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A review by trisha_thomas
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
4.0
"I liked my sensibility just fine. I liked my freedom a lot—loved the solitude these last seven months had given me—and I lived for the joy of bringing books and reading materials to the hillfolk who were desperate for my visits, the printed word that brought a hopeful world into their dreary lives and dark hollers."
I'd never heard of librarians that delivered books to rural areas by horse or mule and how that affected and changed lives. I found both the information about librarians, how they get their books and the Kentucky blue people both fascinating and an interesting element of the story. I can't imagine how wonderful it must have been to deliver books like that, a traveling library, but also how hard to see those people in the country struggling so much. This story was very good.
I'd never heard of librarians that delivered books to rural areas by horse or mule and how that affected and changed lives. I found both the information about librarians, how they get their books and the Kentucky blue people both fascinating and an interesting element of the story. I can't imagine how wonderful it must have been to deliver books like that, a traveling library, but also how hard to see those people in the country struggling so much. This story was very good.