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I enjoyed this book very much and would recommend it to anyone who has read the Mitford Series. She had the most colorful, even playful speech habits, and small details never escaped her. She could remember, at the age of one hundred, how the bodice of a certain dress was smocked, or the fabric from which it was made. Lawn, silk shantung, crepe de chine, dotted Swiss, and marquisette were just a few of the poetic fabric names she often referenced. She told me all about her five suitors and how the best man won. “Fannie,” said my grandfather, sitting on the far end of the davenport in his courting garb, “Do you care for me?
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Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim) - Paperback By Karon, Jan - GOOD
Jan Karon was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, in 1937. Her creative skills first came alive when her family moved to a farm. Jan knew that she wanted to be a writer, and even wrote a novel at the age of ten. Her first real opportunity as a writer came at age eighteen when she took a job as a receptionist at an ad agency. She kept leaving her writing on her boss's desk until he noticed her ability. Soon she was launched on a forty-year career in advertising.
I identify with this adventure, as I finally returned after 30+ years to places where I'd grown up, to find how things had changed and/or moved on since I'd been there. Reading this book was like sitting on the porch sipping lemonade and talking with old friends. Truth be told it reminded me of my childhood days listening to my parents and family talk about the old days. I was thinking back to the visits to Kentucky listening to conversation and meals at the dinner table.
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North Carolina and Mississippi are two quite diverse places—one must catch the subtle nuances of speech differences and make them ring true. I feast with pleasure on dialogue that is well crafted and authentic. Q. Did any of the new characters you conceived become particular favorites? You especially seemed to have a little fun with Luola Dabney Randolph Lewis. A. I was most surprised by the lovely difference in the Deep South from the South.
A new slew of unforgettable characters and a few drive-bys with the old ones. Beautiful reminders of the grace needed to keep growing in every season of life... And poignant looks backward that give him peace and encourage you to forgive your own history’s pains. Also loved the beauty of rural Mississippi, it struck a chord from my college days spent in that state. Now I have to go hunt down the rest of the series....
Book Summary
A collection of beautiful anedotes, delicious recipes, and memorable scenes from the Mitford books by #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon. Father Tim is surprised that the courthouse was as large as he remembered it. Discuss times you revisited places from your childhood only to discover that things were different than you recalled. While reader tastes are far too varied for us to ever call a book a "sure thing" for everyone, literary awards can offer useful signposts... At 18, Karon began working as a receptionist for a Charlotte, N.C. She advanced in the company after leaving samples of her writing on the desk of her boss, who eventually noticed her talent.
And, of course, he thinks back to his mother, whose beauty was rivaled only by that of the gardens she so lovingly tended. Though the memories may be very much alive, the people connected to them are all buried near the oldest tree in Hill Crest Cemetery. So, I consider this to be the tenth book of a laid back series about an Episcopalian priest in a small town in North Carolina. It is often funny and sweet with the occasional sad vignette mixed into the plot. According to my records, I've read this novel before, but it must have been a long time ago because I'd completely forgotten it. Anyhow, it explained a lot about Father Tim's background and served to develop his character even more, and I enjoyed it.
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Karon says her character-driven work seeks to give readers a large, extended family they can call their own. Though Light From Heaven is officially the final novel in the series, there's yet another Mitford book in this prolific author. Karon urges her millions of ardent fans to look for the Mitford Bedside Companion, releasing in the Fall of 2006. "It has everything in it but the kitchen sink", says Karon. During her years in advertising, Karon kept alive her childhood ambition to be an author. At the age of 50, she left her career in advertising and moved to Blowing Rock, North Carolina, to pursue that dream.
A Common Life, In This Mountain, and Shepherds Abiding have also won Gold Medallion awards. Out to Canaan was the first Mitford novel to hit the New York Times bestseller list; subsequent novels have debuted on the New York Times list, often landing the #1 spot. Truth be told, I've avoided reading the Father Tim novels for years, because I've just loved Mitford too much, and I didn't want it to really end. But I've been rereading the whole series this year , so I thought I'd finally delve on in. Given this, and other content, including a rape scene that could have been less detailed, I was unable to give this book a higher rating, though the writing was very well done. I've waited a long time to read this further installment of the Mitford books because I was unsure how I'd feel about some of the darker subject matter.
The emphasis on Scripture & Truth and the sharing of both even in the darkest moments of life...and the freedom to live that it brings....makes me want to stand a shout of His goodness!!! This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. I was more than a little dubious about the change of narrator for this book. No he's not John MCDonough but Sowers does an outstanding job.
After struggling—and failing—to get a novel underway, Karon awoke one night with a mental image of an Episcopal priest walking down a village street. Soon, Karon was publishing weekly installments about Father Tim in her local newspaper, The Blowing Rocket, which saw its circulation double as a result. If I was Jan Karon I also would have left some loose ends. In real life, sometimes you don't get answers, and sometimes people you pray for don't get saved ; you have to trust God through all of that anyway. The fact that Father Tim found every single childhood friend, mostly by coincidence, was just too hokey for me.
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