Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim, Book 1)

Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim, Book 1)
by Jan Karon

Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim, Book 1)
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Author: Jan Karon
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-28
ISBN: 0143114395
Number of pages: 355
Publisher: Penguin Group
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  • ISBN13: 9780143114390
  • Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim, Book 1)

Book Review: Not Home at All
Summary: 1 Stars

I work in Holly Springs. I am through there all the time. This is not the same town, of any time period. I enjoyed the Mitchard series so much, I went to Jan Karon's book signing for this book. She was delightful & charming. I almost lived in history as my four year old daughter almost knocked her akimbo. Ms Karon is not in actuality as young as her photos appear. She was wobbling along in very high heels, of which she almost got knocked off of by my excited daughter.

The bad narrating has already been mentioned. This narrator is not of the same calaber as John McDonough. Several Southern words, such as Sewanee College have been mispronounced. I don't feel like this book is even about Father Tim without John McDonough to see it through. When I hear Mr McDonough narrating another book, I always feel like it's Father Tim narrating somebody else's book.

The biggest thing that grates on me & has bothered several friends is the Southern things that are just WRONG in this book. The thing that made us laugh the hardest was the ground hog hunting. We don't have ground hogs. I even called a friend who's a big hunter. There is no such thing. No ground hogs, no ground hog hunting. What was Ms Karon thinking? Where did she get this? I think the old men in Minor Brothers Hardware Store she visted in Holly Springs while doing research thought this would be a better joke on Ms Karon than sending her snipe hunting is all I can think. I am sure some old man put his whittling down to laugh himself to pieces over this.

I really dislike it when Yankee people try to write about the South & get it wrong wrong wrong. It's inevitable they try for a civil rights racial relations thing. It always goes horribly wrong. And this book wallows in it. Yankee people should just not go there. It is distasteful & in poor taste. And when I say distasteful, I mean the words, the spirit of the book & the bad narrating. The narrator tries for different voices & fails horribly. The narrator's try at a "Southern" accent and an African American accent is in very bad taste. Almost to the point of being offensive.

This book has no charm. It has none of the wonderful people from Mitchard. THere are no fun, witty people. No jokes & stories. No unusual people with interesting foibles. I was really looking forward to this book. And I am deeply disappointed in it. I realize any author wants to try new things. I am sure Ms Karon got tired of writing about the same people from the same little town. But even when she moved Father Tim to another town, it worked. This book does not work. It is like a neighbor or some distant cousin wrote this book instead of Ms Karon. I can fine none of her talent in the words.

Summary of Home to Holly Springs (Father Tim, Book 1)

Readers of the nine bestselling Mitford novels have been captivated by Jan Karon?s ?gift for illuminating the struggles that creep into everyday lives?along with a vividly imagined world? (People). Millions have relished the story of the bookish and big-hearted Episcopal priest and the fullness of his seemingly ordinary life. Now, in the first novels of a new series, Jan Karon enchants us with the story of the newly retired priest?s spur-of-the-moment adventure. For the first time in decades, Father Tim returns to his birthplace, Holly Springs, Mississippi, in response to a mysterious, unsigned note saying simply: ?Come home.? A story of long-buried secrets, forgiveness, and the wonder of discovering new people, places, and depth of feeling, Home to Holly Springs will enthrall new readers and longtime fans alike.

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