In August we read 'The Tattoist of Auschwitz' and had a Zoom meeting. Nobody wrote up our thoughts.
In September, because of the Coronavirus lockdown, the library didn't supply books, so we elected to read 'Where the Crawdads Sing' and again had a Zoom meeting.
MS liked it, thought that it was exellent, liked the characters, liked the story, thought that it was believable. LS also liked the story and the descriptions and has even recommended it to another book club.
CW thought that every cliche in the book was in this book, used very nicely. The friendly helpful Negro, the Atticus Finch lawyer, the bad boy and the good boy, lone girl makes good, all there. Very good, and worked well. As he said, the Author got away with it.
Good descriptions of marsh life, I think he meant the wildlife. Swamp Justice is what he called it, and was shocked that she got away with it.
AW said that the book spent a lot of time explaining why it wasn't possible, and then Kya did it.
Chase was not a nice man.
RP thought that kya looked at the situation like it was the animal world, remarking how the praying mantis ate her male partner.
OL thought that it ended like 'Transcriptions'. She enjoyed reading it, but criticisms came later. As Maggie said, you had to suspend disbelief while reading it. I compared it to a Horatio Alger novel.
Some of us though that it might have been Tate that murdered Chase.
The people were real individuals.
Kya was a victim of other peoples cowardice her whole life.
Grits, it wa siggested, were like Quinoa. Actually they are a porrige made of fried cornmeal, commonly eaten for breakfast.
Her diet was discussed - Where did she get vitamins, she was lucky not to lose all her teeth at an early age, except that she didn't have sugar!
We had some discussion about whether this sort of thing could have happened in Britain, and wondered whether there were children in the wreckage of the East End of London post-war when there was very poor housing.
Marks: basically 9 with a couple of lower ones.
