What To Read This Summer

Thinking about what to read this summer? Summer is a great time to catch up on your reading: whether it’s your favorite magazine, a classic beach novel or a self-help book.

No doubt, there are some awesome books out there that make for a great summer read including the New York Times Bestseller: Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.

Summer’s the perfect time to kick-back,  relax with a good book and glass of sweet tea and curl up on the couch, or on a lounge chair on the beach (or hammock in your backyard) and begin reading this mesmerizing story.

A Reese Witherspoon  Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick and a #1 New York Times Bestseller, described as  “painfully beautiful” by The New York Times Book Review this poignant book has received 5-stars on Amazon with more than 10,000 reviews!

Where the Crawdads Sing is: “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.”

The poetic prose used to tell a harsh and sometimes shockingly brutal story. Kya Clark is more than just a survivor. She is an unworldly, innocent sprite who nevertheless has a thirst for knowledge of the land that hides and protects her from those that would do her harm.

I thoroughly enjoyed every word of this beautifully crafted novel about survival and love set in the beauty of the North Carolina coast. It has everything I enjoy in a novel: poignant descriptions of the setting, a sweet love story combined with a bit of mystery.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll never guess the outcome. An amazing first novel by Delia Owens, Where The Crawdads Sing is a must-read for your summer reading list, and will soon be a major motion picture.

Delia Owens is a wildlife scientist and writer, based in Idaho. Her work has been published in numerous journals, including Nature, and The African Journal of Ecology. Her awards include the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing. She is the author of several nonfiction books about her work as a wildlife scientist in Africa, Cry of the Kalahari, The Eye of the Elephant, and Secrets of the Savanna. Her debut novel is entitled Where the Crawdads Sing (2018).