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Where The Crawfish Sing

Edit: The actual title is “Where the Crawdads Sing”. My Louisiana roots got the best of me. We’ve always called them crawfish.

I haven’t been doing a great job of sharing what I’ve been reading. I recently finished Where the Crawfish Sing. I’ve waited for months and months to get this one through the library online so I feel like I’m one of the last ones to read it.

We all like different type books but I loved this one. I was so tempted to skip ahead and listen to the end . . but I didn’t.

I put the Amazon link but I highly recommend you check out your local or state’s library loan system. There’s rarely a book I want to read that I can’t get through the library either as an ebook (I read on the Kindle) or audiobooks. I listen to the on my iPad or my tablet . . I think most any listening device should work.

There are all kinds of ways to read/listen to books for little or no cost and I love being able to do that.

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  1. Thanks for another recommendation. There are lots of holds on it at my library but one of these days I’ll get it. Along with Dr. Mary’s Monkey!!

  2. I read about this book somewhere else and placed a hold at the library in Tucson–I am currently #498 on 55 copies! I will eventually get to read it and that’s OK–like you I check my two library systems first before buying and if I buy I try to buy used.

  3. I read that book a few months ago. I loved it. One of the best I’ve read in a while. I wanted to finish but didn’t want it to end at the same time,

  4. The longest list I’ve been on recently was Circe, which was interesting and different. I was #45 when I reserved, and 7 copies, and it took maybe 2.5 months to get to me. I just put myself in the queue and I’m #348, and there are more than 30 copies in the county system. It’s going to be a while! I’m estimating 35 weeks, with three-week check-outs, if no one is overdue. Maybe less if people don’t keep all of them three weeks. But they will!

  6. Heard on the news today that ebooks now have to be re-purchased by the libraries on a yearly basis (as paper books would get lost or tattered from us and would eventually have to be replaced). So supposedly now they are worried that libraries will have less “copies” of e-books in their systems due to costs and that will mean longer wait times. Will be interesting to see. I work at a small village library and we can get most stuff on interlibrary loans. Our date due slips keep a tally at the bottom of how much you saved today and this year using the library. One lady (a Board Member) is over $4K right now. Of course she wouldn’t have purchased all those materials in real lift but it is shocking how fast it all adds up!

    • I’m not sure but I think it’s been that way for a while because when I talked to the Houston Public Library a while back, what I think I remember them telling me is that they buy the “rights” to the ebooks and audiobooks so what they have today, they may not have next month. I see how it hurts book sales.

    • I just realized that about an hour after I posted it, that I had the name wrong. Thanks.

  8. I also just finished this (really long waitlist, even with lots of copies). I have mixed feelings about it. It was compelling, and I read it right up, but the idea of a six-year-old taking care of herself (and completely alone from age 10), just didn’t seem remotely possible, I do like the way it affected her character and her view of the world and relationships, though!

    I also have a problem with the conclusion, that I won’t discuss here so as not to be a spoiler.

    As I said, mixed feelings!

  10. I agree with Rebecca in SoCal -certain events didn’t seem possible. For instance, the idea of a laboratory in the marshes didn’t fit at all. Where did the electricity, sewage come from if there was no connection to the town?
    I, however, did not read the middle third of the book. I read the first part and skipped to the end, missing the part that explains WHY. When I realized the nature of the WHY that was about to be explained, I chose not to continue reading that portion. Certain types of knowledge I just do not want to know about. So I skipped to the end and read about labs in the marshes and finished the book. Such a frightening knowledge left with the friend/lover. No one to share it with either.

  11. It was SO GOOD, a little hard to read at first, (such abuse!) but such a good book there is a reason it has been on the NY times best seller list for MONTHS!!! also it is her first book! and she is 70+ I know she has written some nature books w her husband but this is her first solo….. Amazing. and NO you are not the last to read it!

  12. My daughter bought me this book for Mother’s Day and couldn’t wait until I started it—I was trying to make it last, but as usual, once started I raced through it pretty fast! Great story and setting. I’d recommend it too

  14. I love a good audiobook. I just placed a hold at my library…I’m #276 on 40 copies. 🙂 It’s gonna be a while I think,
    Thanks for the recommendation.

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