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Summary: A must read for the busy persons of today.
Review: Karon has the unique ability to take you to a community that is challenging, peaceful, has a variety of characters and keeps your interest. I found her use of the English Language delightful. Metaphors such as "rain as soft as a moth's wings on the window" are moving and create mental images that are very satisfying. In today's busy world where we are bombarded with hate, anger and fear, this little town is a wonderful place to visit. I hope that Karon will continue to write...I will vist her towns often.
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Summary: wonderful, heartwarming
Review: I loved these books, but am perplexed by some things...what is 'livermush?'
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Summary: Positively captivating!
Review: Having just finished the first book in the Mitford series, I am compelled to surge right into the next three books - armed with an iced tea, a big piece of that Marmalade cake, my dog (a Barnabus by nature), and my renewed faith in God and mankind.
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Summary: One of the most heart-warming stories I have ever read
Review: Father Tim and the characters, and I stress characters, of Mitford are enchanting. In today's world of declining moral values it is refreshing to jump into the lives of these beautiful people. Their day to day accomplishments and fears touched my heart and made me feel a little less like an outsider to the world. You won't be sorry you picked up the first book until you finish the last and have to wait patiently for the next one!
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Summary: Charming, heartwarming and habit-forming!
Review: After reading the first four in the Mitford series, I just finished A NEW SONG, the most recent in the continuing story of Father Timothy, Cynthia and their flock. Wish there were another Mitford book to start reading right now. Jan Karon does an outstanding job creating personalities who become well known as the reader is drawn into the life of this special community of faith. Little mysteries woven into very realistic human experiences will keep you turning the pages until the end. Please hurry with the next book in the Mitford Series!!!
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Summary: Jan Karon's books are addicting!
Review: All 4 of these books are so loveable, you'll find yourself sneaking time to read them, staying up late, and even possibly ignoring close friends! Jan Karon has a way of drawing her readers into the story so well that her books are addicting. Enjoy! and don't forget about her newest one, A New Song. It's just as good!
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Summary: A feel-good-when-you're-done book!
Review: I began the series with the first book (a Christmas gift) and now I have to know what happens to everyone! The characters are lovable, interesting and warm--you'll want to move to Mitford!
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Summary: I love them all!
Review: I love all the Mitford books. I find Dooley highly amusing and I love the way Jan Karon makes the escapades of these characters so realistic. I wish my dogs would take a few lessons from Barnabus...
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Summary: Comfortably Satisfied
Review: I remember when my mother asked me if I had heard of the Mitford series. At the time I had heard of the series only vaguely and not enough to tempt me to begin reading. It just so happened that on this 18 hour trip I looked inside my mother's bag and found the first book of the series. I eyed it with curiosity and cautiously flipped open the book to begin reading. Amazingly, time went by without my notice. I found myself sucked into the lives of the characters. While reading I could not help comparing the characters and the town to my own real life neighbors and small town in which I live and discovered some very real similarities. I thoroughly enjoyed and related to the biblical faith expressed in the life of Father Tim. Yes, the community in which I find myself expresses and lives out the same kind of faith. I am thankful that my whole life and heart have changed because of the personal belief I have in the Bible. (Very much like Father Tim.) Since that very long car ride I have read almost all of the series. I strongly recommend this series.
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Summary: Slogging through "Mitford"
Review: I was rather disappointed with this series. I bought the first three books some time ago (at that time, half of the published series, but I believe two more books were written in the interim) and thought I was in for Maupin's "Tales of the City" in a more rural setting--I was wrong. SO wrong!!!! Oh, the characters are colorful enough. I like the repartee Father Tim has with Dooley, his secretary (Edna?) and Puny, the kookiness of Miss Pattie and Miss Rose and Uncle Billy, and Puny's blunt down-home way of talking ("Esther Bolick's lookin' to give you the ol' 'whang-do.'") However, there's no intrigue--the plot lines are short-lived and resolve with a "happily ever after" ending since most of the characters are God-fearing White Christian heterosexuals who live squeaky clean lives. I'm only a third of the way through the third book and it's obvious that I'm in for at least 100 more pages of "I can't believe how lucky I am to have found Cynthia" from Father Tim. That's great for Father Tim, but just think of all the paper wasted that could have been put to better use with say...an actual story arc or two. As a Jewish gay man born and raised in NYC and now living in San Diego, perhaps I'm just the wrong demographic for this series. For sure I won't be finishing it--YAWN!!!
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