The Giver of Stars book review

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are, where you are, how I can get you. Someone gives me a star, all the stars. Keep reading to find out what book we're talking about today. 

Hey, my name is Kyla Denanyoh. Today, we're discussing the book "The Giver of Stars." Jojo Moyes wrote the book. The book's genre is fiction. The theme of the book is literature. 

So this book was so great. I mean, I don't make it a habit to read books that are not great. However, I do like to share reviews with you, whether I absolutely love the book or could have given it a try. This one was really special to me because it was a love story that developed slowly. Then, it centered on books and libraries, which I'm absolutely obsessed with. I even got this book from the library. I love libraries. I definitely enjoy buying books. I've definitely spent a lot of money on books, but it's really cool to just get them from the library. 

This book was all about being the giver of stars, and that is, um, you're giving away stars when you're giving away library books, when you're traveling in the mountains, you're handing out books to people you're teaching them how to read you're sparking that imagination that sponge-like brain in a child you're teaching your mom new recipes you're doing all this stuff. 

This will set back in time. People were terrified of libraries; they were terrified of learning something new, and they were terrified of the unknown. So, these young ladies were incredibly brave. One of the quotes in the book that means a great deal to me is when someone is talking about Marjorie. They say you know her daddy's name travels before her.

That quote is about Marjorie, one of the first women working on the writing library, which involved writing horses traveling from town to town to distribute the books. And Marjorie has this bad rap. She comes from a messy family. They got all kinds of drama and stuff going on, alcoholics, all this stuff. And so, people don't really like her. They don't really associate with her.

And what happens is that someone is trying to explain who Marjorie is, and they're like, 'Oh, you know her; her daddy's name comes first because her family is renowned.' Okay. And good ways, but mostly bad ways. But the quote meant a lot to me because I lost my father in 2021. And so my dad's name traveling before me gives me chills. It's like, yeah, people do not only know me, they know my father. And so they've heard about me because of my father, or they know my family because of my last name. And so now, you know what I mean? And so I remember when I got married in 2019, and I definitely knew that I wanted to change my name to my married last name, which is Denanyoh. However, it was not lost on me that I was the only girl in my dad's family and that I would have to change from my family name to my new married name. 

And what a big deal that was, right? Many people don't change their names when they get married. Some people do. For whatever reason you want, whether you want to change your name or not, hyphenating doesn't matter. However, most people put some thought into it, whether they decide to do it or not. I decided to take my husband's name, but it was not lost on me that I would no longer be using the family name that I came from. My father's name. And so the quote that your daddy's name travels before you, it just really, really, really hit me here in the heart because it's an absolute honor to have my daddy's name travel in front of me, travel ahead of me. I mean, I still look just like him, and I have all this stuff to remember him, but that part really, really jumped out at me. 

I've received some comments on here; you guys seem to find the most minute little things, and they mean something, but I imagine that the author of the books is writing. Every line means something to them, and that might not be true. If it's not, please don't tell me. Still, whether she heard their daddy's name travel before them, whether it's just something familiar that people used to say back then, no matter how Jojo Moyes found that sentence to put it in the book, even if she didn't think it would make an impact, I'm glad to know that it did make an impact and that it meant a lot to me. 

So, would I reread The Giver of Stars? Yes. It is a very long, interesting, and detailed book. I've read it twice, and I'm always amazed by what I've learned about Alice; yeah, and I think it's absolutely fascinating. I remember reading Me Before You and then You After Me, and then I bought the third one, but I've never read it, so I'll have to do a review on that. But Jojo Moyes is a great writer. It's not a departure from what she's written before, causing her other books to be out of print. However, this one is a historical literature book, which is very different from the contemporary writing she did in Me Before You. 

Until the next book review, Kyla