April 2023 Discussion: The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek and The Bookwoman's Daughter

[Shea]

Please discuss your thoughts on either book here.

[Patty]

This is a pretty interesting website to learn more about our Troublesome Creek Book Woman book discussion.
I have really enjoyed these reads. Almost finished with the Daughter of ….and amazed that it is as good as the first! Tessa, can you put out a library suggestion of this for folks that want to know more? I had to Google "fetched on women" and this site came up.
https://www.appalachianhistory.net/20...

[Quintessa]

@Patty - posted the link to the library's Facebook event. thanks!

[Shea]

I really enjoyed this historical fiction novel both for information about the packhorse librarians and also the blue people of Kentucky. Richardson does a wonderful job putting us in Cussy Mary's shoes, chronicling her adventure and struggle as she delivers reading materials to the remote areas of Kentucky. The medical aspects of her disorder fascinated me. The book illustrated well the risk vs. benefit of treatment with medication and how important it is to consider an individual's tolerance for adverse events in the pursuit of "cure." The description of the way the people lived and the losses Cussy Mary endures are heartbreaking. I have already started the next book "The Bookwoman's Daughter.

[Patty]

It's good to hear your thoughts on the risks vs. benefit of treatments. I know you'll get alot out of the Daughter too. I tend to read our discussion books far ahead of the date to discuss just to be sure I finish so I had trouble recalling details. Plus the other two books I was reading or listening to were much more fact filled and heavy. Richardson wrote with such skill that I was emersed in the story. To become the heroine in a story your reading is a sure sign of a good read!