Mrs. Mike

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Summary: An old favorite with a new meaning
Review: This book is my all-time favorite. I first read it as a teenager, and recently found a copy at [local book review] after many years of thinking I'd never see the book again! It is an uncomplicated story of love and life in the early 20th Century in the Northwest Territory. As a young girl, the places referred to in the book were just names. Now they are real.

My daughter moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchuwan last year. She is married and has a baby boy. When re-reading Mrs. Mike last night, the first city mentioned was Regina, SK. I've been there on the way to Saskatoon! Edmonton is not far from Saskatoon, either.

I've always loved this book's simple love story, but did not remember that the part of Canada the story was set in was where my daughter actually lives. It seems that my daughter and Katherine Mary have a lot in common!

Saskatchuwan is beautiful! I did not have the opportunity to visit the Northwest Territory, but through Mrs. Mike, I feel as if I have already been there!

I am so grateful that the authors chose to re-release this book, and am waiting anxiously for the sequel, The Search for Joyful!

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Summary: One of my absolute favorites of all time!
Review: I had never heard of MRS. MIKE until I came across a raving review of it at allaboutromance.com. I found a copy at the library and couldn't put it down. As soon as I finished reading it, I quickly purchased my own copy and as I write this review I can see it sitting on my desktop. It makes me happy just knowing that this book exists and just looking at the cover makes me smile. I am a very, very picky reader and won't suggest a book unless it is awesome. I quickly e-mailed everyone on my e-mail list about this book. My aunt couldn't believe it when she read my message. She had read MRS. MIKE years and years ago in middle school and remembered everything about the book all this time later. We talked for hours about it over the phone. That weekend she went and purchased a copy for her daughter, who, of course, loved it as much as we did. It may sound trite, but if I could only have two books, I would choose my bible and MRS. MIKE.

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Summary: Mrs. Mike
Review: As with many of your other reviwers, I first read this book 30-some years ago, as a teen, or a young adult. The images have stayed with me lo these many years!! What a wonderful gamut of emotions I experience each and every time I re-read it (once every few years!)
When reading about the epidemic as a teen, my thoughts were, "Oh, how sad." Reading about it as an adult, I thought, "Oh, how tragic." Reading about it after I had become a mother, my tears would not stop.
What a wonderful, sparkling, then despairing, finally content and loving relationship between Mike & Kathy! The desciptions of the vast wilderness and its people are humorous, breathtaking and heart-breaking. What a wonderful reading experience! I can't wait to get my own copy (the local library's is wearing out!) so I can pass it on to my daughter when I feel she's old enough to appreciate all that is Mrs. Mike!

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Summary: Meeting a Long Lost Friend
Review: My aunt gave me her copy of Mrs. Mike 26 years ago. I was so enthralled with the book that I insisted a friend read it, who was so enthralled with it that she insisted I gave it to her, rather than loaned it to her. Scenes from the book have remained with me for years--Mrs. Mike meeting her future husband, Mrs. Mike moving to her new house and delighting in flowers a new neighbor had planted for her, and an especially unforgettable scene about burnt toast. Twenty six years later, having found the book again, I laughed, I cried, I wished all love could be so tender and understanding.

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Summary: A different view the second, and third time around
Review: Nearly 40 years ago, as a 15 year old girl, I took this book from my parent's bookcase on a cold, Sunday in March. I held out little hope because it was my mother's book, but I was bored and had run out of library books. From the opening page I was enthralled. I read all afternoon and into the evening. The love story of Kathy and Mike appealed to my young, romantic heart. But as I moved into the middle of the book, I missed the romance and found it less exciting. Their married life was not as romantic as their courtship. I read it again twenty years later and saw a different book, one about a maturing marriage and the problems it faced. It seemed much more relevant as a 35 year old mother. I read it again a couple years ago and saw even more in the story; it became a much richer novel each time I read it.

This book was a wise purchase by my mother in 1947 for it has continued to live, and grow. As a girl it was a love story, 40 years later it is the portrait of a marriage. I found a copy in a used book, just like my mother's. I will read it again.

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Summary: The Enduring Mrs. Mike
Review: I first found an old copy of this book in my highschool library when I was in grade 9. I have no idea what compelled me to take it out the first time but I loved it so well I took it out again, and again, and again... When I recently moved to Calgary , I remembered this book about Kathy, her journey, and her love-affair with her Mounty. I looked it up and was overjoyed to find it available.

Re-reading the book has been wonderful. As the book is written in the first-person, there is truly a sense of looking through young Katharine Mary O'Fallon's eyes as she leaves the sophisticated world of Boston to enter the relatively undeveloped North. The authors have also managed to convey, without sentimentality, the harshness of frontier life and have portrayed aboriginal peoples and their lifestyle respectfully.

As I was telling a friend of mine about this book, she said, "oh, Mrs. Mike! I loved that book... it made such a huge impression on me... can you still get it?"

I'm so glad this book is in print 24 years after I first discovered it... the best testimony to the book's enduring appeal. Hooray for Mrs. Mike.

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Summary: The Best Book I've read so far.
Review: ...My mom read this book when she was about my age and loved it, so when she found it again she got me to read it. I loved the story of Kathy and Mike. I couldn't put the book down. I would recomend this book to anyone. It's great.

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Summary: Mrs. Mike
Review: I first read this book when I was 16 years old and I am now 55! I have to say that I am still reading it because of how well it's written, the story content and the pure joy of reading such a wonderful story.

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Summary: A timeless love story
Review: Although I first read this story over 40 years ago when I was in 8th grade, it is just as much a joy to read today as it was then. I now have three granddaughters, and have passed the book to them in hopes that they will enjoy the story as much as I did (and still do!). I hope the Freedman's know how many readers have enjoyed Mrs. Mike over the years, and that generations to come will enjoy it.

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Summary: Quick Read
Review: Interesting Enough Book. Although I felt that too much "action" was packed in the book, you did not get to really know the characters that well as they were just jumping from one adventure/tragedy to the next...