by Jan Karon
I'm only thirteen years late reviewing this one, but I'd never picked it up until my book club chose it for our December meeting. We've been reading a lot of heavy stuff lately, and no one wanted to drag corruption and war and other chaos into our Christmas season, so At Home in Mitford it was.I enj...
OMG, I think I'm going to suffer from a terminal case of heartwarming-ness. I may just melt into a puddle, beginning from the inside. This book is not literature. It doesn't really deal with real people. It's a peaches and cream fantasy world. But it's fun enough for comfort reading, providing one h...
At Home in Mitford (Mitford Years, #1) by Jan Karon When I want something cozy, sweet, optimistic, and full of faith and love, I turn to the Mitford series. The story centers around an Episcopalian rector, Father Timothy Kavanaugh, and his congregation in the tiny rural town of Mitford, North Caroli...
*5+ Stars**The Gush* I like adventure, murder mysteries, fantasy, sci-fi, etc. as much as the next guy but sometimes I want something...different. A great book, with great characters, facing all of life's problems-not grand ones but seeing someone make it through the ones that loom large for everyon...
I was in the mood for a comfort read, and so picked up the first Mitford book for a reread. It's been 8 years since I read this series last, and I had forgotten how amazingly feel-good it is. Visiting Mitford is like visiting a group of old friends whom you haven't seen in years, but whom you know w...
gah. what on earth possessed me to try and read this?? I do like "slice-of-life" books - I enjoy Miss Read's tales of the village of Fairacre, and I do like gentle stories that have interesting characters and are set in tiny villages or hamlets. But this.....I could feel my teeth aching from the ove...
So not my thing!
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