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Title: The Search for Joyful by Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman ISBN: 0-425-18833-7 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Could never equal the original, but still an okay read...
Comment: I read MRS. MIKE for the very first time recently and it has quickly joined my top "5 best books ever" list. Therefore, no matter what, I don't think this book could have ever equaled it in any way. There was a lot of good writing here and a good story, but it got bogged down. Personally, I would have liked some parts to have been shortened and others expanded upon. I would have loved to have heard more about Kathy's growing up with Mrs. Mike and Sgt. Mike and the twins and more about what happened with Crazy Dancer and the daughter. Overall, it was an enjoyable read.
Rating: 1
Summary: Not a sequel to Mrs. Mike
Comment: The cover of this book says "The story of Mrs. Mike continues" but that is certainly a stretch of the truth. This is not a sequal to Mrs. Mike, but another story entirely. I wanted to find out what happened to Kathy and Sgt. Mike, after the original story ends. Instead, the story switches over to the Flannigan's adopted daughter, and we get the briefest hint of Mrs. Mike's life from the time the first book ended, until this story begins in 1941. Mrs. Mike barely appears, she is the most minor of characters. Sgt. Mike's death is told in a page and a half, and as a flashback.
The story itself, about the daughter, is really bad. I wonder--is this supposed to be a true story as well, or did the Freedman's just make this up? If it's not true, then they have the poorest of imaginations. The story is flat, dull, and the ending about the most ridiculous I've read in a long time.
But even if this is the "true" story of Kathy Forquet, then the Freedman's told it in about the most lifeless form possible. The historical backdrop reads like a textbook, you get no feel for the period at all. The characters are flat, emotionless, the diagloge stilted and silly. It is hard to believe that this is the same couple who wrote the original Mrs. Mike.
I believe they have a third "Mrs. Mike" story coming out. I tend to guess it will be about the third Kathy, the granddaughter.
I would really love them to write a real sequel about Mrs. Mike, or at least, if they feel they must do this family sage, to at least tell us what became of Mrs. Mike. Did she ever return to Boston? What happened to her family? When and where did she die? Even in this book, we never really know how she continued to support herself after her husband died. I would assume she had some sort of pension, but all we know is that he died, and then the story jerks back to the present, and we hear no more of her.
Rating: 4
Summary: A different journey, but a rewarding one.
Comment: If you are looking for another book "just like MRS. MIKE," I'm afraid that THE SEARCH FOR JOYFUL will disappoint you. It's about a different young woman's journey out of girlhood, set in an entirely different era even though it begins just one generation after the classic tale of a Canadian Mountie's bride. While Katherine Mary Flannigan is among its characters, this is her adopted daughter's story. I'm glad I was able to put aside my preconceptions and let Kathy Forquet take me along on her own unique journey, because I found it a very rewarding trip.
This Kathy, as readers of MRS. MIKE will remember, came into the lives of Mike and Kathy Flannigan after their one-time household helper - the Cree girl Oh-Be-Joyful, who ran away to marry a half-breed trapper named Jonathan Forquet - died and left a baby daughter behind. Jonathan brought the child to the woman his young wife had called her "more than sister," and the Flannigans added the little girl to their adopted twins. Who, with their French ancestry, fit in among the northern Alberta village's white youngsters; while small copper-skinned Kathy, a First Nation child growing up in a white family, fit in nowhere except at home. "Kathy is to be included," Mrs. Mike consistently told Connie and Georges. But as her story opens, Kathy Forquet is striking out on her own for the first time - to answer her country's World War II call for young women to study nursing - and merely being "included" is no longer enough.
In the cosmopolitan city of Montreal, she find a profession to excel at and to love. She also finds prejudice among her fellow nursing students, and even - eventually - in the family of the young man she marries. But there is another young man, a fellow "Indian" also serving in the Canadian Army; and there are friends like Kathy's roommate Mandy, her old schoolmate Elk Girl, and "Sister Egg."
Through study and hard work, through coming under enemy fire in a front-line medical unit, through loving and losing and learning to love again, young Kathy journeys just as far in this book as her adoptive mother did in MRS. MIKE. It is written with more frankness because it was, after all, published 50 years later. If you're planning to hand it to your child, be warned about that! But I personally thought it well done, and well worth reading.
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Title: Mrs. Mike by Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman ISBN: 0425103285 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Mrs. Mike, the Story of Katherine Mary Flannigan, by Benedict. Freedman ISBN: 0698102606 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 1947 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Tisha : The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness by Robert Specht ISBN: 0553265962 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 July, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska : The Story of Hannah Breece by Hannah Breece ISBN: 0679776338 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Two Old Women by Velma Wallis ISBN: 0060975849 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 13 July, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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