Showing posts with label Delia Owens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Delia Owens. Show all posts

Monday, August 15, 2022

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #584, August 15th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!
What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #583
Teaser Tuesday #591
WWW Wednesday #591
WOW #587
Will the Time Come #584
Third Sentence Thursday #574
Random Reads #560
First Lines Friday #587
Book Blogger Hop #253
Monthly ARC's Update 19
The Reward Challenge Update #569
Wheel of TBR #116
How Well I Stuck to It #421
Wrote that Review Update #418

Week 32 Reviews:
Dare You to Lie

ARC August: 

Magical Readathon: Orilium: 

Pick-Pong-A-Thon:
Update 4

Random:

OK, so I got 50 posts in 7 days, and it was a pretty great week with pretty good books. Today is a bit nerve wracking, because Dobby is having his 5th cancer surgery today, and he's 14 years old, so hopefully he gets through it okay. What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Nine Liars.

Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious, and now she's taking her detecting skills abroad when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England. Another pulse-pounding and laugh-out-loud stand-alone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.

Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. Her boyfriend, David, is studying in London. Her friends are obsessed with college applications. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain--questions about college, love, and life in general.

Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University went to a country house and played a drunken game of hide-and-seek. Two were found in the woodshed the next day, murdered with an ax.

The case was assumed to be a burglary gone wrong, but one of the remaining seven saw something she can't explain. This was no break-in. Someone's lying about what happened in the woodshed.

Seven suspects. Two murders. One killer still playing a deadly game.
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Saturday, August 13, 2022

Week 32 Review: Where the Crawdads Sing

From Goodreads:
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when the popular Chase Andrews is found dead, locals immediately suspect her.

But Kya is not what they say. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life's lessons from the land, learning the real ways of the world from the dishonest signals of fireflies. But while she has the skills to live in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world—until the unthinkable happens.

In Where the Crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a profound coming of age story and haunting mystery. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens's debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the child within us, while also subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

The story asks how isolation influences the behavior of a young woman, who like all of us, has the genetic propensity to belong to a group. The clues to the mystery are brushed into the lush habitat and natural histories of its wild creatures.

My Review:
Oh man, this book! I enjoyed it, it sounded really great, but I was a bit worried, because it did have controversy, and it sounded a little high brow for me. And it was a little bit much at times, but it was a really great story!

Kya's had it rough. Her mom left, and slowly her older siblings left until it was just her and her dad. And then he was gone, and she was left alone to survive, and she's so young, too. So she learned to live in the marsh, and is doing pretty well for herself.

Watching the trial go down, well, people will be people, and they've judged her from the very beginning, not even trying to help her. That they think she's killed the golden boy, that's pretty on brand for them. 

That ending, with that reveal? That was a fantastic twist! I'm glad that it worked out that way, with that reveal when it did. And it's just very much a vibe of ironic from  Alanis Morissette's song that worked out for Kya. So I loved that! 

I had a great time reading this book, and now I really need to watch the movie! 

Author: Delia Owens 
Read: August 12th, 2022
Source: Bought 
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a SAC 2022 Book! 
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: August 14th 2018
5/5 Hearts
4/5 Books
4/5 Stars
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Friday, August 12, 2022

Magical Readathon: Orilium Update 18

So I read my next book for Magical Readathon: Orilium, and it was Where the Crawdads Sing which was for the prompt Courier Needed Quest, and I'll be reading Kate in Waiting next!

My Reading Journey:

A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon
Prompt Fulfilled: Inscription O
Started On: August 1st
Finished On: August 1st, 5:20 PM
Pages Read: 405

Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert
Prompt Fulfilled: The AWW Needs You Quest
Started On: August 1st
Finished On: August 1st, 9:40 PM
Pages Read: 496

Breaking Time by Sasha Alsberg
Prompt Fulfilled: Psionics & Divination O
Started On: August 3rd
Finished On: August 3rd, 9:50 PM
Pages Read: 352

The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
Prompt Fulfilled: Alchemy O
Started On: August 4th
Finished On: August 4th, 7:04 PM
Pages Read: 352

Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
Prompt Fulfilled: Elemental Studies O
Started On: August 4th
Finished On: August 4th, 9:29 PM
Pages Read: 348

Dare You to Lie by Amber Lynn Natusch
Prompt Fulfilled: Astronomy O
Started On: August 5th
Finished On: August 5th, 11:38 PM
Pages Read: 352

Lore Olympus: Volume Two by Rachel Smythe 
Prompt Fulfilled: Inscription Q
Started On: August 7th
Finished On: August 7th, 1:50 PM
Pages Read: 368

Final Heir by Faith Hunter
Prompt Fulfilled: Animal Studies O
Started On: August 7th
Finished On: August 7th, 9:44 PM
Pages Read: 464

Sugar Plum Spies by Jennifer Estep
Prompt Fulfilled: Inscription O
Started On: August 8th
Finished On: August 8th, 9:53 PM
Pages Read: 176

Dead Man's Hand by James J. Butcher
Prompt Fulfilled: Art of Illusion O
Started On: August 9th
Finished On: August 9th, 8:46 PM
Pages Read: 384

Dead Little Mean Girl by Eva Darrows
Prompt Fulfilled: Psionics & Divination Q
Started On: August 10th
Finished On: August 10th, 3:00 PM
Pages Read: 304

The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks
Prompt Fulfilled: Art of Illusion O
Started On: August 10th
Finished On: August 10th, 6:17 PM
Pages Read: 320

Marked by Stars by Forthright
Prompt Fulfilled: Art of Illusion Q
Started On: August 10th
Finished On: August 10th, 7:35 PM
Pages Read: 73

