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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
I loved this book. I was probably 12 the first time I read this novel. I read it many, many times as I was growing up.
I loved the story of Kathy and Mike. It's not the best written book, but it's delightful and entertaining. Kathy goes to northern Canada as a young, innocent girl and falls in love with a rugged Mountie. The books shares their story of love and hardship in an unforgiving wilderness: friendship and loss; childbirth and death. How much of it is actually true has been debated. Regardless, it's a delightful adventure.
The Freedmans have written a couple of sequels: The Search for Joyful and Kathy Little Bird.
I loved the story of Kathy and Mike. It's not the best written book, but it's delightful and entertaining. Kathy goes to northern Canada as a young, innocent girl and falls in love with a rugged Mountie. The books shares their story of love and hardship in an unforgiving wilderness: friendship and loss; childbirth and death. How much of it is actually true has been debated. Regardless, it's a delightful adventure.
The Freedmans have written a couple of sequels: The Search for Joyful and Kathy Little Bird.
A tender love story set in the raw, canadian wilderness. A very good book.
This story is sad and beautiful, heartbreaking and eyeopening. The story of a young woman from the East coast who meets and falls in love with a Mountie who is posted to the North.
I picked up this favorite that I had read so many times in my childhood. It is interesting to see it through adult eyes, rather than a teenager that had not experienced life as I have now.
I saw the love, the heartache and how it was a true love story, which means the grief is there. I could feel the pain, the joy and understand a bit more. I really loved it again, albeit for different reasons.
I saw the love, the heartache and how it was a true love story, which means the grief is there. I could feel the pain, the joy and understand a bit more. I really loved it again, albeit for different reasons.
Kathy goes to live with an uncle and falls in love with a Canadian Mountie. Together they start a family in the wilds of northern Canada. Life is very different for Kathy as she faces primitive conditions, disease and a rugged life. Will the family survive? Will her love for Mike Flannigan survive?
I enjoyed this story about life and love in the Canadian Northwest at the turn of the last century. A coming of age, as well as a love story, it was a well told story of a young girl who meets the man of her dreams and ends up living through unexpected trails while learning what it means to love.
The book gives a glimpse into life in the far north of Canada, and therefore has that "Little House on the Prairie" feel. I found it a bit slow at times but things really picked up in the last third, which was the best part of the book. So all in all, I felt it was special, not to be missed.
This is one of those word of mouth books that someone mentioned to me, and I will probably mention to several someone's over my life. It's not new, it was published several decades ago, but it's subject matter and incredible readability make it something of a classic.
Told in the first person, it's about a young girl who moves to Canada to live with her uncle in the early 1900s. Her health isn't terrific- like so many she's trying the prairie cure, but along with cleaner air than the city of Boston can offer, she finds Mike Flannigan, a charming young Mounty. She marries him and heads off to his next assignment, the Canadian wilderness. What follows is an adventurous joyful, sometimes heartwrenching discovery of life in Alberta amongst the Indians and fur trappers. Not for the faint of heart, the couple endures ups and downs, bears, disease, etc. absolutely fascinating, with a great deal of detail about Indians and their interactions with the Mounty and his wife. Don't treat this as a romance, as you'll go right through the wringer with everyone.
Told in the first person, it's about a young girl who moves to Canada to live with her uncle in the early 1900s. Her health isn't terrific- like so many she's trying the prairie cure, but along with cleaner air than the city of Boston can offer, she finds Mike Flannigan, a charming young Mounty. She marries him and heads off to his next assignment, the Canadian wilderness. What follows is an adventurous joyful, sometimes heartwrenching discovery of life in Alberta amongst the Indians and fur trappers. Not for the faint of heart, the couple endures ups and downs, bears, disease, etc. absolutely fascinating, with a great deal of detail about Indians and their interactions with the Mounty and his wife. Don't treat this as a romance, as you'll go right through the wringer with everyone.
I really wanted to like this book, and the story of the main characters is compelling, but for a book that is supposed to be “wholesome” the treatment of the Native people (especially women) was so upsetting that it made it too hard to enjoy. I’m sure it’s an accurate (or possibly even sanitized) depiction of how things were at the time but it isn’t the uplifting sort of read that it’s billed as!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Physical abuse, Racism