HOME TO HOLLY SPRINGS

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Jan Karon, the bestselling author of the Mitford Series has done it again. Her first book in a new series, Home to Holly Springs is entertaining. It is a fun way to spend some time lost in “another world.” The setting is Mississippi and the language is southern—real southern! Tim Kavanagh left his Mississippi hometown, determined not to return. After thirty-eight years he receives a message that causes him to go back. The cryptic, unsigned note simply says, Come home.

I think it would take more than that to get me back to Oklahoma—but who knows. He just went for a brief visit but that visit led him to a truth that would change his life—forever.

Grab a copy of Home to Holly Springs, curl up by the fire and wile away a winter day. You don’t have a copy and can’t afford to buy one? Borrow one from the library. That’s where I got mine. While you are there you may find something else you like. They have a lot of books, containing a lot of words. Rudyard Kipling said, “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”