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Title: A New Song by Jan Karon ISBN: 0-14-027059-0 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.65 (158 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Best Book Since Her First One
Comment: My wife and I have read each of Karon's Mitford books aloud to each other over the past few years. I enjoyed this book more than I had the previous two in the series. I think that the new locale and the fresh characters really breathed new life into the series. I know from book blurbs that the next installments of the series will be returning to Mitford. I almost wish the author would spend another book in Whitecap, the setting of this book.
Mitford is not abandoned; some storylines continue, including those of Buck Leeper and Dooley Barlowe. But Whitecap Island and its residents have a distinctness that whetted my appetite for more. There was a pleasing authenticity to the descriptions of the island community, and I enjoyed discovering it alongside Father Tim. From 'Ernie's Books Bait, & Tackle' to St. John's in the Grove, this is a fascinating place to visit. In St. John's, Father Tim is introduced to church politics of quite a different sort from his experience with the Mitford church. And the conversations in Ernie's shop are some of the best dialogue Karon has written.
If there is one disappointment for me with this book, it is that Karon couldn't resist the temptation to resolve a neat ending for the Jeffrey Tolson character. Sometimes it's better to let the readers speculate about the fate of secondary characters, and I think this was a perfect case for just that sort of a vague or unstated ending.
If anyone wondered whether the author had enough creativity to go beyond Mitford, I think this book provides an affirmative answer. In my opinion this is the best book since her first one (_At Home in Mitford_)
Rating: 5
Summary: BEST OF THE SERIES!!!
Comment: This was my favorite Mitford book of all. I loved the new town of Whitecap and the new parishioners Father Tim comes to know. I couldn't stop reading this one and I can't really say that about the other 4 although I do love them all. Karon's characters are so real - they are people you know! I was very intrigued by Jeffrey Tolson's character and disappointed that Ms. Karon never really resolved his situation with his wife and with Father Tim and the rest of the congregation. I would like to have heard Jeffrey's side of the story and learned more about why his wife was so severly depressed (was her depression a cause of her husband's infidelity or was the infidelity the cause of the depression - we never find out).... Even with these faults, the book is a joy. As an Episcopalian myself I never fail to recognize the characters in Father Tim's congregation and even more so this time as I grew up on an island much like Whitecap. A friend of mine who read the book was let down that the Kavanaughs had left Mitford but I thought it brought a freshness to the series. I would love to read more about Whitecap!
Pam Funk
Rating: 5
Summary: Another great book!
Comment: Another great book as usual! Too bad there aren't more books like her's. Don't we all wish we lived in Mitford! Great Bible quotes, great friendships and a little love splashed in somewhere!
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Title: Out to Canaan (The Mitford Years) by Jan Karon ISBN: 0140265686 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: In This Mountain by Jan Karon ISBN: 0142002585 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: These High, Green Hills (The Mitford Years) by Jan Karon ISBN: 0140257934 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Light in the Window (The Mitford Years) by Jan Karon ISBN: 0140254544 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: At Home in Mitford (The Mitford Years) by Jan Karon ISBN: 014025448X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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