Have you read "The Giver of Stars" by Jojo Moyes? It's a pageturner for sure. Goodreads summary says "The Giver of Stars" is a historical fiction story about the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky, a group of 5 women who travel through a large region of the mountainous state delivering books to rural residents, through a program inspired by Eleanor Roosevelt that lasted from the mid 1930s to mid 1940s." But have you also read "The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek", by Kim Michele Richardson? It's also about the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky in the 1930s. Goodreads says this about Richardson's book "In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across slippery creek beds and up treacherous mountains on her faithful mule to deliver books and other reading material to the impoverished hill people of Eastern Kentucky." Apparently there is talk of Moyes having plagiarized Richardson's book. If you read both books, tell us what you think about the accusation of plagiarism on Moyes' part.
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