Bout Update and Synopsis Challenge

Bout of Books 20

Day 1

I read very little on Monday, I kept getting interrupted. Didn't even manage 100 pages.

The Boys by Toni Sala, Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
 read pages 63-143. I started this last week, hope to finish it this week.

My Synopsis Challenge is for a book I finished on Sunday. Challenge: Synopsis Rewrite ("...rewrite the synopsis of a book from another character's point of view. Make it their story instead.)

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
It lives in the depths of Blackwater. It has lived there for longer than remembering. It likes to come to the surface from time to time. Years? Decades? Centuries? Time has little meaning, It doesn't know the 1800s are nearly over. It only knows that whenever It breaks the surface there are always more people with better ways of seeing a creature who can't bear to be seen. It only wants to rise to the surface, flop over, and feel the belly warming sun. But sunny days are the worst. So many people come out to the watery verge. No, best to come up at night, if at all.

This time is the worst ever. It means no harm but senses danger lurking everywhere. Not from the ring of children with their useless incantations, nor from the clergyman with his even more useless prayers, nor the drunks, nor the old codger skinning moles, not even from the silly mannish woman who thinks she can study It. It can set decoys to fool them. But the seeming weak ones are the ones to fear--the strange boy whose sight is too keen and the sickly woman whose hearing is too sharp. Will they be the ones to finish off It?

Or is It still lurking, waiting?