Maybe diving

After I finished Where the Crawdads Sing, I felt like I wasted my time trying to like a book that apparently a lot of people really enjoyed. The story immediately fell off at the end with a quick resolve time skip. I felt like I was still left with a lot of questions and nothing seemed believable for a book that was supposed to be considered realism.

I personally didn’t enjoy it on the first read, but I also think it has to do with reading it in a place where I wasn’t in the teenager mindset that everything in this world is corrupt. It probably would’ve resonated with me at 13-17, but I didn’t feel a connection to Holden’s mindset. I did think it was admirable how even though he experienced a lot of death in his life and went through horrible abuse, his only goal was to save children from the same trauma and be the catcher in the rye.