{"id":10728,"date":"2025-01-16T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=10728"},"modified":"2025-01-16T15:55:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:55:22","slug":"go-back-to-the-1930s-and-read-of-a-scrabbling-librarian-traipsing-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=10728","title":{"rendered":"Read about a Librarian Traipsing Books Across  Appalachia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next read for WTB&#8217;s Book Club is Kim Michele Richardson&#8217;s &#8220;<em>The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek <\/em>.&#8221; The book follows a scrappy 19-year-old young librarian who traverses the rugged hills of Appalachian Kentucky on a packhorse delivering books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/40914165-the-book-woman-of-troublesome-creek?from_search=true&amp;from_srp=true&amp;qid=kUvx1mjsFx&amp;rank=1\">Good Reads review<\/a> reads, <em>&#8220;<\/em>She befriends hardscrabble and complex fellow Kentuckians, and is fiercely determined to bring comfort and joy, instill literacy, and give to those who have nothing, a bookly respite, a fleeting retreat to faraway lands.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All discussions are\u00a0<strong>7-9 p.m. on Zoom.<\/strong>\u00a0You don\u2019t have to come to the Book Club every month, but join us when you can. Call Jennifer Roberts Crittenden at 315-633-2817 to get\u00a0 the Zoom login.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/wtb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BookWoman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10729\" style=\"width:200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wtb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BookWoman.jpg 500w, https:\/\/wtb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BookWoman-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wtb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/BookWoman-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Upcoming Books to Discuss:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 10:  There, There by Tommy Orange<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April 14: The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next read for WTB&#8217;s Book Club is Kim Michele Richardson&#8217;s &#8220;The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek .&#8221; The book &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wtb.org\/?p=10728\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programs",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10728"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10738,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions\/10738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}