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Summary: What a wonderful place to escape to .......
Review: I love this series so much!!!! A friend of mine mailed me the first four books as a gift....and I just bought the last book....I hope there will be many more to follow.I do wish they had all been the same size....I like my shelves to be impressive......smile What a wonderful life Tim and Cynthia have and I often wonder if much of the writings are true life experiences. Would love to meet the author and sit down for a chat with her.
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Summary: Very Slow
Review: I like the book, however, I find it to be very slow. I am constantly waiting for something exciting to happen. I do like the way it is written as if it's everyday life.
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Summary: I tried - but I was slowly falling into a coma...
Review: I had heard so many wonderful things about this book. I love to read, but I found this book so incredibly boring that I finally threw in the towel half way through.
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Summary: Funny, Charming Christian Literature!
Review: Such fun to read, refreshing! I just love Fr. Tim and all the people and situations which touch his life so endearingly! I was ready to relocate to Mitford! I thoroughly enjoy the Christianity that permeates this book, the faith that Fr. Tim lives on a daily basis, the way he struggles with it just as I do! I am grateful to Ms Karon; may she continue to write about Mitford for a long time to come!
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Summary: I'd like to escape my corporate world to live in Mitford
Review: People seem to have a have a love or hate reaction to Mitford and little in between. I fall into the "love it" category. I work in a very high pressure corporate job and find the quirky, imperfect, loveable characters an appealing reminder that there is another way to live. I read to relax and recharge and have come away from these books re-energized. What a differnce from some popular, but depressingly bleak books that are out there (on my "yuck" list, A Thousand Acres, She's Come Undone). Come to Mitford and remember that there are good people in the world.
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Summary: The most enjoyable books I have ever read!
Review: I have never experienced such a wonderful and touching book as this. I could not put it down. I could not believe how involved and how much I cared about these peoples lives. It leaves you with a positive outlook on life, even in troubled times. It truly warms the heart.
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Summary: Shallow
Review: This book has no depth. It is dull and easy to put down. The characters have real problems, but never seem to be affected by them. The book is shallow and unrealistic, but if you want to read something that is easy and doesn't make you do any thinking, read it. I thought it was a complete waste of time.
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Summary: Delightful, refreshing, and touching
Review: This is the literary equivalent of a mug of tea on a cold day. I enjoyed the variety of characters, and found many of their stories to be touching. There was also a great deal of truth here, stated in a quiet way. Earthshaking, no, but comforting and fulfilling.
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Summary: A Comfortable Read
Review: As someone who has always lived on the ocean, I've often wondered what life in the interior provinces was like.....and now I know. Jan Karon cranks things down a couple of notches and shows us the some of the more simple pleasures about life--although I must say I'll pass on that livermush stuff. Mitford's a great place to visit, nice folks, slower pace and just detached enough from the real world be to safe place to seek temporary exile from fax machines, beepers, the Bloomberg screen and Federal Express packages. Really, when you need a break and can't spare the time for a week in Bermuda, a brief visit to Mitford will be just as good. Okay, so try this: Get a copy of the book from Amazon.com (yeah, yeah it's their web site, so as long as you're here you may as well order it), lock the doors, take the phone off the hook, fix a pot of tea, put on a Mozart on the CD player, settle back and just escape.
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Summary: waste of time
Review: come on! please. you've got to be kidding. are you for real? holy smokes. can it be? if you loved these cliches, you'll love this book. if not, pick something with content to read, otherwise your entire college education could be evaporated by the time you finish the first book in this series. please! money isn't everything, but the author must think so. there is marketing genius and nothing else behind this series. good luck!
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