Followed by Thunder by Forthright
Prompt Fulfilled: Spells & Incantations O
Started On: August 10th
Finished On: August 10th, 9:12 PM
Pages Read: 94

The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow
Prompt Fulfilled: Artificery O
Started On: August 11th
Finished On: August 11th, 2:27 PM
Pages Read: 384

The Swan Riders by Erin Bow
Prompt Fulfilled: Shapeshifting O
Started On: August 11th
Finished On: August 11th, 9:55 PM
Pages Read: 384

Daughter by Kate McLaughlin
Prompt Fulfilled: Restoration O
Started On: August 12th
Finished On: August 12th, 5:49 PM
Pages Read: 336

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Prompt Fulfilled: Courier Needed Quest
Started On: August 12th
Finished On: August 12th, 10:03 PM
Pages Read: 400

Kate in Waiting by Becky Albertalli 
Prompt Fulfilled: Alchemy O
Started On: August 13th
Currently On: Page 0 of 400

Prompts Left: Alchemy Q, Alchemy D, Spells & Incantations Q, Elemental Studies Q, Elemental Studies D, Animal Studies O, Restoration Q, Restoration O, Restoration Q, Conjuration O, Conjuration Q, Demonology O, Lore O, Lore Q, Lore D, Animal Studies Q, Demonology O, Restoration O, Restoration Q, Spells & Incantations O, Alchemy O, Spells & Incantations O, Psionics & Divination D, Lore O, Alchemy Q, Restoration O, Restoration Q, Shapeshifting O, Art of Illusion Q, Art of Illusion D, Psionics & Divination O
Read: 18
Pages Read: 5992
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Magical Readathon: Orilium Update 17

So I read my next book for Magical Readathon: Orilium, and it was Daughter which was for the prompt Restoration O, and I'll be reading Where the Crawdads Sing next!

My Reading Journey:

A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon
Prompt Fulfilled: Inscription O
Started On: August 1st
Finished On: August 1st, 5:20 PM
Pages Read: 405

Court of the Vampire Queen by Katee Robert
Prompt Fulfilled: The AWW Needs You Quest
Started On: August 1st
Finished On: August 1st, 9:40 PM
Pages Read: 496

Breaking Time by Sasha Alsberg
Prompt Fulfilled: Psionics & Divination O
Started On: August 3rd
Finished On: August 3rd, 9:50 PM
Pages Read: 352

The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
Prompt Fulfilled: Alchemy O
Started On: August 4th
Finished On: August 4th, 7:04 PM
Pages Read: 352

Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
Prompt Fulfilled: Elemental Studies O
Started On: August 4th
Finished On: August 4th, 9:29 PM
Pages Read: 348

Dare You to Lie by Amber Lynn Natusch
Prompt Fulfilled: Astronomy O
Started On: August 5th
Finished On: August 5th, 11:38 PM
Pages Read: 352

Lore Olympus: Volume Two by Rachel Smythe 
Prompt Fulfilled: Inscription Q
Started On: August 7th
Finished On: August 7th, 1:50 PM
Pages Read: 368

Final Heir by Faith Hunter
Prompt Fulfilled: Animal Studies O
Started On: August 7th
Finished On: August 7th, 9:44 PM
Pages Read: 464

Sugar Plum Spies by Jennifer Estep
Prompt Fulfilled: Inscription O
Started On: August 8th
Finished On: August 8th, 9:53 PM
Pages Read: 176

Dead Man's Hand by James J. Butcher
Prompt Fulfilled: Art of Illusion O
Started On: August 9th
Finished On: August 9th, 8:46 PM
Pages Read: 384

Dead Little Mean Girl by Eva Darrows
Prompt Fulfilled: Psionics & Divination Q
Started On: August 10th
Finished On: August 10th, 3:00 PM
Pages Read: 304

The Lindbergh Nanny by Mariah Fredericks
Prompt Fulfilled: Art of Illusion O
Started On: August 10th
Finished On: August 10th, 6:17 PM
Pages Read: 320

Marked by Stars by Forthright
Prompt Fulfilled: Art of Illusion Q
Started On: August 10th
Finished On: August 10th, 7:35 PM
Pages Read: 73

Followed by Thunder by Forthright
Prompt Fulfilled: Spells & Incantations O
Started On: August 10th
Finished On: August 10th, 9:12 PM
Pages Read: 94

The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow
Prompt Fulfilled: Artificery O
Started On: August 11th
Finished On: August 11th, 2:27 PM
Pages Read: 384

The Swan Riders by Erin Bow
Prompt Fulfilled: Shapeshifting O
Started On: August 11th
Finished On: August 11th, 9:55 PM
Pages Read: 384

Daughter by Kate McLaughlin
Prompt Fulfilled: Restoration O
Started On: August 12th
Finished On: August 12th, 5:49 PM
Pages Read: 336

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Prompt Fulfilled: Courier Needed Quest
Started On: August 12th
Currently On: Page 0 of 400

Prompts Left: Alchemy O, Alchemy Q, Alchemy D, Spells & Incantations Q, Elemental Studies Q, Elemental Studies D, Animal Studies O, Restoration Q, Restoration O, Restoration Q, Conjuration O, Conjuration Q, Demonology O, Lore O, Lore Q, Lore D, Animal Studies Q, Demonology O, Restoration O, Restoration Q, Spells & Incantations O, Alchemy O, Spells & Incantations O, Psionics & Divination D, Lore O, Alchemy Q, Restoration O, Restoration Q, Shapeshifting O, Art of Illusion Q, Art of Illusion D, Psionics & Divination O
Read: 17
Pages Read: 5592
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