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Summary: GREAT STORY- FAST READ
Review: I breezed through this book in no time - I was anxiously awaiting the arrival of this book in June and was pleasantly surprised to see it make an early arrival in May. The characters in this book are very likable - right down to the drug dealer who befriends Myra and is there for her in her most definite time of need. The story follows the similar love triangle you may read about with the teenage or mid-20's age group - But these characters are middle age - all in their early 50's. You will find yourself talking to the characters out loud trying desperately to convince them that their thoughts are incorrect and that yes, indeed, they are lovable. I read this book so quickly - I found myself disappointed in the end - I didn't want to close the back cover - I may just need to read it again to satisfy my hunger!!!!
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Summary: A beautiful and poignant love story
Review: Even as a child Myra Lipinsky had no friends and failed to connect with anyone. She sold the tickets to the prom, but no male asked her to go with him. As an adult, she had become a visiting nurse. Her occupation is her only satisfaction as she is content with her solitary status especially since her dog Frank provides her with companionship.At fifty-one, her high school secret crush Chip Reardon returns into her life when he is dying from an inoperable brain tumor. Chip refuses to accept chemo or radiation that will grant him a few more months to live, but at a dramatically reduced style of life. Chip moves into Myra's home where he teaches her to live and she teaches him to love. Elizabeth Berg has written a beautiful and poignant love story centering on a person accepting his fate and living what time he has left in life to the fullest. Chip's gift to Myra is helping her to open up to her feelings even as she provides him with the nurturing and the support he needs at the end. NEVER CHANGE is a five-tissue box novel, for the tears that flow not out of sorrow, but out of living. Elizabeth berg has written one of the most dramatic and beautiful books of her career, one that celebrates life to the fullest despite the death sentence hanging over the hero's head. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: A quick but poignant read
Review: This new book by Elizabeth Berg is written in her easy style. It kept me up late into the night this past Saturday (I started it at around 10:00 PM - finished by 12:30 AM). It moves quickly, and is both funny and sad at times. Myra is an unmarried woman in her early fifties who has established a life working as a nurse. She discovers herself (perhaps for the first time in her life) when she renews a relationship with a former high school friend, Chip, who is now her patient dying of cancer. Facing his own mortality, Chip shows Myra her worth as both a friend and as a woman. The story is touching - and it has popped into my mind several times since I finished it. Although not quite a literary masterpiece, it is a thought provoking read.
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Summary: A Glimpse in a Mirror......
Review: "Never Change" is a beautifully written story about love and the mirror it holds up to us. Myra Lipinsky is a woman who cares deeply and reaches out to many. As a visiting nurse she introduces the reader to a cast of wonderful characters, interesting, challenging, and unforgettable. But it is when an old high school crush becomes her patient that she comes face to face with what life and love really have to offer. And even more important, she discovers what she herself has always had to offer. This book is a gift that will stay with you.
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Summary: Delightfully real
Review: I just finished reading "Never Change" and thoroughly enjoyed this. I've read other Elizabeth Berg books that are just as enjoyable. In this book, the main character, Myra Lipinski, is an unmarried 51 year old who's life is about helping others. She has no idea how amazing she is and how important her life is until an old high school flame returns to her life in the form of Chip Reardon. This is a book I didn't want to finish because it's so beautifully written. Elizabeth Berg knows how to put the words together. To the very last page there is poetry and beauty in this book. I highly recommend this book. Peace
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Summary: Amazon recommended Elizabeth Berg . . . but . . .
Review: I didn't believe that I could readily accept a 50+ heroine. I like to identify, even in a remote way, with the heroines in the novels I read, but how could I identify with Elizabeth Berg's heroines?
So, I never purchased any of Amazon's Berg recommendations.
Recently I was on vacation and the rental where I stayed had Never Change on its shelf. I shrugged my shoulders and began to read. Immediately I was captured by Berg's writing. Her writing is exquisite; her prose is rhythmic and layered with detail. She interlaces seemingly insignificant details among important until the reader acknowledges that the insignificant is as important as the "important."
I was captured by the love story of Myra and Chip. Myra is not your average romantic heroine. For years, she has steadfastly avoided romance and friendships believing, however misplaced, that her unattractiveness was of more importance than anything inside that she might have to offer. Tears swelled in my eyes as I read the passage in which Chip proves to Myra how her patients regard her, despite her stubborn feelings of inadequacy. And, I clung to the book, turned page after page, wondering what Myra's ultimate decision would be regarding her future.
If you're a reader seeking good literature, who feels that many writers are throwing plot-driven drivel at you, take in Never Change. I promise you won't be disappointed. I know I wasn't.
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Summary: sappy and not credible
Review: I really hate stories that hook the part of me that cries over sentimental muck. Which is exactly what this novel did.
There are little descriptive gems throughout Berg's writing (an extra star for that) but the characters in this story were mostly cliches--one-dimensional and an insult to intelligent readers.
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Summary: A TOUCHING STORY
Review: Women will weep; women will love it. Elizabeth Berg's novel centers around a middle aged woman with an "unfortunate" face. She's unattractive in contemporary America where beauty is the ne plus ultra. She is also lonely. Once again Ms. Berg adroitly offers a less than sanguine protagonist who's getting along by getting along. Myra Lipsinsky is 51, unmarried, and convinced she never will be. She has devoted herself to her career as a visiting nurse, and to the care and well being of her dog, Frank. Myra describes her youthful self as "the one everybody liked but no one wanted to be with." Things haven't changed much over the years - that is until Chip Reardon, the love of Myra's life in high school, returns to town. But Chip has come back home for a tragic reason - he is dying, and Myra becomes his nurse. Of course, his death is inevitable but there are lessons to be learned here and Myra learns them well. Skillful author that she is Ms. Berg paints their relationship with insight and depth while reminding readers that in endings there are often beginnings. - Gail Cooke
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Summary: So many levels...
Review: I love Berg, because she can take a bore like Myra Lipinsky and make her interesting. She can take a homely, unpopular, loner and create a world where she can become beautiful. Myra is a 51 year old nurse who lives with her dog. She seems satisfyed to stay that way until one of her "home visits" happens to be the gorgeous, popular, sensational football player of her old high school, Chip, who by the way, never noticed that she existed, (since she was dim and unpopular)
Until now.... This book is about two people who would have never met under normal circumstances. A loney,solitary woman. A man with a deadly brain tumor. But Berg allows love to enter in, hope, dreams. And we all adore when the ugly duckling is beautiful in the eyes of the quarterback! Myra needs Chip as much as he needs her. And even if time is limited, they take the hours they are given.
Only if we could all live like that!
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