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Title: Julie by Catherine Marshall ISBN: 0-310-24620-2 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Marshall's last book is one of her best
Comment: Julie Wallace is 18 when her family moves to a small town in Pennsylvania. Her father has invested the family savings in a floundering newspaper. Julie becomes its star reporter and, in the year the book covers, she matures into a lovely young woman.
Exploitative labor practices in the local steel mill, a minister who defies the town powers to provide support for downtrodden workers, Julie's youthful idealism, her father's illness and struggle to build his newspaper and establish himself in the community all combine with teenage awakening and a couple of natural disasters to make a highly entertaining and spiritually enlightening book. Turns out the book is autobiographical and it's at least as successful as Marshall's CHRISTY.
Marshall's style is light and entertaining, never "preachy." But she gets a message across by demonstrating the power of faith and love in her characters' lives. Characters are full and vibrant, the story line moves tantalizingly and the language of the book is delightful.
I can't imagine anyone not enjoying JULIE.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderfully delightful adventures with the Wallace family
Comment: After seeing the television series "Christy" I was very interested in reading more of Catherine Marshall's book. I went to my local library and found Julie. Julie is the daughter of a former preacher, now editor of a the local paper in Alderton, Pennsylvania. The story is set during the heart of the depression in the 1930's. Julie Wallace is an 18 year old senior and an up and coming reporter for her father's extremly small paper. Julie now becoming a fine woman is dealing with her emontions of both a family and romantic nature. The main conflict in the story is within Julie herself, but the physical climax is when the area dam breaks. After this the whole town must pull together and become one again. Julie is a wonderful book, so much so that I couldn't put it down. I'd recommend it to anyone with the soul for old fashion romance and time for a good book
Rating: 2
Summary: JULIE Causes Irritation, Exitement
Comment: Catherine Marshall's Julie: in a word, incredible. But not always incredibly good.
We meet Julie Wallace, a young lady going into her senior year in high school, first while she is with her family in their car going towards their new home. Within the first five pages, she is covered in mud. (This event happens several times over the course of the book, and each time it is less funny.) The reason Julie is in the mud? A young British man named Randolph "Rand" Wilkinson. Like a typical teenage girl, Julie is giggly and clumsy in front of a cute guy.
The Wallace family is heading to Alderton, where Mr. Wallace (formerly Rev.) has decided he wants to run Alderton's paper, The Sentinel. In a another typical fashion, the Wallace family is mostly ill-received after proving to be a "stuck-together, hard-working family" who always, always, seems to do the right thing. One of these "right things" is taking a great stand on the Yoder Steel/McKeevers issue.
The McKeevers are a very important family in Alderton. They control almost every store, company, and house. They also control the Yoder Steel plant, where they treat their workers like dirt. After several members of the Alderton community try to help this by wanting to have it be a Union company, Mr. McKeever, Sr., just turns downright nasty. The Wallaces run pieces in The Sentinel criticizing the conditions of the dam and, in a very unlikely fashion, Mr. McKeever pays people to go in and destroy The Sentinel press, office, and workers.
One day, however, it starts to rain. Alderton has suffered many terrible floods before, but this one is simply devastation. The huge dam (the one that caused so much controversy) breaks, sending thousands and thousands of gallons of water crashing into Alderton and its surrounding counties.
The flood is Catherine Marshall's strong point. While during the rest of the book writing is somewhat weak and young, her ability to so accurately describe the flood of 1937 is incredible. Her details and graphic descriptions are both horrifying and gruesome, and the only part of the book that captivated me. Her epilogue is also one of the strongest points in the book. You see how everything has turned out 50 years after the flood. You see that Julie and Rand have been married (of course), and how they are still so happily in love after all these years (of course), and that they have a wonderful family (of course), and how they still have joyful reunions (of course).
All in all, reading the beginning of the book was like trudging through sludge. The language and dialogue were very young and boring. There were so many subplots that it was hard to keep track of them all and to stay interested. But the ending is likeable and certainly provides for excitement. Grade: C+
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Title: Christy by Catherine Marshall ISBN: 0380001411 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 July, 1976 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Man Called Peter: The Story of Peter Marshall by Catherine Marshall ISBN: 0800793110 Publisher: Chosen Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Adventures in Prayer by Catherine Marshall ISBN: 0345347552 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Something More by Catherine Marshall ISBN: 0800792998 Publisher: Chosen Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Beyond Our Selves by Catherine Marshall ISBN: 0800792963 Publisher: Chosen Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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