My Beloved
Just finished reading "My Beloved" by Jan Karon, published by Putnam in 2025.
I can almost the outrage now because Jan Karon is a renowned writer of Christian fiction and I am a Conservative Jew. I've never had a problem reading good writing that tells a compelling story and I greatly enjoyed the "Bless Me, Father" series by Neil Boyd which chronicled the life of a Catholic Priest in an English Parish.
Karon's first novel in the to date in her beloved Mitford series, which is now up to 15-novels with the recent publication of "My Beloved," "At Home In Mitford" began life as a series of "Father Tim" stories that were published in the pages of the Blowing Rock Newspaper back in 1988, before a small Christian publishing house printed the first three novels in the series before an editor at Penguin decided to acquire the publishing rights to the Mitford novels, and interestingly enough, not without some pushback because mainstream publishing at the time did not believe that Christian fiction was viable. Karon's books about life in the fictional town of Mitford, North Carolina quickly flew off the shelves of bookstores and landed the author at the top of the New York Times Bestselling List with every book she wrote.
As Father Timothy and Cynthia prepare for Thanksgiving holiday, he asks her what she wants for Christmas, and she responds that she wants just a handwritten love letter, which he writes, but somehow it gets lost and makes its way across various people in Mitford and makes a powerful impact on the lives of the people who read it by accident as it makes it way back just in time for Father Timothy to read it to Cynthia.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/My-Beloved-Mit...
I can almost the outrage now because Jan Karon is a renowned writer of Christian fiction and I am a Conservative Jew. I've never had a problem reading good writing that tells a compelling story and I greatly enjoyed the "Bless Me, Father" series by Neil Boyd which chronicled the life of a Catholic Priest in an English Parish.
Karon's first novel in the to date in her beloved Mitford series, which is now up to 15-novels with the recent publication of "My Beloved," "At Home In Mitford" began life as a series of "Father Tim" stories that were published in the pages of the Blowing Rock Newspaper back in 1988, before a small Christian publishing house printed the first three novels in the series before an editor at Penguin decided to acquire the publishing rights to the Mitford novels, and interestingly enough, not without some pushback because mainstream publishing at the time did not believe that Christian fiction was viable. Karon's books about life in the fictional town of Mitford, North Carolina quickly flew off the shelves of bookstores and landed the author at the top of the New York Times Bestselling List with every book she wrote.
As Father Timothy and Cynthia prepare for Thanksgiving holiday, he asks her what she wants for Christmas, and she responds that she wants just a handwritten love letter, which he writes, but somehow it gets lost and makes its way across various people in Mitford and makes a powerful impact on the lives of the people who read it by accident as it makes it way back just in time for Father Timothy to read it to Cynthia.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
TEN STARS!
https://www.amazon.com/My-Beloved-Mit...
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