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Mike A. asked this question about The Giver of Stars:
According to today's Buzzfeed https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomiobaro/jojo-moyes-the-giver-of-stars-kim-richardson-bookwoman-of it sounds very much like this book represents a significant plagiarism. Who has read both Book Woman, by Kim Michele Richardson which came out first and Mrs. Moyes' book, and what is your take on this controversy?
Brandy B I've read them both and I read them both knowing the controversy and they just aren't all that similar. The buzzfeed article explaining how similar th…moreI've read them both and I read them both knowing the controversy and they just aren't all that similar. The buzzfeed article explaining how similar they are has a lot of inicidents of "and both got a quilt as a gift" I mean apalacia is known for quiliting... so... "And they both mentioned this book/magazine" which was one of the most popular books/magazines at the time.

The less likely similarties are there are two black characters who work for the library which feels very much like a modern writer putting a minority in where there wasn't one in history... I think it worked better in the Richardson work to show how apart Cussie felt but far more realistic in Giver of Stars that this wasn't a worker who was ever interacting with the patrons.

Two men (who are not named Hillman either one of them Hillman is what they are... IE they are men who live and work in the hills) see a woman on her own and bad things happen... I mean that's the world.... The incidents of the attacks are very different as are how they are handled in the aftermath.

This could be more but it really, really, really feels like two writers going to the same trope well. Not one writer copying another. These books just aren't that much alike at all.

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