At Home In Mitford by: Jan Karon
Week3
I thought for this week, since we are now at the end of the book, it would be fun to discuss some of the Reader’s Guide discussion questions. I found these in the back of my book, but you can also find them on Jan Karon’s website.
What role [...]
At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
Chapters 9 - 16
These 8 chapters were filled with so many events, surprises and revelations it’s hard to know where to begin the discussion. So I’ll just run through some of the biggest developments in the story line.
Father Tim met his neighbor for the first time. I think the [...]
Personally, I find the wonderfully written characters to be one of the most engaging and memorable aspects of At Home in Mitford. So far in these first 8 chapters, we have been introduced, at least partially, to many of the characters we’ll grow to love throughout the book.
Here’s just a brief recap of some of [...]
Like Mother, Like Daughter. We are a family who live in Central Massachusetts. My husband is a Boston Irish Catholic from a big family. His upbringing was smack dab in the middle of respectable Catholic America, not untinged by 60s unrest.
I am about as different from him as you can get: I’m an only child, my parents are divorced, my father was an immigrant from Egypt, I was raised on the cutting edge of the feminist/relativist/sexual self-fulfillment/diversity revolution. My upbringing was smack dab in the middle of 70s hippie snotty know-it-all America, not untinged by anomie.
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