SUBGENRE: chick lit -- seriously, I was originally going to list it there; also frontier/Canadian Title: Mrs. Mike Author: Benedict and Nancy Freedman Length: Mine's 250 pages, and they're cramming a lot of words onto each one. Summary: Katherine Mary, a socialite from Boston, falls in love with Mike, a Canadian Mountie who lives in the middle of nowhere while she's visiting relatives. She leaves behind her old life for frontier living with all its hardships and freedoms (most of which you've seen before... but perhaps not all of them). Books it's similar to: If you ever wanted Laura Ingalls Wilder to give you much more about her personal life (the highs... and the lows) and to be much friendlier with the Indians, then this is the book for you. Why I'd rec it: Full disclosure about the axe I'm grinding in the rec below. But I love this book anyway. It's very vivid--vivid in its dialogue, scenes, descriptions, characters, you name it. I should warn you going in that Katherine Mary's characterization, next to all the big hearty men around her, is going to annoy some people. But I find it hard not to enjoy her for who she is. She's openly imperfect and wholly convincing. I've heard this is autobiographical, in which case I would call it "fearlessly honest."
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Date: 2011-06-19 05:12 pm (UTC)Title: Mrs. Mike
Author: Benedict and Nancy Freedman
Length: Mine's 250 pages, and they're cramming a lot of words onto each one.
Summary: Katherine Mary, a socialite from Boston, falls in love with Mike, a Canadian Mountie who lives in the middle of nowhere while she's visiting relatives. She leaves behind her old life for frontier living with all its hardships and freedoms (most of which you've seen before... but perhaps not all of them).
Books it's similar to: If you ever wanted Laura Ingalls Wilder to give you much more about her personal life (the highs... and the lows) and to be much friendlier with the Indians, then this is the book for you.
Why I'd rec it: Full disclosure about the axe I'm grinding in the rec below. But I love this book anyway. It's very vivid--vivid in its dialogue, scenes, descriptions, characters, you name it. I should warn you going in that Katherine Mary's characterization, next to all the big hearty men around her, is going to annoy some people. But I find it hard not to enjoy her for who she is. She's openly imperfect and wholly convincing. I've heard this is autobiographical, in which case I would call it "fearlessly honest."