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Christy | Catherine Marshall

(thru ch10; I haven't read today's chapter yet 😂) I think this is the cover of the edition my mom had when I was growing up. This was definitely one of the first “adult“ books I read. I've been thoroughly enjoying this reread. I really like Christy and feel like she is such a realistic character. I'm not a huge fan of David though; he's so condescending. Christy has faced some real dangers and some real life in the several weeks she has been ⬇

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) there. I love Miss Alice and find her conversations with Christy to be so engaging. She has some interesting perspectives on the “why does God let bad things happen to good people“ question. Dr. MacNeil, on the other hand, seems to think that the answer is because God just doesn't care or doesn't exist.

As a side note, I loved the tall tale about the giant cornstalk 😂 But who are these strange men who were hanging around??

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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) I love that Christy has had to face the question as to whether she was actually called to Cutter Gap or if she was just running away from life. It's hard to know where to start when everything seems so terrible, especially when you see how (comparatively) little progress has been made by the people who have already been working here for a while. The liver-grown baby 😢 such a tragic, senseless loss!

I think this book does such a good ⬇ 5d

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) job of balancing humor, tragedy, sadness, and joy, making both readable and believable.

Obviously, I'm really enjoying this one, but what do the rest of you think?

@BarbaraJean @BarkingMadRead @julieclair @Librarybelle @Sace @StayCurious @Teresereading @willaful 5d

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Librarybelle It‘s been a good reread so far. I love the descriptions of the setting (not about the blood in the snow, though!). 5d

BarkingMadRead I‘m really loving this, I was wondering how I would feel since this is a reread for me also, but it‘s been like 20 years at least. I remember getting the book because I didn‘t like the way the series ended and I wondered if the book was different 🤣 5d

ShelleyBooksie I remember reading this book as a young teen! 5d

julieclair This is my first time reading this and I'm loving it. It really feels like a true depiction of what life was like in extreme rural Tennessee at that time. I don't dislike David, I just think he has some growing/learning to do. 5d

willaful I haven't been able to get into it, strictly mood reading right now. :-( 5d

Jadams89 This is my first time reading this one and I‘m really enjoying it! 4d

BarbaraJean I'm also really enjoying it. It's bringing up much more complex and nuanced questions than I anticipated! I've loved seeing Christy's deepening self-knowledge and wrestling with the reality of how hard life is there, and how hard it is to make a difference. I still don't really understand the whole liver-grown thing, though, and what even happened with the baby! 3d

TheAromaofBooks @BarbaraJean - I think she literally killed the baby by forcing its foot to touch its hand, or whatever the combination was. So many weird old wives' tales - I don't feel like the Dr explains the “reasoning“ behind it (I'm sure there is some “if the baby can't do this then its liver doesn't work so you have to stretch it to make it work“ kind of thinking). It's probably something most babies can do? The whole thing was just so sad! 3d

BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks That all makes sense when I re-read that section. I think my brain just couldn‘t accept that‘s what actually happened—there HAD to be some other reason, some illness or something!! 😭😭 3d

CogsOfEncouragement @BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks I was so bothered and confused I shut the book and did some googling. I didn‘t make a note of the source, but it explained that Mrs. McHone broke the baby‘s back. Such a devastating truth, you don‘t want a mother to do that to the next baby, but how do you convince her she killed the baby she loved dearly? You know that would devastate her worse than the loss of the baby already has. 2d

TheAromaofBooks @CogsOfEncouragement @BarbaraJean - It seems like the actual term “liver grown“ is that they thought that the liver was actually attached to the ribs, so the idea of forcing the foot/hand to touch was that you were “freeing“ the liver. Interestingly, being liver-grown seems to be a wide-spread concept, although various regions deal with it differently, including spinning the baby around head-over-heels multiple times, or passing the baby under a ⬇ 23h

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) table (?!??!). Old midwives like the Granny described in the book had an immense amount of sway among the womenfolk in these communities because they literally saved women's lives in childbirth, so you can also see why her word would be accepted as truth/they wouldn't want to accept an opposing viewpoint, especially considering that so much of their lore WAS correct. 23h

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Christy | Catherine Marshall

Starting today‘s chapter for #randomclassics. Mysterious and intriguing start.

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julieclair I‘m loving this book! First time reading it. Please add me to the tag list. 😃 6d

Sace @julieclair I think @TheAromaofBooks is organizing this one. Edit: it‘s been years since I read it last but I‘m really enjoying this reread. (edited) 6d

julieclair Oops! Meant to post on hers…. 6d

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Sace @julieclair no worries! 6d

TheAromaofBooks @julieclair - I added you!!! I'm just doing a terrible job making regular posts as usual 😂 5d

TheAromaofBooks @Sace - I've never had strong opinions about women wearing pants vs skirts, but the number of times Christy's skirts have put her in danger already, oh my goodness! 5d

Sace @TheAromaofBooks 😂 I know! 5d

CogsOfEncouragement @TheAromaofBooks Yes, I‘ve read other things about how skirts are just not safe in so many situations. Infuriating to be stuck in garments so ill equipped for the environment. 2d

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