episode 110 season 3
Crawdads & Dogs
"Crawdads": are explained as the synonym of the words crawfish and crayfish that is used to mean the aquatic animal that looks like a small lobster and lives in rivers and streams, can also be called crawdaddies..."Search & Rescue SAR Dogs": a domesticated carnivorous mammal that typically has a long snout, an acute sense of small, non retractable claws and a barking, howling or whining voice - in other words man's best friend! They also, spring into action assisting humans during difficult times. They track people lost in the wilderness or those lost after a natural disaster. These Search and Rescue or SAR dogs can find Alzheimer's patients who have wandered away from a care facility.
Todays show falls under the category of "READ" under my show brand EAT|READ|CREATE as I'm sharing two awesome books First Where the Crawdad's Sing by Delia Owens AND Second: The Search by Nora Roberts
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Recently I put a request out on my FB page in need of a book to read IMMEDIATELY. Don't you get this feeling, when you are climbing into bed at night and you're like UGH I forgot to download a book...or oh MAN I finished my book last night - I don't feel like TV... this is where I was at sooo - what's a girl to do but post on Social Media. here's two books that I've read recently and I had to share these with you. Where the crawdad's Sing was the first suggestion by Elaine, however many of the commented concurred that this was indeed a must read...The second was from one of my go to artists Nora Roberts, a quick easy read but with a twist that seemed like you could figure it out - but NOPE wrong...
Where the Crawdad's Sing by Delia Owens
Where the Crawdad's Sing we will review first:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENONMore than 6 million copies soldA Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club PickA Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade "I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!"--Reese Witherspoon"Painfully beautiful."--The New York Times Book Review
Where the Crawdad's Sing by Delia Owens Book Description:
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life--until the unthinkable happens.
Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.
What people are saying
There's quite a mixed bag of comments about this book on Amazon here's a couple that stand out and have the same feeling I have - out of the more than 65,000 reviews wait that's what it was when I looked at the time of preparing to read this book, there's more than 100,000 review now. I'll stick to the reviews that make this book even a more solid read:
1: Through the eyes of a scientist and the hand of a poet: Refreshing, if not remarkable to come across a work of fiction that sweeps one along from the first paragraph, speaking with the bold, brazen, and gentle voice of the poet, filtered through the keen and meticulous eyes of the scientist and nature-lover.
Owen delights and surprises in equal measure as her coming-of-age tale soars and plummets as briskly as the marsh grasses and the long-legged birds she so loves, celebrating the beauty and brutality of man and na...