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Mail Order Millie (Homespun Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Katie Crabapple (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 6,663 ratings
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George has a hard time dealing with his farm and his four children after the death of his wife. When the ladies at his church raise money for a mail order bride for him, he doesn’t argue with them. He needs a caretaker for his family. Millie has a short time to find her own way in the world before she is kicked out of the orphanage where she was raised. George’s letter about his requirements for a bride fit in all ways but one. Will her lie keep them apart even after they’re married?
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    Homespun
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    September 23, 2013
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This is the first book in the Homespun series.  The second book is Sleigh Ride.  The third, Teaching Patience, is now available.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007SAKW9E
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Digital Services, Inc. (September 23, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 23, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 219 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 66 pages
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    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 6,663 ratings

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Katie Crabapple

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Katie Crabapple is a Christian homeschooling mom who loves to write. She believes that love is the center of our walk with God and wants to share simple lighthearted stories about finding your soul-mate within God's family. She believes that God gave us a sense of humor for a reason, so she tries to put a little bit of humor in her stories. She can't imagine a world without laughter.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet and beautiful
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2014
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I absolutely loved this book. It's so refreshing to just read something simple and down to earth. I'm tired of picking up books in the historical section where the main heroines have such a feminist attitude and the main characters flaunt 21st century viewpoints and the women always complaining about marriage being "slavery" and rewriting history to where all the heroes aren't dominant but instead weak and want their wives being "equal partners" and giving into their demands and having to change their "mysognistic" viewpoints and come to term with their "issues" before they can fall in love. Give me a break already. For those who complain about it having a "subservient" message the Bible isn't whatever you want it to be. You can't just ignore what the Bible says or interpret it however you see fit. The Bible is patriarchal as was our culture for many many centuries and that is not a bad thing. Women have to submit to their husbands before husbands can make a safe investment and truly accept responsibility for their wives. Women's empowerment and women's abandonment by men go hand in hand. Somehow we think feminism, gay marriage, divorce and other socially approved lifestyles all fit right into the Bible- well they don't. All the female characters in this book were so good-hearted and were grateful and happy about their place in life. They enjoyed serving their husbands and families. Such a good book like this is rare indeed today!

Millie needed a home and George needed a wife for his children. He provided the home and support and she took care of the kids and house as her own. He never treated her bad in this book but they just have a few problems to work out if there is to be a happily ever after. I loved that the female character has no problems acknowledging that she needs to obey her husband and he acknowledges that he is to provide for them and care for them. There is NOTHING wrong with that and much thanks to the author for giving us traditional women a nice clean romance with real and true traditonal values.

This was a wonderful book and I will be looking for more from this author in the future, much thanks for not giving into the politically correct madness in society!
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fwitkop
4.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly good book.
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2013
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As I started reading this homespun romance I didn't expect to enjoy the read but, as an author, I often read for reasons other than plain enjoyment. I'd decided that I should become more well-rounded in the small town romance genre and this book looked like a good place to start.

But something happened as I read.I became increasingly annoyed with the author because I felt that this unusually detailed account of the daily life of a pioneer woman in early Minnesota might not be realistic in that the author was turning Millie into something no woman could be. Wonder Woman. I don't know anyone who can scrub down log walls and bake bread while doing the laundry by hand. And it bothered me a tad that the writing wasn't smooth or polished. It was as simplistic as if I was reading a pioneer woman's journal, except it was in third person.

Now let me make something clear. I did not live in those times (I'm not quite that old) but my mother did, having lived as a child in Hibbing Minnesota during the boom times. She learned to cook on a wood stove and started caring for her younger siblings when she was five. Though she later earned her Masters and was in Who's Who in American Education and was and is an extremely competent, hard-working and efficient person, I doubt she was physically capable of accomplishing all that Millie did in the book. I doubt anyone could have done all those things so quickly, efficiently and easily. They'd have passed out from sheer exhaustion.

I also wondered whether any devout Christian woman would have felt quite so subservient to her husband as Millie did. In fact I became a tad irritated with Millie and wanted to slap her upside the head until she stopped being so hard on herself for being every bit as irritated with her husband for being chauvinist as I was.

Then I realized something. I'd forgotten that I was reading for research. I was into the story. More, I was into the characters enough that I wanted to intervene and thump on someone's head ... any head, either the hero or the heroine ... until they stopped being so dense, even though I knew all along that everything would end happily.

Well! That says something!

I guess the book was better than I thought. In fact, now that I'm done with it, I look back and am very glad I read it and will remember it for a long time, and not only because it was an interesting and very detailed description of the daily life of a pioneer Minnesota woman.

Maybe I'm prejudiced. My mom was much like the oldest daughter in the story. My grandmother was very sick so she gave instructions that my mother, as a child, carried out so the housework got done and the kids were cared for. Okay, there were differences. My mom lived in town instead of a log cabin and my grandfather was the school superintendent instead of a farmer so things weren't as tough for my mom as they were for Millie. Still, there's a similarity and I think I'll shoot this book over to my mom to read because I think she'll enjoy it as much as I did.

Oh my goodness! I doubt I've ever given a book that wasn't extremely well written as good a review as I have this one. Or was the writing better than I realized and I just didn't see it? I'll always wonder.
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cindy selke
3.0 out of 5 stars Mail Order Millie
Reviewed in Canada on February 7, 2014
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The premise of the book sounded interesting but the author did not intrigue me with good dialogue or much plot development. Weak on descriptions of the scene and character development. Only one of the children had any personality! Mediocre.
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D.L.R
4.0 out of 5 stars Mail Order Millie
Reviewed in Australia on July 28, 2014
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What a breath of fresh air! It's nice to have a story that is such as this one. It's a good Christian romance. Recommend it for all.
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Dorothy Gardner
4.0 out of 5 stars Mail Order Millie
Reviewed in Canada on May 31, 2014
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I did enjoy this book. I chose it because I enjoy reading about the early days in the

I chose this book because I always enjoying reading about the
American West.

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Christina
4.0 out of 5 stars Lovely
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2014
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This was a truly lovely story. A gentle book ideal for a bed-time read. Katie Crabapple created the hard life of the times in a lovely story of family and hope. I will look out for more stories from this author.
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Terry
3.0 out of 5 stars This guy was hard to please - no romance her at all
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2013
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The story goes that Mille is an orphan in the1800's and so when she turned 18 she had to leave and make her own way in the big wide world. She responded to a letter to become a mail order bride to a man who had recently been widowed and left with four young children under 7 (I think). The request was for a woman aged a little older than Millie but she wanted security etc and so told a tiny white lie as they did in those days out of need. His request stated that the bride to be had to be a true Christian

When the husband to be collected the lovely bride from the train station he gave her a cold reception which continued through the wedding service.

He made Millie feel quite rejected on the journey to their home, very dissapointing because surely he was not behaving in a very Christan way at all.

Millie was to sleep in another room with the daughters, again rejecting her.

She cleaned up the very very unclean house and cooked and kept the four children tidy - clean etc making them all feel loved which she herself did not feel from her new husband.

At one point he discussed her dishonesty about her age but I feel he was also being untrue towards Millie because he clearly wasn't ready for the wife that he had requested.

As time went on Millie used the material that she had bought for herself (prior to meeting the new husband) to make the two daughters new dresses however as you might expect the husband was not very happy about that and yet again he accused the young girl of lying.

Throughout the book Millie worked very hard and at a young age gave full commitment to the family but only recieved brief 'well done' and no emotion from he husband.

Dissapointing but I suppose it happened. I was expecting but did not get any signs of romance.

Not recommended
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