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Margery goes to jail for the murder of Clem McCullough. Were you surprised his daughter ended up helping Margery to get out of jail? In 2014, a photograph appeared in newspapers around the world, of a young man playing the piano amid the rubble in Damascus. The man was Aeham Ahmad, a second-generation Palestinian refugee. His memoir tells of the difficulties growing up in Syria, life in a refugee camp in Yarmouk and about facing the daily threat of bombs and snipers. His piano was eventually burned, and the family’s music shop bombed. Now living in Germany, having escaped the Syrian conflict with his wife and children in 2015, Ahmad has created a moving and visceral account of conflict, hope and the power of music. My favorite part was introducing people to reading and nurturing their love for books by giving them suitable novels, magazines, cookbooks, etc. The relation between poverty, illiteracy, and the common belief of the uselessness of education was also pretty well-handled. The librarians always tried to encourage reading in their town without giving up nor embarrassing those who ask (after they refused them first). It was a very nice initiative and didn’t know about it before reading this book.
A woman is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water." -Eleanor Roosevelt. Accusations were made that this book plagiarized from The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson, [7] however, Richardson's publisher Sourcebooks has adamantly denied these claims. [8] [9] A spokeswoman for Sourcebooks said, “We were made aware of the similarities and upon review by our legal team, it was determined that Sourcebooks would not be taking any further course of action.” [8] Jojo Moyes Has Been Accused of Publishing a Novel with "Alarming Similarities" to Another Author's Book". Buzzfeednews.com. As like Neil Gaiman said: “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragon exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten”First, let’s say it was unintentional and just a bizarre consequence. It’s mind blogging that there are ARCs of Troublesome Creek out there and no one from either publishing house brought up the similarities.
Thank you to the publisher and Edelweiss who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own. I was so excited to see that Ms. Moyes had chosen to write a historical fiction novel and was fortunate enough to obtain an advanced readers copy. It is different from her previous contemporary women’s fiction and I thoroughly enjoyed it. However this book did not hold my attention through out and I read this so slowly in comparison to other books I have read. I enjoyed more of the first half of this book with the setting up of the library and learning about each of the women, than the second half. I also get annoyed in books where it sometimes appears that a fiercely independent woman gets married (when they didn’t want to before hand) due to societies pressures. I’ve found quite a few authors do this- the character will have no interest in something and suddenly change their minds. I wouldn’t find it an issue so much if it didn’t happen in a lot of the books I have read.
When Margery, still in jail, goes into labor, Alice fetches Sofia. A little girl is born, named Virginia Alice O’Hare. The women all visit continuously and try to arrange slightly cleaner conditions for Marge. Marge is delighted by the baby, but as her trial nears, it’s clear she’s looking at 20 years or death. She hands off the baby to a heartbroken Sven and stops accepting visitors. Did you have a favorite character among the women? Who do you think you’re most like? Who do you think you’re the least like? Is there anyone you didn’t like? Why not?
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