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39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of my favorite Berg books,
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This review is from: Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel (Hardcover)
I am surprised to read some of the other reviews of this book, because I found this to be one of Berg's best. As a child of the 60's, most of what I know of WW2 is from a historical perspective. Berg made the second World War come to life for me, and put it in human perspective. It was sobering to realize that the worry about the soldiers in Iraq now is not so much different from how people worried about the soldiers back then. Will we never learn? I've read other novels of WW2, but found it refreshing how Berg allowed the character of Kitty to grow and develop questions about the patriotism of the day.
Coming from an Irish family, the accounts of daily life with the Heaney's struck a chord with me.
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Rushed and Unsatisfying Ending,
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This review is from: Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel (Hardcover)
After a book rich with details and and a story evolving slowly, the ending came in a rush with so many unanswered questions. With her usual style and skill, Elizabeth Berg draws well defined characters that you can almost picture in your mind like an old movie. With an ability to capture the essence of every day life unlike any other, she enables you to live along with the characters.
Perhaps as another reviewer suggested, the author will write a sequel to fill in the gaps from the end of the WW2 period to the conclusion of the book that will provide the detail that we all crave. A book written from the vantage point of each of the other sisters - Louise and Tish - or even the mother, Margaret (who was strong and interesting in the glimpse we got of her)- would be possible without being overly redundant. Much as I enjoyed the book, I was disappointed in the ending because it cheated us of the same level of detail that the rest of the book provided. It was like buying a candy bar, eating half and finding the second half was cardboard. Yup, we got a dramatic conclusion, but it landed with a thunk. More story, please.
60 of 68 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
bitter disappointment,
This review is from: Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel (Hardcover)
Oh, I hoped this would be good. I expected it to be good; at her best, Berg is such a great writer. And I have to say that I wonder whether this book would have been published if it had been submitted to an editor by an unknown.
I appreciate when authors do research for their books, but the trick is to use it wisely, to not overpower the reader by showing off all you know. The whole time I read I was thinking, Yes, we know you did your research. It was period-detail-drenched. Which would have been forgivable if I had fallen in love with the characters. I kept waiting to. Expecting to. And I never did. When Berg's at her best, you can see inside the souls of her characters. In DREAM WHEN YOU'RE FEELING BLUE, I felt like she gave a shallow portrayal that was only rich in period details. And it must be said; it had the most wholly unsatisfying and unbelievable ending I've come across in a long, long time.
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