A Common Life

Jan Karon’s Mitford series is one of my all-time favorite book series. So this is not a review of the books. It is a complaint about the seller. This was presented as a new copy of the hardcover version of “A Common Life”. I purchased it as a gift for my mom but it came in horrible shape. As the pictures show, the cover is worn, wrinkled, and torn and there is writing inside the cover. Beware if you’re buying books from this seller – especially if they’re for a gift! I would have preferred to have taken my complaint directly to the seller, instead of going through reviews, but Amazon’s new format makes that next to impossible.

Very pleased with the audio book and the people that sent it to me THE TALKING BOOKSTORE.. We love the Father Tim/Mitford books My very elderly mother can barely see these days and these audio books are just the thing. She listens to them over and over so she makes sure she gets every nuance.. At this point I have bought all of them all over the country from various dealers, have not been disappointed, most are used…

What a money grab. The cost:content ratio is ridiculously low. I wish I’d saved my money and skipped this unnecessary novella. It adds absolutely nothing to the story. As others have noted, it should have been a few chapters in book 4.
Don’t waste your time or money.

I’m so glad she wrote this. I felt really ripped off when the wedding wasn’t included in the regular books. It was an easy, fun read and you got to see how the entire town felt about the father’s wedding. I laughed out loud several times.

When we first received our copy of this book, we had two thoughts. (1) Hadn’t we already read about the wedding? (2) The book is somewhat large for so little text. After confirming that we had not read the wedding story in one of Karon’s earlier volumes, we settled down to read her most recent offering.
We were not disappointed. The story that unfolds in “A Common Life” is anything but common, to use the vernacular. The author graces us with her vision of what a Christian marriage should be like, and dishes out an uncommon amount of good advice for how a couple should get started in building a successful married life. (Of course, the “common” in the title is actually referring to two people who share one life in a solid marriage.)
On the other hand, we would have preferred if the book had been considerably smaller in size. Since we purchased it sight unseen, we cannot complain that its moderately large physical size was misleading. To those who pick it up off a shelf in a store without looking inside, however, there is almost certain to be disappointment. A small volume (“marriage missal” size) that one could carry in one’s pocket would have been more agreeable. I hope, however, that this does not keep anyone from buying the book. It is well worth the price!

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