![]() And mostly the seromonettes seemed theologically sound and even profound at times. The townfolk were also a mixed bag of semi-saintly and sanctimonious. This renders him rather less lovable to me, but perhaps more realistic all the same. The pastor/narrator does not suffer from an excess of the wisdom or even piety that so infects Father Tim of the Mitford series. (Although in this case it would work either way.) In "Harmony," each chapter is a loosely connected anecdote from the life of one of the denizens of the small Mid-Western town of Harmony, its Friends Meeting, or said Meeting's pastor (who is also the narrator.) Each chapter concludes with a pithy sermonette. It is, as the book jacket indicates, a cross between Jan Karon's "Mitford" series and Garrison Keillor's "Lake Woebegone" tales - a genre I've tentatively decided to call "Nostalgic Pastoral Fiction," with "Pastoral" used in its older sense rather than its religious one. ![]() This is one of those books I'd like to give a 3.5 ![]()
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