Gone to Green: Gone to Green Series - Book 1

Here's a Christian fiction novel with the protagonist running from God, much like Jonah. Instead of ending up in the belly of a "great fish," she ends up in the friendly, small town of Green, Louisiana, as the new owner of the local newspaper. She discovers, along with the reader, some good folks

and some shady people. Her plan is to hang on for one year, get the paper on its feet, sell it, and return to her big city newspaper job. It's interesting to watch her struggles to accomplish this goal.

Written in first person narrative, this book grabs the reader's interest and keeps it until the end.

Chapter fifteen contains a remarkably clear tutorial on how to find God's will. That alone is worth the price of the novel. Discussion questions are included.

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LibraryThing member mmoj

Gone to Green is a novel about Lois who inherits a newspaper in a small town called Green. Lois has been so busy with her current position and is now poised for a promotion that she's not sure about this change in her life but she decides to give it a year for her friend. Thus begins a journey to

find out about herself, about what she's capable of; her faith and how to fill what has been missing in her life because of her devotion to the previous job. Along the way she finds out about Southern hospitality about Go's' s calling for each of us and what it really means to be a part is a small town. Good book and am looking forward to reading more of the series.

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LibraryThing member JenniferRobb

This book had a little of everything.

Ed finds a newspaper in Louisiana to buy and run in his retirement. But before the deal goes through, Ed dies. In his will, he leaves the paper to his colleague, Lois, but she has to keep it for a year before she can do anything else with it.

Over the course of

that year, Lois revises her opinion of the town several times. She makes a number of friends, exposes corruption and deceit, and organizes a number of events to help the town. Still, for whatever reason, she's convinced she's going to sell the paper and go back to working in the newsroom of a bigger paper in a more happening locale.

Man, I wish I had a nice friend who'd give me a successful business that I loved doing. (Though I guess he didn't really give it to her since she did have a note at a bank.) And that the business I got had employees like Lois got (with an exception or two).

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