love with it. This was a harrowing tale of loneliness, abandonment, loss of trust and a person's unbreakable connection with nature.🍃♥️
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Starting this one tonight and hoping for a good read.

Heard different views on this book. Some loved it, some hated it. Guess I will see where I fall.

Wow! I loved this book. Once I got into it I couldn‘t put it down. All the feels! 5/5 stars!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

How much do you trade to defeat lonesomeness?

It's probably a big discussion about why this book is so big...

What I liked: the opening chapters, the marsh description

What I didn't like: everything else

Starting this for book club.

This has My Absolute Darling vibes so far... ♥️🌳🌿

#myabsolutedarling #gabrieltallent #audiobook

Fantastic coming of age story about a young girl named Kya, who is forced to grow up on her own and learn the ways of life. She goes through so many trials and tribulations but remains strong willed despite of everything handed to her. It did start out a little slow for me, but once the book got going it was hard to put down.

Another book club book 📚 sooo there‘s been so much hype about this particular novel, and I was all set to be blown away. Sadly, I was not. As a coming of age novel, it was good. The murder aspect fell a little flat for me. The end of the book, I still have questions. Also, this is my fault but I could not stop comparing the Southern speak to that of “The Help” - one of my all time favorites. This was a good book, but not my favorite.

I had to listen to the end today to finish & find out what happens. I tried to stay away from all the hype it got as I think it can color my opinion to the negative, so I slowly worked my way through it & loved both the story & Cassandra Campbell‘s narration. Kya & her marsh were both beautiful & touched my heart. There were a few slow parts meandering along the way but when I let myself get caught up in the prose & the nature, it was magical🧡

At about 75% complete, it‘s today‘s #audiosouping choice. Part of me wants to read ahead in the print version but I‘m enjoying the narration & storytelling too much. Today‘s soup is a simple creamy tomato—a Mark Bittman recipe from How to Cook Everything. It‘s still not quite tomato soup weather here (too humid) but it will be welcome for lunches in my cold office this week. Finished soup pics coming later.
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4.5 stars.

This book was simply beautiful. I do not know how to say much more without giving some part of the plot away.

All I know is that Kya is one of the strongest women I have ever read.

Photo from ncwetlands.com

Everyone kept talking about this book so I thought why not? Part murder mystery, romance, and historical fiction— it definitely kept me guessing. Interesting but maybe overhyped???

I had 100 bucks worth of points to cash in at Indigo, and this is what I got! #plumpoints