I was impressed by the way Jojo Moyes (an English author) wrote about the lives of these characters in small-town Kentucky. I love books that have a strong sense of place and I love stories about women finding their place, and strength, and calling. This hit those notes for me.

From the publisher: 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.

This book was chosen for Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club, and it’s also going to be a movie soon.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5. This book was high on female empowerment, coming into your own, innovation (with the Packhorse Library), and literacy. All themes that are very important to me. It was a pleasure to read and I’d recommend it wholeheartedly.

I chose this book as my Book of the Month, which I highly recommend! The first Monday of every month, I pour my coffee and head straight to Book of the Month to pick which book I’ll be receiving in the mail. I find I’m generally a happier, calmer person if I always have a fiction book going—so this is a subversive sort of self-care.