Delia Owens | AUTHORS BEHAVING BADLY

[@mothiestman4995]

As soon as he saw the trailer, my incredibly Southern and non-judgmental father just scoffed and went "crawdads don't sing".

[@CowboyJonah]

What a guy 😭

[@sarahbevc2434]

Authors Behaving Badly expectation: rude, arrogant authors, authors attacking readers Authors Behaving Badly reality: murderers It surprises me everytime.

[@angelaholmes8888]

It doesn't surprise me

[@Saphia_]

First time on the channel and well, nice to know it's a regular occurrence.

[@taylorgayhart9497]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@aleksandrac9335]

Method writing

[@wirhannah]

Before hearing about the author's involvement in that murder one of the issues I had with Crawdads is how the main character just suddenly loses her southern accent when she becomes 'educated' - there was no reason for her to do that. Also writing a book about a murder when implicated in one was...a choice.

[@PriyaPans]

You know what they say.... Write what you know. /S

[@bluegreyflowers9714]

I had no idea about the murder shit, the main reason me and my mother hated the book was that it was a horrible representation of the area. You see my mother grew up in the area that was written about and the geography is just horrible. She had no idea where things were in relation to each other in real life

[@stormraiders1172]

Its a story…its the plot that matters…

[@frogfrog7736]

@@stormraiders1172 it's a story... worldbuilding also matters just an fyi..

[@stormraiders1172]

@@frogfrog7736 to say you hate a story completely based of just the world building is just idiotic, and um fyi…after my two days of reading the book i can safely say the world building was phenomenal, maybe try picking up a book for once.

[@frogfrog7736]

@@stormraiders1172 dude if someone describes a place you lived/grew up in incorrectly to a point where it is very noticeable and it takes you out of the immersion that is a perfectly valid reason to dislike a book. How about you pick up a book and keep quiet instead of trying to police other peoples opinions because they didn't like a book that you personally enjoyed, yeah?

[@stormraiders1172]

@@frogfrog7736 eh fair enough

[@zvikomboreromukamba3389]

😢I am so disturbed. I'm Zimbabwean and I travel to and fro Zambia frequently. Zambian bookstores sell that woman's merchandise and I'm sure people are unaware she is this racist and murderous. I'll call it what it is that is colonial behaviour, using Africans to further white interests

[@teslashark]

Yeah, a lot of supposed animal protection organizations are basically fronts for government and corporation paramilitaries that take over land for money. Some people they fight are actual poachers and terrorists, others are are just villagers in the wrong place.

[@candaceuncontained4455]

This is wild! The fact we don't hear about this and the movie happened just goes to show how little the U.S. cares about people on the African continent. How often do you get cease and desist letters from authors for this series? lol I'd guess every time you do a new video. This is such an important series.

[@ReadswithRachel]

So far I haven’t gotten ANY. Which is great. But I’m not worried about it. I have two really fantastic lawyers.

[@zkkitty2436]

This is the most horrifying thing about this. White people go off to "exotic" places, cause massive amounts of harm to the people living there, and then fuck off back to their own countries once they're in danger. Killing poachers is not acceptable, despite the harm they do, because they are literally poor people with few options trying to survive. Instead of doing anything to change the conditions that lead people to poach, people like this live their selfish vigilante fantasies about "making a difference" when it seems all they know how to do is create more harm. White people audacity is exhausting.

[@LunaMoth_Love]

I work at a library and one of my coworkers HATES Where the Crawdads Sing but it's super popular. Every time it comes in she just rolls her eyes in disgust. I never knew this, though!

[@horrorfanatic6990]

Wow…I had no idea about the whole story. I was told that she and her husband killed a known poacher trying to protect an elephant. They made it sound like a poacher was actively killing an elephant to take its tusks, so I used to be on the Owens’ side, thinking they rescued an animal. Thank you for this video! I’m glad to know the truth that what I was told was wrong. Now I know it wasn’t a known poacher and it was only a theory they had, and the extent of the murder was horrible. Drowning the possible poacher in a bayou, with no actual evidence :( that’s horrible.

[@hannahspivey3780]

A little off topic but for some reason I was under the impression that Where the Crawdads sing was a WAY older book so I was shocked when you said 2018. I swear I had heard of the book way before then and it was like "an old classic". I must be confusing it with something else because I swear I thought the book was way older than 2018 😂

[@christianevrye]

Late to this convo but I thought the same!!! Before watching I could've sworn it was like Catcher In The Rye era at the latest

[@LadyKnightMare]

Me too! I didn’t think it was super old but I swear I thought it came out when I was in middle or high school or something. I remember seeing the movie trailer and thinking about how it was coming out so long after the book. Apparently I was very wrong!

