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Christy (originalo 1967; eldono 1968)
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Fleming H Revell Co (1968), Edition: 1st Avon Edition, 501 pages
Christy de Catherine Marshall (1967)
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I picked up Christy at a used bookstore on a family road trip when I was about eleven years old. Why I was drawn to the worn, musky smelling book I don't know, but I read it cover to cover and loved it.
Christy is a flawed character, which makes her relatable. In many stories where a character arrives to "change the world", they are flawless with all the skills and knowledge needed to turn a problem around. Christy isn't. She starts as unprepared and naive. She battles through the obstacles she faces in Cutter Gap and the hardships of poverty that she sees. As Christy interacts with the different families in the Smoky Mountains, you will begin to fall in love with each little story within the story, all while watching Christy expand her world, learning more about herself and what she is capable of. ( )
CAEdwards | Mar 21, 2017 |
A book that has been on my to-read list since a librarian suggested it to me when I was around 9 years old, I'm sorry to admit it has taken me 18 years to read this powerful tale. Impoverished seems like such an inadequate word for the world encountered by Christy, the heroine of this at times heart-breaking story. There are heartwarming moments sprinkled in among the sadness as Christy finds her faith and her place in the world. ( )
LilyRoseShadowlyn | Jan 26, 2017 |
Until 3 days ago, I had 1500 books on my Goodreads bookshelves. Until one month ago, I was passionate about Goodreads, an evangelist, really, telling everyone I knew - who loves books (and there are a diminishing number of those people in my life, sadly) about the amazing community that I had found here on Goodreads.
This is not a protest review. But it is an off-topic review, although I will get to the point sooner or later.
But I came to Goodreads precisely for the off-topic reviews. For the friendships. For the occasionally over-the-top snark and the silliness and the passion. But mostly because the people that I found here were like me in one extremely unique way. There are a lot of people who enjoy reading. There are a lot of people who profess to love books. There are commensurately fewer people who read widely, and wildly, and with a great consuming fury that causes them to recall their lives in books.
I remember that I read The Portrait of a Lady on my honeymoon. It was the Penguin classics edition, with the black spine, and I still have it sitting on my bookshelf. I read it next to a pool in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, and the cover is still rippled where my new husband splashed me in an effort to get me to stop reading and join him at the swim up bar (I did. And this was the first in many years of my husband splashing, poking, tickling, teasing and otherwise attempting to pull my attention away from whatever book I was reading).
I remember that I read The Game of Thrones on a cruise. This, too, was in the pre-kindle days, before I could take an entire bookshelf with me everywhere (and what a luxury that turned out to be). I was going away for a week, and I didn't have a lot of space to pack, and cruise ship libraries are, in my experience, pretty bleak places, full of novels written by Nicholas Sparks and little else. In a moment of inspiration, I packed the first three, bricklike paperback editions of GRRM's epic series, concluding that they would keep me busy for the entire week, while only taking up the space of three paperbacks. I was right. It worked a treat. Except, of course, for the part where I finished the books on the sixth day, leaving me with one lonely, bookless, day to spare.
That is what I found on Goodreads. I found my people. People who, when they pack for vacation, pack their books first and decide which clothes to take second, based on how much (little) space is left in the suitcase. People who are always reading, and talking about reading, something.
I have 1100 books on my home kindle account, and another 450 on a bookclub account I share with friends. I have bookshelves full of books at home, at least another four to five hundred books in print form that are waiting for me to read. I could probably read for a full decade and never buy another book (not that I will, but I could). I am not on Goodreads because I need book recommendations. My entire non-professional brain capacity is given over to books, and authors, and publishers, and random ephemera about all three of them. I can find my own books.
So, what was I here for? I was here for the off-topic. For the stories. For the conversations. For the crazy. For the people who loved, like I did, Trixie Belden. To talk about books that I read long ago and that stole my heart.
Like this one. That is where Christy comes into this off-topic review. This is a book that I read long ago, when I was a girl, before I went off to college. It was a library book, that my mother, of all people, checked out because it was a book that she had loved, and she wanted to share it with me.
I wanted to turn up my nose at it - I was a teenager after all, and very, very edgy. And my mother and I were at a rough patch in our relationship. I wore Ray-Ban sunglasses, and skinny jeans with zippers at the ankle, and black (lots and lots of black), I spoke bad high school French. I was insufferable, pretentious, caught up in my own intellect, and I saw little in my mother - doctor's wife, stay-at-home mom - to emulate. God, what a little bitch I was.
And this book was about a Christian girl who goes to Appalachia to teach. There was no reason that this book should have worked for me. And yet, it did. It enraptured me, and I stayed up all night reading it. And even as snotty, and edgy, and obnoxious as I was, I saw the look in my mom's eyes when she asked me if I liked it, and I couldn't lie to her and break her heart, and I admitted that yes, yes I did like it. I liked it a lot, and I thanked her for giving it to me. And we hugged, and some of the tension between myself and my mother, in those very difficult years between childhood and adulthood melted away with that little bit of common ground. From a book. This book.
That's all I have to say.
Except that I'm sad because Goodreads is different now, and this review is off-topic, and off-topic is no longer allowed.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. ( )
moonlight_reads | Dec 11, 2016 |
This is historical fiction, about 75% biographical, 25% fiction, set in the United States in the early part of the 20th century. Christy, nineteen years old and idealistic, is based on the author’s mother; many of the anecdotes in the book are based on her experiences as a young teacher in a remote village with poor sanitation and almost no education.
Christy is thrown into a lifestyle that seems very primitive. At first she can’t bear the smell of unwashed children, and has little idea how to handle them. Gradually she learns to love them for themselves, aided by the delightful Miss Alice, an older Quaker woman. Christy gradually makes friends among the local women….
The novel is educational without being overtly so; it gives an excellent picture of the scourges of poverty, lack of sanitation and illiteracy. It’s Christian in theme, yet without being preachy. There are parts which are shocking, even in an era when disasters and bereavements were fairly common.
It's a long book which is very well-written, and the characters come to life clearly. Highly recommended for older teens as well as adults. ( )
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On that November afternoon when I first saw Cutter Gap, the crumbling chimney of Alice Henderson's cabin stood stark against the sky, blackened by the flames that had consumed the house.
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The joy of the children was in his voice.
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When Christy Huddleston leaves a life of privilege and ease to teach in the impoverished Smokey Mountains, her faith is severely tested by her pupils, the love of two men, and the curious customs of the mountain people in her community. Yet she grows to love these people and the simple, fulfilling lifestyle to be found in the heart of God's country. First released in 1967, Christy is based on the life of author Catherine Marshall's mother and was the inspiration for the recent television series of the same name. Beautifully told, this is a charming, timeless tale of love and faith that will appeal to romance readers of all ages. --Maudeen Wachsmith
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At nineteen, Christy Huddleston left home to teach school in the Smokies where she came to know and care for the wild mountain people and to be tested by the strengths and needs of two remarkable young men.
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