The Power of Inner Strength in This Year's Most Popular Books.
Its been a while since I had the time to share what is being read and enjoyed in the Duxbury Library, as well as, in my own reading experiences. I have made notes of a number of interesting genres, books, and topics that have passed through circulation and look forward to sharing them over the coming months. This year Educated by Tara Westover Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens are still our most popular reads, especially with Duxbury's over 24 book clubs who have registered with the circulation desk. Both the memoir, Educated, and the fiction story, Where the Crawdads Sing , are stories of self discovery. Common to both stories are strong girls being raised in a environment of fear and isolation. They both push caring relationships away due to a distrust built from abusive family relationships, yet both women grab onto the instinct to persevere. They find hope and confidence through self-education and apprehensive explorations of the outside world. Questioning their c