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Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

Start date: March 15, 2019

Finish date: April 1, 2019

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Apr 18, 2019 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it really liked it

Shelves: read2019, southern, audiobook, around-the-usa, location-usa-nc

This novel had so much hype, between its listing as a pick for Book of the Month and a monthly pick for Reese Witherspoon's book club, that I almost didn't want to read it. But I was headed to a long weekend in Beaufort, SC, with a landscape similar to that of the book, and decided to listen to it on the way there. We got about 10% in listening at 1x speed. After returning home and finishing up some podcast listening, I returned to the book at 1.75x speed and finished it in a few days.

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Jun 23, 2019 Joyce rated it it was ok

Shelves: book-club-choice

OK beach book. Reads like a Hallmark Channel movie.

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Sep 20, 2019 Robert rated it really liked it

I clearly really, really liked this book; hence my four-star rating. There was a strongly developed sense of reality in both the setting and the characters. The characters possessed a solid reality and individuality. The narrative was circuitous despite essentially being set in one area, the coastal swamps of the Carolinas. The narration moved easily binding the relatively numerous characters into a relatively seamless plotline. The language was relatively straightforward aside from the author's ...more

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Aug 31, 2019 Jennifer rated it it was amazing

4.5 might be more accurate. A beautifully written story of Kya, a girl left alone to raise herself in the marshes of North Carolina.

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Jan 04, 2019 Lee rated it liked it

I think most of the book is a great light read, especially the nature descriptions. I only give it a 3 because I think the end was implausible and slightly saccharine.

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