Regular muffin tins work just as well but I had fun doing it ‘proper’. Being able to loan them for free from traveling book libraries that came right to your door must have been a Godsend for these tenacious women.Īlice’s English Cottage Pie “She had been trying to make cottage pie, to encourage Annie to put something other than Southern food on the table.”īecause I’m sure Alice would have loved some with her cottage pie! Luckily, during the making of this recipe, I was staying at an English neighbor’s home and she had the pudding tins. These magazines provided patterns, household budgeting tips, child care advice and recipes among many other topics. Most mountain Kentucky men worked long days or nights in the dangerous coal mines. As a woman, days were long and filled with scrubbing laundry by hand, gardening, cleaning, sewing and making meals with what little you had for often very large families. As you can imagine, living in the back country hills of Kentucky during the Great Depression was hard and merciless. This is the magazine mentioned multiple times in The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes. These ladies were tough! To see more about my trip, click here. I was wearing three pairs of pants and two pairs of socks inside my shearling boots and I was still freezing during horseback riding! Not to mention, it was a mere hour long ride. I have a whole new appreciation for the packhorse librarians’ dedication and passion for getting books out to the far reaches of their world. Being from Florida, I braved the cold of January to explore the setting for The Giver of Stars. The dense mountains of Kentucky are both beautiful and humbling. Her character definition was amazing! The way she brought each person to life with accents and inflection was incredibly gratifying. Let’s face it- audiobooks can be expensive but this one is worth every penny!
I will reread this book and as it was my first book by Moyes, I will be picking up her other works.Īudiobook Rating: 5/5 I really enjoyed Julia Whelan’s performance in The Giver of Stars. By weaving books profoundly throughout the story, Moyes shares a subtle but determined reminder that we not take their literary knowledge, nor libraries, for granted. I loved Stars and I recommend it to almost everyone. I found the historical references fascinating. She does all this while paying homage to the power of the written word and the mountain librarians of Kentucky.
Moyes composes a magical journey about a young woman finding her place in the world, the meaning of friends and true love. In a quick paced turn of events, Alice finds herself volunteering to be a pack horse librarian. It inspired a trip to the mountains of Kentucky, horseback riding in the cold and some great comfort foods!īritish born Alice is adrift in the mountains of depression era Kentucky as well as her confounding new marriage.
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