Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens is a beautiful book about nature, loneliness, and the power of an independent education.
We get to follow Kya, as a young girl learning to fend for herself to an adult woman in the middle of a murder investigation. The setting is a marsh, which is as much a character in the book as Kya. There's romance, mystery, and beautiful explorations of nature that bind this story together.
The murder investigation wasn't my favorite part of the story but it plays a crucial role in understanding the characters in this novel, their prejudices and their true beliefs come to life in the courtroom.
There are many reasons to read this book, from learning more about what it means to understand and live in nature to the dynamics of abandonment and loneliness. Either way, I highly recommend this book!
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Frosty morning all!
I was walking over to the bus when I noticed all this white stuff on some old tree stumps... Upon closer inspection it seems that it was just a Winter, Fall, Summer, and Spring meeting. They were taking a vote on allowing Winter a clearer presence in the area. "Come on! Everyone's doing it!" Winter said, "Summer gets waaaaay more time than any of us, right Fall?" Fall said "Well, yeah, but I don't know...." Anyways I had to run because my bus was leaving, wonder what they decided... 🤔
Cats and Dragons, I swear they are related!
Black Powder War by Naomi Novik is the third installment of the Temeraire series, a story about the Napoleonic Wars but with dragons!
Temeraire is an amazing and complex character, his interactions with all the other characters are fascinating, and the battles are really well written 😍
All in all a wonder series to read if you like dragons and some fantasy historical fiction (is that a genre?) Anyways, can you believe it's February? This is a very busy month for me but I'm very excited about it! How is your February looking?
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