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** spoiler alert ** It's once again time for Cynthia's annual tea party and the dreaded armoire has to be moved. Harley moves into the rectory basement. The Baxter residence is up for sale with a prospective out-of-town buyer.
He's planning barbecues and other events as part of his campaign tactics and talking change which some residents want while others don't. Harley is sick and moves into the rectory spare room to be cared for by Lace Turner, Father Tim and Cynthia. Max Stroupe is running for mayor against the incumbent Ester Cunningham and folks are none-too-happy about it.
Father Tim attempts to help Pauline Barlowe locate her other children that she gave up. Longtime Mitford residents Joe Ivy, the barber and his sister Winnie who owns the bakery are planning on moving to Tennessee, causing heartache for Father Tim. Hal Owen hires an assistant for his vet business.
Bishop Stuart announces the upcoming retirement of Father Tim in 18 months. By the end of the book, we don't "hear" who is gets elected as mayor but it is intimated.
Continuing in the tradition of the previous Mitford books, this one is just as enjoyable. Heartwarming story and excellent narration draw the listener into the world of Mitford and all its inhabitants. It was difficult to turn the CD player off and do other things. Good for trips in the car-makes the time pass quickly.
Another good book in the Mitford Series. have the series 1 - 5, but unfortunately cannot find book #6/A Common Life on Audio (or book). any suggestions.
This is the fourth in a series of books by Jan Karon. The development of the characters builds in the series. Out to Canaan is a great read, and I will read it again.
This is great and mighty stuff for all readers, students of the way of the heart and spirit. I particularly enjoy, employ, and cherish his prayer than never fails: "Thy will be done." Potent powerful lessons of the human spirit and how it meshes with the divine unfold in pleasant, totally unpedagodical or pedantic reading.
The sense of place is such a hallmark of this series. Jan Karon's charming North Carolina small town belongs with the great places of fiction: Macondo, Faulkner's unspellable county, the Louisiana of James Lee Burke, Egypt, Maine, and Hillerman's New West.
The simple, homespun, yet more theology of Father Tim resonates and redacts with power and sheer gorgeousness. And she populates it with such knowable and knowing characters who linger long after the last page of each new book unwillingly, but inevitably ends.
There were events here that made me weep and lots that made me laugh. Unfortunately marketing this as Christian fiction limits its audience.
Blessings in a book.
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