2019: #35 – Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)

I thought this was a solid read that was maybe a bit over-hyped. Also, if you have difficulty reading about abused children, this may not be for you. The story starts out in 1952 with 6-year-old Kya watching her mother walk away, never to return. Before long, the rest of her siblings follow, escaping the wrath of their ne’er-do-well drunkard father. Kya is abandoned by

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2019: #33 – All We Ever Wanted Was Everything (Janelle Brown)

For the Miller family, mo’ money definitely equals mo’ problems, because after patriarch Paul’s stock options make him an obscene amount of money, he quickly files for divorce and runs off with wife Janice’s tennis partner. He then disappears for most of the book, but that one decision has wide-reaching ripples. The Miller women are a mess. Janice, caught unaware by Paul’s decision, begins soothing

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