Father Tim

I just finished In the Company of Others, the most recent Jan Karon book.  I am glad to hear the third book in the Father Tim series is in the works.  I am sad that there is not another one waiting on my bookshelf.  Although this is a work of fiction, Father Tim's wife, Cynthia, said it best of page 340 of this book:  "I'm going to miss all the dead people we're reading about...They seem so very alive." In Winston, I sometimes heard, "He/she's good people." (Yes, bad English, but it describes someone who's good to the core.)  The Mitford characters are good people, and I have laughed at their calamities, been counseled by lessons within, and cried at their passing.  I read so much, I rarely get as emotionally involved as I have in these books (of course, there have been 12 of them...) I impatiently await the publication of the last book, whenever it may be!