[@abbie_joan]

it's the name...it has very old time vibes when I first heard of the book I thought it was some kind of coming of age story and was kinda disappointed that it was basically a supernatural romance without the supernatural part

[@Chonk_enthusiest]

Me too! I watched the film and really liked it (till the very last twist) so I decided to research the book a bit but it isn't even a decade old 😭 I felt like I was going a bit crazy. I never read about the author however so I missed out on all this shifty stuff going on in the background

[@angelaholmes8888]

I was considering reading this book but once I heard about delia I changed my mind

[@ReadswithRachel]

i've heard it isnt very good anyways so i doubt youre missing much!

[@Lemonade_Stand_]

I've heard it's very slow.

[@lua_ferraz]

"Twitter, where I learn a lot of things I wish I didn't know" -- this should be their motto because TRUE! This whole story still baffles me because it feels like a parallel reality. It's unbelievable that her book is still so popular--and that it got a movie AFTER all of this was disclosed. I really can't wrap my head around it.

[@mousyreese]

Rachel it’s back on the best seller list this week. I no joke screamed. I’m so tired of seeing it when I update the NYT Bestseller list every week at my work 🙃

[@mousyreese]

I haven’t read it either but I have been told by a coworker that it uses racist stereotypes and uses the “n” word. So no thank you.

[@melaniereine3378]

@@mousyreese yes it does. And the whole thing's incredibly juvenile and surface-level as well. Like when a group of boys calls the MC's friend the n word, the MC, who's still a young girl at the time, somehow beats them up? and scares them away? And then that's it? I'm surprised it passed through editing, they probably thought it would add some "authenticity" but idk, there really was no need for it.

[@VickiWeavil]

Also, one cannot drive from eastern NC, where this book is supposedly set (although much of it bears no resemblance to that area) to Asheville, NC (in the mountains) in less than 6-7 hours, yet in this (totally inaccurate) book they do it in an hour or two. As someone who has lived in NC for many years, and also writes one series set in the state, I really dislike this thing being promoted as being in any way an honest depiction of NC. (Not to mention, from what I've seen in excerpts, the dialects used are totally inaccurate and cringey as well. And yes, racist). So many things wrong with this book. The possible murder connection is definitely the worst, but there's so much more. I have no idea WHY this book is so popular.

[@benjisaac]

Sorry but doesn’t she go to Greenville? Idk how far that is from the marsh but Greenville is decidedly eastern NC

[@VickiWeavil]

@@benjisaac She may go to Greenville in the movie (didn't see it) but in the book they talk about going to Asheville, which is MUCH farther.

[@benjisaac]

@@VickiWeavil idk I read a summary of the book before the movie and it says Greenville (both wikipedia and sparknotes) but granted I didn’t check my physical copy bc I didn’t think it would be important - but isn’t there someone whose sibling and mom went to asheville to buy them a bike or something and died in a wreck? that could’ve been the asheville reference but I didn’t think it ever said that was only a few hours away

[@benjisaac]

could’ve pulled the bike thing from a whole different book

[@VickiWeavil]

@@benjisaac Well, I'm really just referencing what others have said. I didn't read the book myself -- actually, I tried, but it didn't engage me. Which doesn't mean it's terrible, just that it didn't work for me. But several reviewers have mentioned the Asheville thing, so I think it must be in there. (With mention that the trip wasn't that far, which it actually is). The other aspects are related to the marsh -- the location is not really right, or the description of the marsh either, for NC. The movie filmed in Louisiana; I think? Very different environment.

[@allisoneuph1]

I remember working at BN and this book flew off the shelves. I didn’t get the hype. This video blew my mind

[@sophiaaldous3199]

Great series, Rachel. Another aspect of this case is the reality that many poachers in Africa have few economic choices to make a living, so hunting illegally for profit/meat can sometimes be the only available option to them. I’m not saying that the killing of rare animals isn’t sad or shouldn’t be stopped, but it’s very telling of our privilege and material comfort that we can finger wave at other people in different countries for surviving, while we have never had to worry about breaking the law to feed ourselves or our families. And to downright murder someone for poaching? The punishment does not fit the crime, and for white Americans to swoop in and deliver vigilante justice is yuck, yuck, yuck.

