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Summary: Mrs. Mike
Review: Mrs. Mike is an amazing and touching love story between two strangers from completely different worlds. As their love grows for one another they learn that they have to adapt to each other's lives to make their own work. I recommend this book to people all ages. It's incredible how Kathy, the main character, has to learn to live the opposite life than which she was taught. She makes herself into an independent young woman just in awe of the world outside of her. As she falls in love with Mike, she learns to love and respect all her surroundings. This book has a great message and an extravagent plot.
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Summary: Mrs. Mike from a teenagers piont of view
Review: Mrs. Mike, written by Benedict and Nancy Freedman, is a heart warming love story of a young Boston girl who fell in love and married a rugged Canadian Mountie. It tells all about the troublesome and joyful times this young married couple share, but the catch is theyÕre living in CanadaÕs wild and frightening terrain.
Katherine Mary OÕFallon is a sixteen year old girl who has a decease called pleurisy and is moving from Boston to Canada, because it was better for her lungs. She was living with her Uncle when she meet Sergeant Mike Flannigan. He was a Mountie for the Canadian Government. They fell in love and eventually got married. They moved to HundsonÕs Hope where Mike was stationed.
Kathy had to deal with the fact that she might never see her family again. For she had chosen the life with Mike and was living in apart of Canada that is very isolated. It took her a while to adjust to her new life style, but as more time passed on the more comfortable she became and the more their love for each other grew. She quickly learned that Canada is no Boston and has many dangers that she has to deal with. Some of the dangers were icy, cold weather, Grizzly Bears, wolves, disease and viruses, fires. The thing that she had the most trouble with was when someone was caught with one of these dangers.
I thought that they book was okay. Although it was well written and had a good story it just wasnÕt my type of book. I believe that it had a very good lesson to learn. It taught me that when and if you find real true love like this you will go through the best and worst of times together, but in the end love never fails. This book also reminded me of 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8. Ò Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily. angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves. Love never fails.Ó
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Summary: A Wonderful book
Review: Mrs. Mike was a fantastic book. It was full of emotional and physical conflicts. It amazed me how this was a true story, Katerine Mary had to go throught so many struggles in her life, and she got through them, maybe not right away but she kept the faith, which is somthing everyone needs to do daily. This Book makes me want to be just like Katerine Mary. I would definaly recommed this book to anyone and everyone, Male Or Female.
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Summary: Best Book I have Ever Read.
Review: I first read Mrs Mike in high school. It belonged to the school libary and I remember rechecking it out several times. The story of Love set in the Canadian Wilderness touched me in such a way that for years it always stayed with me. Then I was given the book at the company I worked at for several years. I was estatic it once again was being released. Last year I saw where Nancy Freedman had a double book out, Mrs Mike and O Be Joyful. I purchased it and another story that has found its way to my heart. I highly reccommend Mrs Mike to anyone who wishes to experience True Love and especially this story. Once you read it you will never forget it.
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Summary: So glad I visited these old friends again!
Review: I literally can't remember when I read this book for the first time. What I do recall is how much I enjoyed it, although I certainly was too young to understand the romance between Katherine Mary O'Fallon of Boston and Sgt. Mike Flannigan of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. To me it was simply a grand adventure set in the Far North, with (always a plus!) a young woman protagonist.I finished re-reading "Mrs. Mike" last night, and I know exactly why it's considered a classic. Everything I loved about it in my girlhood is still there, with the grand adventure even more powerful to my more realistic adult imagination - but now the rest of the story is accessible to me as well. And I can only say: Magnificent! Because this is that rare and wonderful thing, a love story about women and men as they really are. The stark realism of life as Kathy and Mike face it, in a land that's isolated, dangerous, and at times nightmarishly brutal, makes the happiness they find together shine all the more brightly. It also gives new meaning to the phrase "dearly bought." The same applies to the friendships Kathy finds with other women, each of whom is a memorable character in her own right. I am so glad I visited these old friends again!
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Summary: Mrs. Mike: based on the true life of Mary O"Fallon Flannigan
Review: I first read this book as a young girl in the 50's as a Reader's Digest Condensed book. I was transported then to the wilds of Canada and caught up in the true life of Katherine Mary O'Fallon Flannigan, and reading it again in 2003, it is still the same great story. Not many people will realize until they read the back page of the book that the Freedman's met the heroine in Los Angeles and her story inspired them to write this book. It is a story of young love, hardship and heartbreak and takes place in the early 1900's. The main characters come to life in this book. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Celeste's Creative Review
Review: Mrs. Mike is a true story that took place years ago. It tells you about the life of Katherine Mary, or Kathy. Kathy has a disease and is sent to her Uncle John's house in the mountains. Kathy meets a man there named Mike. Mike is transferred to a town full of Indians. He is the doctor, police officer, and mayor of the town. Needless to say, they have a pretty busy life. Kathy has to move there with Mike because of their marriage. Now Kathy has to learn how to live and love in a different atmosphere. With troubles along the road does she stay married with Mike?? Move back home?? Does her disease catch up with her life?? Find out after you read this great book!
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Summary: A perfect combination of romance and wilderness
Review: Mrs. Mike is a terrific book about Katherine Mary Flannigan who falls in love with a Sergeant Mike Flannigan of the Canadian Mounted Police. Through this book you can experience the many hardships and joys of living in the wilderness. I would recommend it to anyone who likes adventure books, romance books, or books about remote places. Mrs. Mike gave me an insight into life in the wilderness.
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Summary: First book to ever make me cry
Review: I read this book over 30 years ago when I was a teen. It was the first book that ever made me cry while I was reading--a feat until then I thought impossible. The book is written with such passion and tenderness I never forgot it. So when I was walking through a book store and saw the 2002 editon out, I grabbed it. Its following, while news to me, was not surprising. I can only remember the instruction as a new writer, that if I'm not feeling the passion, my reader wouldn't either. So, there I was, writing "Forever Retro Blues," crying my eyes out (another new experience--writing and crying). The authors of "Mrs. Mike" must have had many tissues to get through this. All I can say is that when the experience of reading a book and the title stick with you for your life, despite not hearing anything else about it for over 30 years, it had to be an impressive story and an great telling of that story.
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Summary: loved it before, niece will love it now
Review: when i was fourteen (almost 30 years ago!), my beloved late aunt, a sixth grade school teacher who was extremely well-educated and well-travelled, gave me this book to read. i loved it. it had everything - an interesting story that provided a fabulous escape to me (a NJ teenager at the time), romance, love, and compassion for all living things - and i savored it, obviously remembering it many years later, as i just bought a copy for my niece, who's 13. i know she will love it too. this is one of the best books ever written.
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