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Summary: Mrs. Mike is timeless love!!!
Review: Mrs. Mike is one of those wonderful books that comes along only once or twice in a lifetime. I read this book thirty years ago and still search for original hard copies of it today. Problem is every time I find one, a friend or relative, fondly exclaims over this book. What can I do but give them a copy?! What a timeless, wonderful book. karen
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Summary: I finally found it!
Review: I have been looking for this book for over 30 years.
I loved it when I was a child and can't wait to read it again.
I am so glad I found Amazon on the net.
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Summary: Charming
Review: "Mrs. Mike" was a charming and tender love story! I just finished reading it for the second time. I loved it so much more then before! I understood alot more of what she had to go through. The end is so beautiful. The whole book is a beautiful story about a girl who goes to Canada when she is 16 with her husband Mike. You must read it. I gained so much understanding.
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: This is a very engaging historical romance. Set in the early 1900s, it is the story of young Boston woman who marries a Canadian Mounty and settles with him in the Northern Canadian wilderness. I was captivated by how much they grew to love the lifestyle, despite wildfires, plagues and harsh wilderness conditions. This story can be enjoyed by young and old alike.
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Summary: Mrs. Mike
Review: I have read the most recent reviews before me of Mrs. Mike and I cannot believe that anyone could find this story boring or not see it for the love story that it is...I just picked it up to read again for the first time since my early twenties and I am every bit as enthralled as I was when my sixth grade teacher first read it to my class back in 1969-70. Having first heard this story at the very impressionable age of 11 or 12, this is a book that has stayed with me through all these years and is a part of me, woven into the tapestry of my own life. It is part of the foundation built during my childhood for my own beliefs and attitudes towards life and love and all the accompanying hardships and joys. I cried when I found the newest publication of it in a little bookstore in Rangely, Maine last summer, along with the accompanying forward by the Freedmans about the overwhelming responses they had recieved about it via e-mail, and how this had inspired them to write the sequel, "Search for Joyful" which I cannot wait to delve into as well. I hope to inspire my 12 year old daughter to read Mrs. Mike after me, as well because I think it inspires such an appreciation for life that is lacking in this "I want everything yesterday," world we live in today....
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Summary: Mrs. Mike... and my teen view of it
Review: My friend read this book a couple weeks ago because our Language Arts teacher recommended it to her and if a teacher recomends it she has to read it because she's kind of teacher's pet. Anyways she told me that I absolutely had to read it. It looked really corny and boring- I mean come on I'm thirteen!- so I thought of every possible reason to not have yet started it. But I was really bored one day and just picked it up and started to read... and read... and read... and read... and- you get the point. I read until I finished. I stayed up until four in the morning on school nights for three days!!! Unlike most people that wrote a review I just read this book about a week ago and now am trying to get my mom to read it also. I love horror. Absolutely love it. R.L. Stine is my role model okay? Well this book was definitly a change. I cried for over two hours the night I finished it- my pillow was soaked- then I cried the next day talking about it to my friend. This is my favorite book of all time but I don't understand whether or not this is a true story because in the front it says that the story is completely fictional but in About The Author it says that Katherine Mary Flannigan helped to so I really just don't understand! Is it true or not!?!
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Summary: Mrs. Mike
Review: Every review I have read about this book is how it's a wonderful love story. How did I miss that part? This is a book that has stayed with me for years, yes, not because it was a love story, but because of this God awful hard life she chose in the name of "love". She lost her small children to diphtheria. That's the part I remember, that cruelty. It was a way of life for these people. They buried them and started their "second family", is how I believe they referred to it. It's a good read about a very hard chosen (for Mrs. Mike) lifestyle, but I would hardly call it a love story.
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: This is a very engaging historical romance. Set in the early 1900s, it is the story of young Boston woman who marries a Canadian Mounty and settles with him in the Northern Canadian wilderness. I was captivated by how much they grew to love the lifestyle, despite wildfires, plagues and harsh wilderness conditions. This story can be enjoyed by young and old alike.
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Summary: Charming
Review: "Mrs. Mike" was a charming and tender love story! I just finished reading it for the second time. I loved it so much more then before! I understood alot more of what she had to go through. The end is so beautiful. The whole book is a beautiful story about a girl who goes to Canada when she is 16 with her husband Mike. You must read it. I gained so much understanding.
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Summary: History a little flawed
Review: I first read this book as a Reader's Digest condensed book when I was growing up, and remember loving it. This time around, the story seemed a little dated. Maybe it was the writing, I don't know. But what really spoiled the story was the complete inaccuracy on the part of the authors. Yes, I know this is a work of fiction, but it is supposed to be based on a "true story." So I have to wonder; did the Freemans completely make this up? Or did Kathy Flannigan just tell them a tall tale? Or was her story not exciting enough, so the authors saw fit to fabricate it a bit?I love geography, so I looked at a map as I read about Kathy's journey North, and it was kind of fun. The first part of the book sounds about right, from her journey to Calgary and then to the Northwest Territories with Mike. Then after about a year, they relocate to Grouard, which is where the fiction sets in. According to the Freemans, Grouard, in Northern Alberta, was a wild and primitive place, and Sgt. Mike played the role of doctor, policeman, judge, jury, and whatever else. Uh, I don't think so. By the time that Kathy and Mike arrived in Grouard, it was a bustling town of about 1,000 residents. There were several doctors in the town, including specialists, a whole division of Canadian Mounted police, a skating rink, a department store...need I continue? While still isolated and rough, it was not the town depicted in Mrs. Mike. Certainly, when the diphtheria epidemic broke out, people would have been calling the doctors, not Sgt. Mike! All of the medical problems and injuries described there would have been attended by trained physicians, not Kathy, or Mike. And when Kathy is so stunned to see "motor cars" when she returns to Boston--well, Grouard had two motor cars by 1913. You would think that the Freemans would have either checked up on Kathy Flannigan's story if this is really what she told them, or at least have the sense to make up a fictious "wild" town. It really spoiled the story for me, after I looked up the history of Grouard, and found out that this was all made up. So for anyone picking up this book, it's pure fiction. Not a true story at all.
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