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Bookwormjillk
A New Song | Jan Karon
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Traveling south always makes me nostalgic for this sweet series about a Episcopalian priest in North Carolina. Since we were in the Georgia islands last week I returned to this one which has our preacher filling in on the coast.

Sparklemn I absolutely love this series. I'm savoring it so I've only read the first 10. #11 is on my shelf. 7mo
Bookwormjillk @Sparklemn it‘s very soothing 7mo
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Bookwormjillk
A New Song | Jan Karon
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My wild Friday night continued

BarbaraJean This is my kind of wild Friday night. 😁 7mo
AnnCrystal Chocolate 🍫🤩👍. 7mo
Ruthiella Simmer down there now! 😂 7mo
Texreader My kind of Friday night 7mo
Leftcoastzen The best kind!😄 7mo
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Bookwormjillk
A New Song | Jan Karon
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Friday in the couch with a warm blanket and a cat.

Aims42 Bliss 🥰🥰🥰🥰 7mo
thegreensofa Puss looks like she couldn‘t be happier 😻❤️ 7mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 7mo
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AnnCrystal 😘💕😻💝. 7mo
Leftcoastzen 👏😻 7mo
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Mshookquilts
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A good way to relax as we peek into the lives of Jan Karon‘s Mitford people. Lacey and Dooley are finally getting married! They plan to have an old-fashioned country wedding, but a few surprises are on their way.

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Eggs
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This is an add-on to one of my favorite series about the village of Mitford, with collected wisdom from one of the main characters Father Tim 🩷

“Middle age is when you‘ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.”Ogden Nash

#Feast #HumbleHarvest @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Velvetfur Haha I love that quote, I get that all the time! 😂 12mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Excellent 🧡 12mo
Eggs @Velvetfur me too 😍 12mo
Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thanks 🙏🏻 12mo
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Eggs
Violet Comes to Stay | Jan Karon, Emily Arnold McCully, Melanie Cecka
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Sweet Violet is the last of the litter to find a home - she tries the bakery, plant nursery, and grocery; but at last she finds her home at a pleasant little bookshop. The children love this for a bedtime story each time they visit 🐱📚💙

#Kitten #SummerSpecial

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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KathyWheeler
Hons and Rebels | Jessica Mitford
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I don‘t know what the Mitford family found so offensive about this book; they don‘t particularly come out of it looking bad. Diana and Unity are called Nazis and pro-fascists — which they were — but Jessica cannot hide her sympathy and love for Unity. Nancy comes off as a little mean and not very serious. But the truth is they aren‘t in the book much. The memoir covers Decca‘s life from her childhood to when her first husband left for the war.

batsy Great review. I too enjoyed it and found Jessica a sympathetic and generous writer. The only things they could object to were all true! 1y
KathyWheeler @batsy Thanks. Exactly! Something I read said they thought their mother came across as stupid, but I didn‘t find that to be the case. She was a bit too suspicious of doctors and vaccines, but I never got the impression that Jessica thought she was actually stupid. 1y
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KathyWheeler
Hons and Rebels | Jessica Mitford
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From what I read in The Six and The Sisters, I fully expected this book to be full of vitriol and hysteria, but so far that‘s not the case.

Leftcoastzen I love all of Deccas books that I have read 1y
Ruthiella Yeah, Jessica really gets a raw deal in the bios and yet she was so interesting! 1y
KathyWheeler @Leftcoastzen This is the first one I‘ve read, but I‘ll read more. 1y
KathyWheeler @Ruthiella She really does, but she‘s the only one I‘d really want to know. 1y
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KathyWheeler
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Another readable but biased book about the Mitford sisters. Again, everything Diana says and does is excused because of her beauty while Jessica is disparaged because she was a Communist. Mocking remarks about the death of Jessica‘s baby are even excused because after all her husband had been known to play some horrible pranks; whereas, we are expected to feel sorry for Diana when she‘s taken to to prison before her healthy baby is weaned.🙄

KathyWheeler Also, the book is titled The Sisters, but we see very little of Nancy, Pam, and Debo even though Nancy was a well-known writer. It‘s mostly about Unity, Diana, and Jessica. Unity‘s pro-Nazi attitude is discussed but mainly in regard to her stalking of and her eventual relationship with Hitler. A lot of it is, “Oh, poor Unity! She only wanted peace between the two countries she loved.” Jessica‘s declarations of her unhappy childhood are dismissed. 1y
KathyWheeler And they are dismissed because everyone else said she seemed so happy. I would think the fact that she established a runaway fund as a child is pretty indicative that not all was wine and roses. 1y
KathyWheeler The author goes out of her way to say that Diana‘s extraordinary beauty is just not captured well by photographs. I would have to agree, as to me, looking at the pictures, the extraordinarily beautiful one is Debo. But I don‘t understand this obsession with Diana‘s beauty and using it to excuse everything. Maybe because Diana was still alive when this book was written, and she allowed access to family papers and other things? 1y
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KathyWheeler Last comment. Much is made of the horrible conditions that Diana lived under in Holloway prison with very little acknowledgment that she was not the only one. Yes, conditions should have been improved, but for everyone, not just Diana. She had people interceding for her and making her life a little easier, including Churchill; most other prisoners had no one. 1y
rubyslippersreads Diana wrote a memoir about her friend Wallis Simpson. Birds of a feather … 😏 1y
KathyWheeler @rubyslippersreads The first book I read about the Mitfords,The Six, didn‘t mention the book about Wallis Simpson, but this one did. The author also stated that there was never any proof that the Duke of Windsor supported Hitler, but I thought that was pretty well known. 1y
KathyWheeler Very last comment. 😄. I‘ve been thinking about this. All of the pictures on the cover are of the sisters as adults, except the one of Jessica in the top right. The picture used is the one of her as a pouting child even though there are many pictures of her as an adult. It might not mean anything, but it‘s interesting. (edited) 1y
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Eggs
A New Song | Jan Karon
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This is book 5 of Jan Karon‘s lovely Mitford series.

#TemptingTitles #WithNew

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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