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A Common Life (The Mitford Years, Book 6)
I was so disappointed! Why is the author going backwards instead of forwards?? I was so excited when the new book came that I bought a copy for my daughter too. This was not money well spent on my part.
A Common Life (The Mitford Years, Book 6)
so bad I could hardly pick it back up after taking a break. sappy, shallow, clealry only a ploy to make some more money from a story that was already told. from what it looks like, we're in for more of the same--the christmas story and the book of quotes advertised in the back of the book. I wouldn't even consider buying more of the same drivel.
A Common Life (The Mitford Years, Book 6)
After thoroughly enjoying the first four volumes of the Mitford series I was very disappointed at Jan Karon's exploitation of her reading public with this volume. It was obviously done hastily and not with the same warmth and passion of the previous ones. I trust that she has seen the error of her publisher's greediness and will present our Mitford friends in another volume with the warmth and passion she is so capable of giving!
A Common Life (The Mitford Years, Book 6)
All of us who love Mitford ("I KNOW I've been to this town, I just can't remember where it is...") bought this book sight unseen. We love Jan Karon, we love Mitford and we would have bought anything to learn more about Father Tim and Cynthia. I will never be this careless again! Jan Karon and her publisher saw a way to make money and they took it. It's damaged her reputation with many of us. Like many reviewers, I am a librarian and will not recommend this book. I hope SHE reads these reviews!
A Common Life (The Mitford Years, Book 6)
To say that this newest Mitford book has confused me is too simple a statement. Beyond the vague details and sketchy facts contained in the body of the work, the syntax in which this wedding story appeared in the overall scope of this series leaves devoted readers trying to remember which events had happened at the time the wedding occurred and which had yet to unfold. Hadn't Dooley already bonded with Cynthia? Or was he still surly and unforgiving? Reading this installment had the exact opposite effect of the others--it made me tired and addled where the first five have been a balm to my soul every time I have lost myself in them. Sadly, this one will most likely not be revisited as often as the first five. I look forward to the next trip to Mitford, whenever Ms. Karon is ready.
A Common Life (The Mitford Years, Book 6)
I'm sorry, but the point of this book is . . . ??? Talk about disappointed. Ms. Karon held my interest for five books and I (and my friends) looked so forward to the sixth. The first thing I noted about the book when I purchased it was the width of the margins, top, bottom and sides. And then I noticed it was also double spaced with lots of little frills between breaks within the chapters and several almost completely blank pages between the chapters. "Ah, well," I thought, "they say 'less is more'." Wrong! It took me a couple of hours to breeze through the book, skipping over large portions containing quotes (such as every verse of the hymn that Dooley sang for the wedding), the archaic wedding vows we've all heard a thousand times, and portions of scripture that the wedding couple would quote back and forth. Pa-leez!! For the life of me, I can't figure out why Ms. Karon wasted her time, the readers' time, and the publisher's paper and marketing budget. Perhaps the book should be renamed, "The World's Best Reference Book for a Perfectly Boring Wedding."