Chapter One Hundred Ninety-Nine: To Be Where You Are

Basically, as soon as another Mitford novel is published, I'm already anticipating the next one, so I was super excited for Jan Karon's latest, To Be Where You Are, and it definitely delivered the entirely enjoyable read I was expecting!  As this sprawling series (I believe this is book 14) progresses, the cast of characters whose perspective we get widens, which I really enjoy--especially because it keeps me on my toes each time I have to figure out who's narrating now.  If you haven't read the previous books, I wouldn't start here, since there's so much previous knowledge you'd need about all of the characters, but the flip side of this is that, for someone like me who's been following Karon's Mitford  stories for more than a decade now, they truly feel like real people who could actually be living in (fictional) Mitford, North Carolina, and as always, I was so happy to return to them once more.  If you're looking for a homey, small-town kind of read for this winter, and you've got time to spare, I'd definitely give this series (the first is At Home in Mitford) a try--I certainly enjoy it.