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Title: A Common Life: The Wedding Story (Beloved Mitford, No. 6) by Jan Karon ISBN: 0-14-200034-5 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.54 (227 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Exquisite for what it is
Comment: No,it isn't long enough - hence 4 stars, not 5 - but it is a sheer joy for what it is. As a Mitford-addicted reader and tape listener I approached with trepidation hearing the tape read by anyone but Jan. Dana Ivy is superb and captures Cynthia especially with new shades of color cast on this fascinating character. The complexity and challenge of what it means to make a marriage commitment is genuinely explored through Father Tim; we learn more about the Mitfordites through vigniettes connected to their own marriages or love stories; Miss Sadie is ALIVE again; Dooley's singing, so eloquently done by Dana on the tape - all are joys. The simple reiteration of the Gospel and how to find spiritual wholeness - for me,the heart of all Mitford books- is there in power.
A COMMON LIFE is a lorgniette-view of characters about whom we have come to care during the single event about which we would most like to know every detail. The book delivers - but we'll never stop wanting more, because Jan's storytelling gift has made room for itself permanently for so many.
Rating: 3
Summary: Lovely, relaxing, peaceful, funny quick read
Comment: Okay! I'm one of the people who bought the book and LIKED it.
I was forewarned of the backward glance it would give and that did not bother me. I was well removed from reading the other books in the series, which I loved and gave away in sets to friends and loved ones. And I think this little volume, so beautifully appointed with wedding graphics and chapter separations, is actually rather inspirational.
I had forgotten how Karon's skill in dialogue makes her characters come to life. I was chuckling softly all the way through it, trying not to disturb my sleeping spouse.
The Reverend Tim's revelation of his good news at the Grill is priceless, presented as it is around the marvelous ballet of who is ordering what for lunch. And each encounter with the regular pairs of characters, the Bolicks, the mayor and her spouse, Miss Sadie and Louella, Uncle Billy and Rose, Dooley and Barnabas, just warmed my heart.
On a smaltzie note, Tim and Cynthia's love and committment to one another is refreshing and endearing giving hope to the old romantics in so many of us. Their fears and hesitancies are quite real, too. The saying, "There is no fool like an old fool," does not go unheeded in their cautionary moments.
This is a feel good shortie that whets the appetite for another Jan Karon biggie. With such talent, another title should be coming or another series starting. Anticipation of such is good.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another great book of course!
Comment: Another great read! A little shorter than regular Mitford books. Interesting how she would hold off on the wedding chapters for a later book. I just can't get enough of Mitford!
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Title: A New Song by Jan Karon ISBN: 0140270590 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 April, 2000 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: 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: 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: Shepherds Abiding by Jan Karon ISBN: 0670031208 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 20 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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