With Hope (1998)

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Author

Dorothy Garlock

Genre

Memoir & Autobiography

Series

dolan brothers

Rating

4.09 of 5 Votes: 3

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ISBN

1568659202 (ISBN13: 9781568659206)

Language

English

Publisher

warner books

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Very interesting read. I liked the authentic voice in this book. I was drawn in to the depression era and felt this was what Oklahoma was really like at the time. I normally hate a book when an unhappy married man gets involved with a tender heart like Henry Ann. Yet here, it didn't seemed not so pathetic. Not because of his wife's mental illness and issues. It is in till death due us part in sickness and in health. Maybe it was the eloquent writing by the author. Maybe it was my own maturity. If i was struggling mentally to a suicidal point or beyond. I would like to believe i would hope for my husbands happiness and my children as well. Whatever, made the difference the story came alive. It was told in such a sincere and pure voice that you couldn't put it down from one hour to the next. For me it was beyond a normal romance. It held just enough complexity to just be life. As we are all ultimately in a divine romance.

Very enjoyable series. I usually don't read historical fiction before the 1900's, but the librarian suggested it. I was very glad to have given it a chance! I love the characters! Julie father has died and mother (never divorced from her father) moved out when she was young only to come back now and again for money. Come to hear that her mother was a loose woman who had 2 other children who she gave her family name too. Julie feels like she needs to take her younger sister in and she is a wild child. I love the whole "wrong side of the tracks" storyline.

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I have read other Dorothy Garlock novels and enjoyed them very much. After 100 pages, I had to give up on this one. It takes place in Oklahoma during the 1930's dust bowl. The main story line with Henry Ann fighting to keep her farm after her father dies is quite likeable and seemed to have great potential, but the side story line of Henry Ann's half brother and sister (especially the half sister) involve so much "Okie" talk about sex that it is very distracting from the storyline. I finally got to the point I couldn't stand any more of it and quit.
—Loraine