Hannah G

This book was a lark! Witty and often unexpected...I stayed up til 1:30 to finish it! Didn't manage to put it down once.

I was excited to see that Project Gutenburg had recently released a Laura Richards book I hadn't heard of before.

I didn't know she ever wrote a tragedy.

(Sad face.)

I had mixed feelings about this book. I absolutely loved the characters and the plot and all the things they had to overcome on their way into Indian Territory. It was great to read the historical parts, about the land rush and what motivated people to take part.

However, this is yet another book where the publisher didn't care enough to spend the money on a good editor. There are sentences that don't make sense, wrong spellings of right words...in general, simply a sloppy finish from the publisher. As a grammar freak, this gets on my last nerve and is always going to deduct stars from my rating.

So, overall, 3.75. I'd definitely recommend it as a pleasant and entertaining read, but probably won't spend money to buy my own copy.

This is so far my favorite of Alice Hegan Rice's books. It's a gentle, country love-story, concerning a boy becoming a man and winning the girl he loves. Very sweet and pleasant little story.

Kinda a three star. Read this long ago and loved the adventure, but there were a couple things that knocked off stars in my book.

–The hero has a child with his mistress out of wedlock, and she has so little value of herself that she refuses to marry him because she isn't good enough. Then she thinks she loses a child because she sinned by having her affair with him. The making of the child is told in language just short of graphic, so not suitable for younger readers.

–Big issue: it's actually stated that a woman needs to be punished by her husband to keep her in line; the hero leaves marks of a belt on his wife's rear and his mother approves.

Otherwise, grand adventure and a memorable plot.

Pleasant little quick read. It is unpredictable and unusual in many ways, excellent if you've read too many predictable plots recently! The characters are well written and come to life quickly. Manvers, the Englishman travelling in 1861 Spain, finds himself mixed up in the personal wars and romances of the local people. It is interesting and enjoyable.
This is my first sample of Hewlett's writing and I will definitely consider buying more of his books in the future. Mine is the illustrated version of 1908, which is apparently the one used for the original on this listing.

Very interesting and unusual story. Are there two girls who look alike or is there only one who is exceptionally crafty? You will go back and forth until the end!

I was a little disappointed because it was silly in places, and usually books by this couple get added to my favorites shelf. But it was still a fun story.

A story that almost made me cry...very sweet, very sad in places, and very Godly. It is one of those books that made me feel edified and encouraged.

This was a fun story to kick back and read. The Lady Anne's blunders could be aggravating, as she made so many attempts to throw away her happiness, in her inexperience; often it looks as though the story is fast becoming a tragedy. Can she and her husband reach an understanding before it is too late?

This is almost business fiction! It gives many details of the building and running of railroads in the early 1900s. It's a good book, not by any means a “fluff” read, but very enjoyable and informative.

I read this book in a little over and hour. The edition is beautiful and the stories are delightful.

I really enjoyed this story. The last three chapters could have been better; it slipped from a story more focused on one guy and gal into a record by a new character of a boat's log, and it distanced me from the ending. But the last few pages were just as good as the beginning and middle, and I still count it four stars.

I enjoyed this book so much! At first I wondered where it was going, as the main character planned a burglary in his desperation; but then came his desperate resolve to try one more time to conquer his drunkenness. It's a classic tale of man against himself, showing some of the valuable lessons he learns along the way.

Very interesting story about the consequences, good and evil, to the way our lives are lived. Satisfying ending.

This began as a pleasant tale of a German professor of the ripe age of sixty going to Ukraine to study the flora and fauna on a holiday, despite his friends' objections and better advice. He finds the Ukrainians to be quite friendly and is setting about his investigations into the local entomology when, in the second chapter...he finds a murder!
What follows is a very interesting murder mystery narrated by the professor. A very good story!
I have the Lippincott first edition of 1907, complete with a beautiful pictorial cover and three color illustrations.

This is really an excellent story. There's a bit of mystery woven in, too. I have the 1887 A. L. Burt edition. It was one of my Christmas books and another winner from one of my favorite authors. As always, Marlitt weaves in a great deal of lush description and outdoors details. Definitely worth the $6 I paid for it!

An enjoyable story about a man convicted wrongfully of murder and how he learned to do the right thing with the help of a good woman.

4.5 stars
I really enjoyed this book about domestic life. It's a very unusual plot style, as far as the fiction goes, but very sweet too.

This was a cute little story about a young orphan girl. In places it was not very well written, but it had a good ending and young Mary learned a good lesson in life.

This is an endearing tale of Scotland in 1810. Rob McFarland is a young lad who lives as a travelling musician and has no home of his own. He loves to watch young Annie and Malcolm from afar, at their play at their fine home, and dream a little. One day he is brave enough to venture out to see if he can play some music for them, and strange circumstances bring him just as the old laird, their grandfather, is dying; they have no one else to look after them. Before he knows it, the laird has called for papers and appointed him, homeless Rob, to be the children's guardian! What follows is so sweet and so interesting that even adults will love this tale...

A light read, though with plenty of danger and twists and turns. John Merriam has to impersonate his distant cousin, Senator George Norman, while the Senator is off in pursuits of dissipation. Politics are at stake, and Merriam is the only chance the Reform party has to succeed, once their precious Boy Senator is laying down on the job.
It just so happens that George Norman's wife is the sweet girl Merriam once loved, and who he hasn't seen since she went away to be married. And he's willing enough to put his neck on the line if it can save pretty Mrs. Norman's name from disgrace. But no one can remotely guess what is actually going to happen in the next few days...

This is a short tale, and my copy had an additional short story in the back called “A Christmas Eve Suit”. It was a very good quick read by one of my favorite authors.

I read this forever ago...but it was really good. I've always loved Stonewall Jackson anyway, but I love hearing from great men of God from their own letters.

Wonderful book! Definitely worth $5. It is long and has some Scots dialect, but is a solid, wholesome, wonderful story. Yes...I said wonderful twice in one line! Giving much detail about the storyline here would ruin the slow development to the surprising and satisfying ending. There's even a villain, and a well meaning man who must fight his own demons, and a sweet persecuted lady, and...but you ought to just read the book and meet them all yourself!
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