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    Michael O' Halloran
    Michael O' Halloran
    Michael O' Halloran
    Audiobook17 hours

    Michael O' Halloran

    Written by Gene Stratton-Porter

    Narrated by Rusty Nelson

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    Michael O’Halloran is the charming Gene Stratton-Porter novel of an orphaned newspaper seller who asks nothing of the world except to "be square". The book presents a vivid description of American life in 1914 and, though the characters suffer many hardships, the overall tone is so upbeat that it's easy to see why this book outsold "Pollyanna" in 1916. Stratton-Porter's skill as a naturalist make the country scenes especially vibrant. Her ear for dialog is unsurpassed showing the reader that, if life in America wasn't like this, it should have been. Readers of this book will be led to wonder if children and adults did speak this nicely to each other once upon a time, and if the world would be a better place if everyone could just "be square."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateJun 22, 2015
    ISBN9781614537052
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    Gene Stratton-Porter

    Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924) was an American author, photographer, and naturalist. Born in Indiana, she was raised in a family of eleven children. In 1874, she moved with her parents to Wabash, Indiana, where her mother would die in 1875. When she wasn’t studying literature, music, and art at school and with tutors, Stratton-Porter developed her interest in nature by spending much of her time outdoors. In 1885, after a year-long courtship, she became engaged to druggist Charles Dorwin Porter, with whom she would have a daughter. She soon grew tired of traditional family life, however, and dedicated herself to writing by 1895. At their cabin in Indiana, she conducted lengthy studies of the natural world, focusing on birds and ecology. She published her stories, essays, and photographs in Outing, Metropolitan, and Good Housekeeping before embarking on a career as a novelist. Freckles (1904) and A Girl of the Limberlost (1909) were both immediate bestsellers, entertaining countless readers with their stories of youth, romance, and survival. Much of her works, fiction and nonfiction, are set in Indiana’s Limberlost Swamp, a vital wetland connected to the Wabash River. As the twentieth century progressed, the swamp was drained and cultivated as farmland, making Stratton-Porter’s depictions a vital resource for remembering and celebrating the region. Over the past several decades, however, thousands of acres of the wetland have been restored, marking the return of countless species to the Limberlost, which for Stratton-Porter was always “a word with which to conjure; a spot wherein to revel.”

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    • 3/5
      Dicksonesque in its setting and characters, it is a bit too unlikely lucky and happy and all is wonderful even for that esteemed writer. Too much moralising and a few annoying soliloquies and an over stressed similarity between a certain song and birdsong.
    • 4/5
      This is really funny - Stratton-Porter is writing an Alger book. The mixture works pretty well, though the result is no masterpiece - still, it's a fun little book. Orphan street-boy Michael adopts orphan Peaches, and all around him things go wonderfully. Luck and coincidence leap to his aid over and over (and over and...) - he ends up with three different families opening their arms to him and his ward. Totally dysfunctional families become perfect and perfectly happy - not through his work directly, but a word in the right place and the right events going on elsewhere make everything perfect. Since it's a Stratton-Porter, there's paeans to the swamp and to the simple, happy life of the countryside as well as the Alger-style good boy getting his deserts. It's cute, I enjoyed it - I might (might!) even read it again. Or maybe not.
    • 5/5
      OH. MY. GOODNESS. This is one of the best books ever! My only complaint is that Porter's writing style is a little too wordy for me. Not that she uses a big words, but she just uses A LOT of words, with some unnecessary description. Other than that, I ADORED this book!

      Michael (aka "Micky") is just the sweetest, wisest, most honorable, and lovable boy you will find in the streets of NYC. I love his slang! ("Nix on the swell dames!") <3 His sense of responsibility and honor for one so young is inspiring, and his relationship with Lily (aka "Peaches") is just charming!

      Peaches is so sweet, and is most of the time very content, patient, and happy, even with a crippled back. She is so precocious, lovable, loyal and such a spit-fire, it is hard not to want to wrap her up in a big bear hug!

      The rest of the characters are also amazing! I love them all; Douglas, Leslie, "Daddy", the "Angel Lady", Mr. Milton, and on and on. The story is also stupendous, heartwarming, and inspiring. It is just too hard to sum it up! A wonderful read for just about anybody! I would recommend it for ages 11 , only because the writing is somewhat hard to follow, but it would make a great read-aloud. Not a drop of language, explicit content, or violence. Just pure goodness!
    • 2/5
      The story of an inner-city youth who has a never-say-die personality and the wisdom of a 90 year old who has observed people carefully all his life. Mickey finds a young and crippled orphan and chooses to save her from going to the "Orphing" home. Oh yes, it is full of precious words like that. As a side story, there is a wonderful young woman, Leslie, whose touch is golden.The morality preaching is killing what would otherwise have been a sweet story. It is amazing how people change their whole being and way of living, just because a "sweet young thing" gives them a heartfelt lecture. Rather than calling her an interfering, rude, self-righteous, ignoramus (she isn't much over 20) who thinks she knows it all, and to get lost, they have an epiphany and become perfect living citizens! Sorry. It just doesn't happen that way. People who have lived in such a way to mess up their lives as bad as some of these have do not drop all their bad ways overnight; and even if they do change, the consequences of their former actions play out in their lives for years.Also, talk about your deux ex machina! The whole story is one right after another. The perfect person is always at hand with the perfect help needed at just the right time, and usually has a lecture of right living to give as well.I've had to skim through the political lectures from Leslie about how if men would just be perfect, then all the women would love to be in their "cave with their man and their children." And she has the plan to solve all of the economical problems of the world too!I know this was a definite movement in the early part of our century. It was what was behind the Hull House movement, which was the beginning of social services in America. I've come across it in other stories as well, and some of the very early movies such as Shirley Temple starred in, so I'm learning while I choke and gag through the pablum. It isn't that I'm against all, or even most of the ideas in this book, it is the way they are shoved down your throat. That and the cloying dialect. Too much.
    • 4/5
      First read a copy of my mother's as a teenager. Fascinating look at slum life at the turn of the last century. Has a sort of "Horatio Alger" feel as sweet newsie Michael finds his way to a better life. Found this copy at a garage sale and couldn't believe my eyes!