I look forward to chatting with you on Zoom tomorrow evening! The following are questions that we can use to generate discussion if necessary. Information on how to access Zoom will be sent separately. Yet Moyes is coy about two characters who could be gay maybe that’s a topic for another novel.The All Good Books group will meet online using Zoom tomorrow, Thursday, May 21, 2020, at 7 PM. The librarians risk community outrage as early proponents of sex education by delivering a book to women who ask about marital intimacy. The yearning devotion Sven has for marriage-averse Margery despite her attempts to keep him at bay, and the slow-burning passion between Alice and the man who owns the library building, are heart-rending and real. Moyes’ new book illustrates why she is a two-time winner of Romance Novel of the Year Award from the Romance Novelists’ Association. Margery is a moonshiner’s daughter, the child of an abusive home and a woman of few words but great warmth toward the people of the hollows – and the local mine’s fire chief, Sven Gustavsson. Moyes’ descriptions of the women’s travels to impoverished families are affectionate and so vivid, you can practically smell the smoke curling from chimneys. More: 'Pursuit' another creepy, suspenseful thriller from prolific master Joyce Carol OatesĪlice flings herself into delivering books as a way to avoid home and her deeply disapproving father-in-law. But life with Bennett proves even duller he shows little interest in his wife, either in or outside the marital bed. Alice fled a dull life in Britain into handsome Bennett’s arms. First to volunteer is Alice Van Cleve, the newlywed British wife of Bennett Van Cleve, whose father owns the local mining company. She reaches out for more women willing to saddle up horses to serve people whose circumstances won’t allow them to make it to town for books. Margery O’Hare is the fearless leader of the Horseback Librarians of Kentucky. Rather than the story of a single romance, as in her best-selling 2012 hit “Me Before You,” “Giver” is a love story of an unlikely group of women who defy society’s norms to deliver library books to people in the mountains of Kentucky during the Great Depression, a real-life program launched by President Franklin D. The thwack of a book striking a man’s head, the crack of a gunshot and an escape on horseback signal the stellar start to Jojo Moyes’ new book, “The Giver of Stars” (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 400 pp., ★★★½ out of four stars).

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