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Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
DID NOT FINISH
I thoroughly did not enjoy this book. Ooooph. I don't recall my view of a book ever being this far from the general consensus.
I found the story to be slow, absurd, and entirely uninteresting.
I made it a third of a way before having to abandon ship. This passage about Kya, a girl that essentially raised herself in the swamp, literally just learning to read was the last straw:
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Slowly, she unraveled each word of the sentence: "There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot."
"Oh," she said. "Oh."
"You can read, Kya. There will never be a time again when you can't read."
"It ain't just that." She spoke almost in a whisper. "I wadn't
aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full."
He smiled. "That's a very good sentence. Not all words hold that much."
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Barf. Most YA novels aren’t *that* heavy handed.
I found the story to be slow, absurd, and entirely uninteresting.
I made it a third of a way before having to abandon ship. This passage about Kya, a girl that essentially raised herself in the swamp, literally just learning to read was the last straw:
— — — — — — — —
Slowly, she unraveled each word of the sentence: "There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot."
"Oh," she said. "Oh."
"You can read, Kya. There will never be a time again when you can't read."
"It ain't just that." She spoke almost in a whisper. "I wadn't
aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full."
He smiled. "That's a very good sentence. Not all words hold that much."
— — — — — — — —
Barf. Most YA novels aren’t *that* heavy handed.