[@tndyamond2]

I watched the movie and then found out about her. I was watching because I like Reese Witherspoon. Also My eyes kept going to White Rage and the Viola Davis autobiography. Love a person open to learning, understanding, and diversity!

[@inkayork]

Yikes! What a ride. That'll teach me for abandoning twitter for a year. I used to get all my book drama there, but it does horrible things to my productivity. Thanks for picking this shit up so I don't have to 🤣

[@va1kyrieshade979]

I'm so glad I checked out Where the Crawdad's Sing from my library. At the time, it's because I thought the book itself was not the greatest and undeserving of the hype it was getting, but now I'm especially glad I did not line this woman's pockets. Also Dark and Shallow Lies is better in almost every way, great alternative read

[@s.y.k.a1912]

I bought the book waaay before I went googling about the author. I read about the controversy and it made me uncomfortable but I read it anyway. I love the descriptive writing style of the swamp and wildlife Owens wrote, but the obvious racism, the weird and awkward murder mystery, the terrible yet predictable ending, and how the book is somehow inspired/based from the murder case kinda took me out. And while reading it, I was trying not to cringe at some parts, and I constantly reminding people whenever they're trying to read WTCS, they have to remember the icky behaviours this author has done.

[@rose_and_thorns]

I have a coworker who read and loved this book a couple years ago (pre-Covid and quarantine) and she kept bugging me to read it, but TBH the plot sounded dumb as fuck to me. Now I'm extra glad I never did because if I had owned it when I first heard about this shit late last year or whenever, I would have had to tear it up and flush it down the toilet.

[@beepboopbipbop]

As someone from the south I’m so glad we as a society moved on from the summer in the southern bayou mystery genre, it became so disingenuous and boring after awhile. Half the authors didn’t even know what they were talking about.

[@meganvansickle8798]

I read it as a friend recommended it and wanted to see the movie with me. I found out about the murder literally the day I started reading it. I thought it was an okay book, but creepy that there are so many similarities between her life and the main characters. There were also a lot of illogical things that happened in both the book and the movie that definitely took me out of the book a bit

[@mostobnoxiouscorpse]

I unfortunately read the book and I absolutely hate it. The author seems to also see nothing wrong with grooming and portray it as a great love story. I'm sorry but no 19 year old should be sexually interested in a 14/15 year old girl.

[@mostobnoxiouscorpse]

@@crcurran This is really not a valid argument. She's writing fiction. The least she could do is show it as something that turns out to be negative, if she cared that much about historical accuracy, but instead she romantisized the hell out of it. I really don't mind reading about horrid things, as long as the author acknowledges them as such and doesn't make them out to be something positive.

[@juliabondi8889]

Reminder: poaching sucks but most poachers (as in the ones actually out there hunting) do what they do out of poverty and desperation. Literally torturing and murdering anyone you suspect is a poacher is just cruelty and NOT the way to solve these things (particularly if you’re white foreigners in Africa commanding a paramilitary group). This is why white saviorism is so harmful. It’s different from white people wanting to help people of color, it’s white people using real issues as an excuse to power trip and act like they know better than everyone actually affected. Also, the pattern of certain white people caring so much about animals while treating other (often nonwhite) humans like dirt is disturbing.

[@SkySpiral8]

Well-said! People make so many assumptions based on their own experiences in a very different society.

[@taylorgayhart9497]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@SmartStart24]

Thank you for actually addressing this. So many of the comments were people just bitching about how stupid or inaccurate her book is. Where are we as a society where I see more anger about a fictional book than the murdering of a potentially innocent man on camera??

[@felixe2007]

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. I'm a huge animal lover and poaching is awful, but even if they knew for sure that this man was a poacher that wouldn't justify *murder.* Can't believe someone actually recorded it for a documentary!

[@theMyRadiowasTaken]

​@@SmartStart24theyre probably upset about that too, just making the point "her book wasnt good anyway"

[@yassvaritaass]

I know I’m late to this video, but I’m so glad to see someone talking about this! This book was in the recommended reading in my last years of high school, and somehow, a few friends and I found out about her issues. We were furious that no one else seemed to know, and refused to read the book.

[@nicoleshan6410]

Oh, Zambia knows Why for years they've said That I was guilty as sin And sleep in a liar's bed But the sleep comes fast And I'll meet no ghosts ~ Delia Owens back in 2010.

[@dizzydaydreamwishes]

Aren't those just the Taylor Swift lyrics?!

