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After reading the Me before you Trilogy and loved them. I didn’t know what to expect by The Giver of Stars. I shouldn’t have worried because this such an amazing book. Set in America’s depression and based on true events regarding The Horseback Librarians of Kentucky which was started by Eleanor Roosevelt. Where women enriched people lives by delivering books to all walks of life, to read and educate themselves.
Alice Wright leaves her stuffy life in England and marries American Bennet van Cleve, ...more
Alice Wright leaves her stuffy life in England and marries American Bennet van Cleve, ...more
The Giver of Stars was such a wonderful ride. Historical fiction inspired by the pack horse librarians of 1930s Kentucky, it tells of the lives of 5 women who come together as strangers and end up devoted friends.
There’s was not a story I didn’t enjoy in this novel. From the main ladies - Alice and Marjorie - to the supporting women, Jojo Moyes told their stories so well. I cared about the lives of each and every one of them.
There’s was not a story I didn’t enjoy in this novel. From the main ladies - Alice and Marjorie - to the supporting women, Jojo Moyes told their stories so well. I cared about the lives of each and every one of them.
Enjoyed reading the story of the packhorse librarians of Kentucky and of women trying to pave their own ways at a time / place where it wasn’t exactly welcomed.
This was based on the real life horse riding librarians that operated in the Appalachians, mostly in the 1930s. It is basically a predictable romance made more interesting by being based on true events. The story has characters who, unlikely in the 1930s, have modern attitudes for women's equality and racial injustices. (The men cook and keep house). For me that made it very unrealistic. I think in real life the women might be able to keep their jobs, but they would also be doing all the housewo
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