Four Seasons Book Club for Adults
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
The DB Outreach team warmly invites all adults to take part in our quarterly virtual book club!
Join us for one, two, or as many of the discussions as you’d like throughout the year—choose the books that spark your interest and enjoy meaningful conversation with fellow readers!
Join us this Winter – Thursday, February 12th at 8:30pm ET/ 7:30pm CT / 6:30pm MT / 5:30pm PT
If you are interested in joining us, please email us at dbinfo@discoverybound.org, and we will answer any questions and/or add you to the participant list for this book. The Zoom information for the book discussion will be sent approximately one week prior to our meeting.
There will be an opportunity for you to share your favorite passages or moments from the book with the group (consider marking them in your book or writing it down along with the page number).
Book Selection: The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Goodreads ratings: 4.29 stars |
Book overview:
From the author of Me Before You, set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond.
Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically.
The leader, and soon Alice’s greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who’s never asked a man’s permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky.
What happens to them–and to the men they love–becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives.
Based on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern classic–a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond.
Questions: email Katie Stewart, DB Staff at kstewart@discoverybound.org
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Organizer:
Katie Stewart, DB Outreach Volunteer Manager
Phone: 303-376-7572Email: kstewart@discoverybound.orgWebsite: https://www.adventureunlimited.org/organizer/katie-stewart/