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July 2026 Success Story

Starlight Book Club - Carrollton

“But some day,” C. S. Lewis began a famous quote, finishing with: “You will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” Whether he knew those words would someday echo in a small Ohio town is a mystery, though one might like to believe it. In 1955, Lewis published The Magician’s Nephew, the very story that would inspire Carrollton Starlight’s first book club decades later.

Starlight’s book club was founded on that quote. Some members shared that they love to read; others said they used to read often; a few admitted they had never finished a full novel before. Yet they all had one thing in common: none had ever been part of a book club.

Regardless of reading level or experience, the club was created to welcome everyone, a place to belong, to escape the real world for a while, and to remember that no matter our age, we can still lose ourselves in magical lands and enchanting characters. Lewis’s novel was the perfect choice for their first journey. It reignited a spark among the group, so much so that they finished The Magician’s Nephew within 15 weeks.

And they did not stop there. Starlight’s book club has now ventured into Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, another adventure and another reminder that someday we will all be old enough to read fairy tales again.