[@nicoleshan6410]

@@dizzydaydreamwishes Yes, they are... I just tried to make a joke.

[@dizzydaydreamwishes]

@@nicoleshan6410 Of course 🤦 sorry, it went right over my head ✈️🤷🛩️ It's a cute joke 😂

[@BooksToAshes]

I've been seeing SO many people talking about this book on booktube lately (mostly the smaller booktubers, I don't think the bigger ones would get away with reading it without getting backlash). I have no idea how it's getting so much praise when all the info about it is very openly talked about. Yikes. Edit: Also like to add I love animals, dislike poachers, but I don't think this is the way to go at ALL.

[@_Kuma_]

School aged kids are like petri dishes… hope you feel better soon!

[@writermichelletoro]

i've heard about this before and every time i hear more about it i just literally cannot believe this happened

[@Financiallyfreeauthor]

My dad grew up in North Carolina and he really liked the book. He said it felt very accurate to the feeling of NC at that time.

[@JayeEllis]

I don't think any country has a statute of limitations on murder.

[@cjandrews6967]

Love your Authours behaving Badly series

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thank you!!

[@kc_lee_ann]

Oh no! I recently found your channel and I am loving it but I am half way through this book and it’s the first non-fantasy book I’ve enjoyed in awhile! I’m nervous to watch this video when I finish it 😢

[@agathaharkness399]

"trespassing" and they're just roaming their own land lmao ok😭👌🏾

[@fathleen3441]

I got the book as a gift the year I think in like 2019 because it was so popular but it honestly never sounded that interested to me and I was in college at the time, so I never read it and it's just been accumulating dust on my bookshelf. I guess that's where it will stay lol Edit: I just reread this comment 2 months after originally writing it and holy shit I must have been stoned out of my mind when I wrote it. How did anyone comprehend the beginning of it lol

[@powerpuff4ever]

I never knew this but it makes me feel a little better to have hated the ending of this book so much. I assumed an editor made her add in a cheap twist because they thought it would make it more marketable as a thriller instead of literary fiction. Seems like the twist was all her though

[@Ghostgirl28]

I’m not going to lie I loved this book and the movie knowing about the murder makes me feel gross. I don’t see myself reading this or watching it again

[@mglarson5936]

I also read Dark and Shallow Lies and really enjoyed it!

[@JayeEllis]

I could have sworn this book was on my high school reading list, but I graduated a number of years before it was published... Mandela effect!

[@woulfisk]

damn, wish i had seen this before we read the book in my english class. i guess what i can do now is to tell my teacher to at least think about not introducing that book to the new classes

[@resourcesedu1676]

Love you Delia Owens. Great research scientist and preservationist of wildlife. Great book, great movie!❤

[@ReadswithRachel]

Delia isn’t reading these comments babe

[@spottedgecko113]

Wow okay. From what I've gathered from Where The Crawdads Sing, the plot is about someone being accused of a murder, only for the book to end with the implication that the main character DID murder that person. That's a little.. yeah.

[@motherbipsy960]

I was expecting some typical Karen shiiiiii but MAN. I was actually thinking of seeing that too, so I appreciate the recommendation.

[@sleepylit]

Idk why but the comment "They took heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad too seriously." iykyk

[@verawells7325]

I feel you on the perpetual illness due to school aged kids!

[@teatimetarotuk]

That 'Crawdads' book was legitimately one of the biggest piles of dog poo I have ever read.

[@bottompercy]

I never read the book, but i actually really liked the movie all the way up until the ending. It just could have been so much better and they fumbled it soooooo hard. I had no idea about any of this tho

[@jasmineijo]

Wow what an insane story

[@ReadswithRachel]

Right?!

[@susannahlewis8464]

This feels like a tad more than bad behavior, haha.

[@ReadswithRachel]

It def is but the series being named this way lets me encompass everything from Twitter tirades to murder

[@katherinedonovan974]

Wow, now I'm terrified. WTF? Now I don't want to see that movie based on the book. Geez Louise, that's creepy!

[@SavageMinnow]

I ordered this book yesterday... Glad I ordered used, but still 😖

[@genericwhitefemale6752]

Did you like it?

[@equinoxcrow]

I have heard of this before and have tried to tell other people about it so they won't support this author but only got horrible horrible racist remarks about the victims and that how they, the white couple, were doing what the 'lazy' locals weren't doing. I hate humanity sometimes...

