Christy :: Reading to Know Book Club (May)

Who else has been waiting for this read? I know I have!

This month the Reading to Know Book Club will be reading Christy by Catherine Marshall. This read was selected for us by Stephanie from Simple Things and she will be hosting this month's discussion. Her opening thoughts are below:

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I’m trying to remember when I first read Christy by Catherine Marshall. My copy is quite old and exceptionally well loved, and I honestly am not 100% sure on how I came by it. My best guess would be that my parents picked it up at a used bookstore (along with a stack of Agatha Christie novels) for their young teen daughter who was a voracious reader. A fan of Little House on the Prairie and mild Janette Oke romances, the story of a schoolteacher in the Smoky Mountains seemed right up my alley.

I was completely sucked in.

I have purposefully held off on starting my reread before writing this intro to this month’s book club read. It has probably been at least ten years (maybe longer!) since I’ve read this book and I’m interested to see if my memory holds true to what I remember loving about this story. As a young girl, I seem to remember identifying with Christy’s naïve nature and wanting to have her passion to make a difference and save the world. In contrast my introverted and homebody personality marveled at her boldness to leave her parents at such a young age and move to a rural area where she didn’t know a single person and teach when she had never taught a class before in her life. At my young age, I had found a heroine in young Christy – it will be interesting to see what my older, married and now a mother, self thinks.

I hope you will join me in reading this classic. I look forward to reminiscing with you about this book at the end of the month!

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