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Summary: A great rainly day book
Review: This book captures the heart of most women since all of us can relate to its unfolding of a strong and interactive relationship between two wonderfully developed characters by Berg. This book speaks to the wide range of emotions in a relationship where death is pending and one's support is critical.
It is easy to be seduced by Berg's quickness and wit,and lifelike portrayal of the characters which jump out from page to page. As the pages began to dwindle, I found myself reading slower to maximize the time spent with the two main characters.
This book speaks to what all of us need in life and the commitment it takes to have and be a best friend ! A truly delightful journey.
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Summary: Women: READ THIS BOOK
Review: This one's for the little girl inside you that remembers that girlhood friend to whom you swore your allegiance. Elizabeth Berg paints a sharp and focused picture of the intricacies and importance of friendship between grown women. Amazingly, through the story of friends who deal with a another friend who is dying of cancer, Berg paints life vividly. For women out there, you'll want to go out and buy a copy to give to all your girlfriends. Sentences will jar and disturb you with such truth that you'll rush to grab a pen to underline them. From our own idiosyncracies and fears of other women to the birth, and the pain, that occurs when you give of yourself, this novel delivers a message that only you and your closest friends will understand.
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Summary: One of the best harmonies of love and loss ever written
Review: This beautiful story of bestfriendship in the toughest of times is heartwarming and inspirational. The socially shy Ann, in her busy life, hardly realizes how much she's needing someone to pour her heart out to. A chance meeting with the flamboyant Ruth blossoms into a fiercely strong best-of-bestfriendship. They cry together at theaters, help each other through rocky marriges, share devil's food cake for breakfast, sleep out under the stars together in a friendship that seems will never end. A few years into their friendship, they are faced with a crisis that won't go away. The strength of friendship in the worst of times is unbelieveable. Ann and Ruth help each other climb over mountains some of us would find unreachable. This story reminded me of the incredibaly powerful force of friendship and the strenth of human spirit in very challenging times.
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Summary: It's even better on tape!
Review: If you thought the experience of reading Elizabeth Berg's Talk Before Sleep was incredible, you must know that the audiotape version is even more wonderful. You feel like you're in on an intensely intimate conversation with your very best girlfriend. Blythe Danner's performance of the novel does great justice to Elizabeth Berg's lively and poignant characters. I hated for the tape to end
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Summary: A book about the conversations between two best friends.
Review: This book is about two best friends in their middle age, married and with children of their own. But unfortunately, one has breast cancer. It talks about how the two best friends deal with the problem and what they talk about when one has no forever. Sharing their laughter, their joy and their misery. I think it's a really good book to read and I
would recommend it to anybody. It almost made me cry at the end. I really enjoy reading this book and I think anybody would enjoy it too.
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Summary: A tribute to the power of women's relationships
Review: This book made me realize how important friendships are to women. It also made me realize that many of my generation, myself included, are missing out on forming these deep friendships. Our mothers stayed home and developed strong bonds with each other over hours of coffee in the kitchen and iced tea in the yard. Most of us, however, spend our days juggling work and family, and our friendships with other women never get a chance to develop the same level of intimacy. "Talk before Sleep" brought home the fact that we should not neglect our friendships
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Summary: Heart moving story about the staying power of friendship!
Review: The movie, "Beaches," would take a back seat to this funny and sob-making story. Two friends and one is dying. Time is running out. The female characters and dialogue are exceptional. Women will relate to sitting on the bed, unzipping their jeans and unhitching their bras, and talking late into the night. What would "best friends" say in the final weeks? Everything! This is a book I will forever cherish and highly recommend. It has "staying" power because it is a tribute to the staying power and endurance of friendship.
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Summary: A beautifully written book about the friendships of women.
Review: This book is wonderful. I read it in all one sitting; I could not put it down. It depicts the beauty and resilience of a woman and her close friends as she struggles through breast cancer. You will both laugh and cry as you read this warm, intelligent book
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Summary: A must read for every woman alive!
Review: Wonderful clear language and a complete understanding
of what it is like to lose someone you love, made this book
a true pleasure to read. Anyone feeling sorry for oneself,
will see that life as an amazing blessing to be grasped and
lived to it's fullest. You will laugh and cry simultaneously!!
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Summary: A great novel, but so sad.
Review: Talk Before Sleep" is the story of Ann and Ruth and their friendship, told from the point-of-view of Ann. We learn right from the start of the story that Ruth has been diagnosed with breast cancer, that there is nothing else that can be done for her, and that she is dying. The book shows the development of the womens' friendship from the time they meet, and more than anything else, I think the author tries to show the strong bonds of love and friendship that exist between the women and how special and unique a "best friendship" can be. Much of the time, it almost feels as if the novel is nonfiction, and Berg admits in an author's note that she lost a friend to breast cancer and wanted to write about that experience.The novel is short, around 200 pages, and I finished reading it in only a few hours. I have to admit that I found the story very difficult to read--not because it was badly written, but because it was so tragic and sad. It did make me a cry (a lot), but the tears didn't feel cathartic. I hate to sound so dramatic, but I felt depressed and grief-stricken by the time I reached the end.
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