[@rosebetitwrites3447]

I HATE this book! One has to pretty much completely suspend disbelief for at least 75 % of the time. There is SO MUCH in the book that absolutely would not happen. And the weird random recitation of (bad, in my opinion) poetry was so damn irritating. The writer’s shameless attempt at writing in Ebonics for the 2 Black characters is SO DAMN CRINGE. It’s so irritating to see this book getting all these (undeserved, in my opinion) accolades.

[@ReadswithRachel]

I’ll never understand how it’s so popular

[@rosebetitwrites3447]

@@ReadswithRachel I know! Right? I'm always glad to see I'm not alone on this.

[@shareetz3154]

good lord, these people sound absolutely TERRIFYING. i'm glad i never spent a single cent on this woman or her book.

[@herewegoagain4033]

I actually really liked this book and read it before I knew any of this. Idk I just related to the main character.

[@VerityBooks]

I remember all this info going around Twitter months ago, and people just ??? Forgot?????? I don’t get it. Reading the Wikipedia summary was good enough, no need to watch the movie

[@carolinac7628]

I literally just watched this movie last night haha

[@TheAbigailDee]

Whoops accidentally did a murder 😜

[@natesmith6871]

That's not very girlboss of you

[@bealoverchooselovegivelove]

I guessed the whole plot when I read what the book was about. When I heard what she was being accused of, I believed the allegations. (The audacity???) Lol told everyone who brought up the book.

[@Topdoggie7]

All right I'm going to be real with you, this book has been shoved in my face for the last I don't know how long. I literally, literary see this book constantly shoved at me, constantly pushed in the focal point of libraries, and I don't know what it's about. I hear it's inaccurate, I hear it's slow, but I want to know what is this book about? I could go on Wikipedia and read it but I bet you Wikipedia is probably like "and then a murder happens, the end".

[@ReadswithRachel]

The book is about a girl who had a very dysfunctional family and basically raised herself in a swamp and then she gets involved with two different guys and one of them is a jerk and he ends up murdered and everybody think she did it but she says she’s innocent and she ends up not being convicted of his murder and she marries the other guy she was interested in and then at the end of the book after her death he finds proof that she actually murdered the guy

[@Topdoggie7]

@@ReadswithRachel okay I was like oh she didn't kill the guy and then the twist ending as she did kill the guy, and the guy she gets with finds out. I guess that's one way to end a love triangle?

[@ReadswithRachel]

Basically lmao

[@taylorgayhart9497]

My sister read it and said “it’s just depressing the whole time”.

[@chrisz7494]

In context, she finds out he was just using her for fun, and then when she stands her ground against him, he tries to rape her, so she pushes him off a decommissioned lighthouse a little while later. It makes sense in context. Just leaving this comment here so you don't have to slog through the whole book yourself lol

[@TangentialTif]

First, I also have school aged kids and also walking pneumonia, go figure. Secondly, I read this book for a book club and HATE, HATE, HATED it. The main character should not have been able to survive. She never really acknowledged or appreciated the help she received, and oh the racism. Don’t even get me started on the stupid ass ending or the whole “mystery” plot. I’m sure I was more angered by this book than I would have been because we had agreed on a cozy mystery book and settled on this bullshit. Anyway, it turns out I’m still super angry two years later.

[@KittyxKult]

I was going to read Crawdads bc the blurb sounded polyamorous but nope.

[@ReadswithRachel]

I wish it was! Iron Widow and Into The Ravenous Dark are two polyamorous books I recommend tho ♥️

[@Jenny-vm3yu]

I’ve only seen the movie (which I enjoyed) but upon watching this video it seems Kaya is a blatant self-insert. Seeing as the MC is a naturalist/ basically a zoologist who was involved in a murder. Now this has been revealed about the author. Hmmm 🤔

[@lighthouse6748]

I now regret renting 'Where the Crawdads Sing,' and listening to its Audio. Delia, Mark, & Christopher Owens need to Confess & Repent. Truth shall prevail on Judgment Day! ⚖ Something about Delia always rang false!

[@rosykindbunny1313]

Why am I not surprised? Honestly, I couldn't even finish the book. It moved so slow and was sooooo boring! I need something more exciting!

[@mcjordie]

💜💜💜

[@katemurray8201]

Watched the movie. Will not be reading the book.

[@bookcaseofdoom]

This is a wild story, but also - THAT'S what this book is about??? It sounds kinda horrible. Why did I think it was some soft literary fiction? P.s. I'mwatching this whole playlist and I'm very entertained (and educated!), Thank you so much.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Thanks for watching!

[@ShotgunsAndSalt]

How did I not know she helped kill someone. Now I feel bad for buying her book and watching the movie.

[@gissellemildredpaulo5112]

This reminds me of Who is maud dixon. . .

[@BookmarkChronicles]

I unfortunately read this before I joined the book community. It's not that great. Ending was predictable

[@BonnieLiedtka]

📚

[@myvluv]

I read Where the Crawdads sing as an audiobook with a terribly affected Southern accent. And it was BORING. And now this. There do seem to be a lot of similarities between her and the character too. Yuck.

[@NativeLadyBookWarrior]

😟😮😯😲

[@102483989]

Its known now that she actually was no where near the area at the time of this murder.

[@ReadswithRachel]

I said it in the video but I guess I’ll repeat myself: she’s wanted *for questioning* because her husband is a suspect.

[@102483989]

@@ReadswithRachel ah ok yes, so nothing to do with her

[@ReadswithRachel]

Her being wanted for questioning =/= “nothing to do with her”. I’m not wanted for questioning because I don’t have anything to do with what happened or any information. She can’t say the same.

[@102483989]

@@ReadswithRachel yes indeed as it turns out

[@ReadswithRachel]

That reply does not make any sense considering she is, in fact, still wanted for questioning.

[@missilluminati3389]

I know I'm a bad person but I just can't pity poachers

[@Lemonade_Stand_]

I have 0 desire to read this book. Ive heard it's very white saviour-esque and not to mention the whole business with her ex-husband is beyond sketchy. Also as an added bonus stupid swifty did the sound track for the movie so nope nope nope. Nothing about the book or the movie appeals to me.

[@nicoleshan6410]

It's just one song,and even as Taylor Swift casual fan I found the song dull.

[@jeffreymiddleton4063]

She is kya in the film the heroine yup I figured it out and her measur8ng kyas lovers oh my God after r3ading the book and seeing the movie twenty three tim3s this girl is saying it's autobiographical

[@ReadswithRachel]

What?

[@nalcarya]

The movie was really great though, saw it with my mom a few weeks ago (it just released in my country), and I am going to read the book once I get the chance even with this newly acquired knowledge. Separate art from author and such. Also as far as I've been able to gather she herself is really just a person of interest, possibly covering for her son/husband. Which is bad, don't get me wrong, but I really don't see it as a reason to disallow them their profession.

[@ReadswithRachel]

Separating art from artist isn’t really a thing, to me. And in this particular case I don’t believe it’s possible. I can’t disallow anyone their profession.

[@nalcarya]

@@ReadswithRachel Maybe I chose the phrase badly, I'm not a native speaker after all. Also I think I might've been conflating the comment section with what you actually said, but a lot of people are plain shaming anyone who enjoys a work of fiction when the author is a despicable person, and I'm not for it is what I really meant to express. Either way I don't need agree with all of your opinions to greatly enjoy your content :)

[@ReadswithRachel]

I appreciate that ♥️

[@taylorgayhart9497]

FYI Resse Witherspoons company has actively worked to bury this story as much as possible, because they don’t want people knowing about it. That’s gross, and I don’t even want to support her after that. Think about it this way, would you read a book written by Brian Laundrie’s mother 20 years from now? He wasn’t convicted and she wasn’t either, but we all know he killed someone and his mother helped him get away with it. The ONLY reason Reese and company felt like it was acceptable to give this woman more money for her book (which also btw was also the reason for the rerelease which made the author even richer) is because the victim was an African man, and not a white girl or someone that Reese and company valued.

[@taylorgayhart9497]

@@ReadswithRachel this is how I feel, if I can read/listen/watch without giving more money to the person, that’s one thing. But if they’re profiting off it, I will not engage, because that telling the person (and the industry they’re a part of) that whatever the did/said was okay.

[@jeffreymiddleton4063]

Have to watch Delia be called a killer because it's on the news read the book in my mother's book club it appeals to the female s point of view 👌 👍 😀 💙 😄 😊 👌 👍 😀 💙 she's a zoologist so the tone of the book makes 100 percent sense marsh not swamp awitch or a scientist shexloves feathers birds of prey a hawk snow geese who she shares with tate who she knew as a kid it stays in order of events well done

[@nancyleahy2664]

Please stop constantly touching your hair. Sooo distracting!!

[@ReadswithRachel]

No 💜

[@gliscorpropagandaaccount1764]

sounds like a you problem, Nancy