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Summary: Mid life crisis at its best
Review: Nan is going through "The Change of Life" and being 33, I didn't have the schema for what that was like. So, I felt a little dumb in how Nan felt in that area. However, sometimes I have wanted to "pick up, leave for awhile, and get my thoughts straight" just like Nan did. So I really connected with the main character there. I liked this story because I could connect with it in a truly personal way. Both Elizabeth Berg and her character made me think about my life and how wonderful it is. When a book makes me reflect, it is a keeper. And the ending is happy, because it celebrates how strong and remarkable women really are.
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Summary: In search of oneself..
Review: Elizabeth Berg's THE PULL OF THE MOON is the story of Nan, and her search for herself. She's in her 50's and has decided to leave her husband (temporarily) and travel the country, looking for what, she does not know. She sends letters to her husband Martin throughout this entire trip, revealing to the reader what is going on in her head as she goes from town to town, doing things she enjoyed doing but felt her husband never understood. She finds joy in the little things, taking time to talk to people along the way. A lot of her letters are angry, some are sad. She loves her husband, but as many women feel as they approach middle age, she feels burnt out and neglected. She's been taken for granted, and she wants to change it all. I think a lot of women will be able to relate to Nan and her journey to find herself. It's an easy read; took me only a few days to finish. I'm not 50 yet, but I could understand her frustrations. Elizabeth Berg is the master of "chick books" I think, and I always come away from one of her books with a "I can relate!" feeling. If you are an Elizabath Berg fan, this is another great read!
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Summary: Maybe directed to an older woman with grown kids?!
Review: I have been really torn about this book. On one hand I found it could almost have been me. On the other hand, I found it to be very depressing and not about me at all. As Nan turns fifty she begins a road trip and a self discovery trip. Along the way she writes letters to husband about what she learns about herself. The first page begins the descent into depressing in my opinion. In her letter to her husband she begins by telling him why she keeps a pretty rock by her bed; not because she likes the color (although she does) but because she can envision a world outside her window. She can hold her rock and know there are other rocks out there in other places. I guess what I find just sad about this book is that Nan feels this urge to relearn who she is by herself while still keeping her husband informed of this experience. I would rather take that path with my husband. I found it sad that she didn't share some of the things she is telling him in her letters with him many years earlier. A previous reviewer used the word victim and I would tend to agree with this comment. However, if Nan turned fifty and she had been talking with her husband all along, there wouldn't be a book. And that I think, is the moral of the story to some extent. I can imagine her husband reading these letters and going along his lonely life and thinking 'how did I miss that?' and 'why didn't she tell me?' and 'where did I go wrong that she could share that with me?' Very sad. This could almost be me to some degree. I think it could be every woman to some degree. We all get busy doing the dishes, raising the kids and living day to day that we forget the bigger issues and we forget the living life daily and we forget to have the important conversations. This would be a good book for a book club to read and discuss I think. I also think someone who is older than me, with older kids than me might find this a more worthwhile book. However, I don't know that I'd suggest any of my friends read it. The main reason I rated it higher than a one star (which was my first inclination) was that it really does have some good morals and life lessons woven in this book.
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Summary: Modern-day Housewife adventure makes good
Review: A woman in the midst of mid-life crisis decides to up and leave her husband of many years and find out what's on the other side of the white picket fence. During the course of her journey she sends letters back to her husband and keeps a journal of her more private thoughts and experiences, and this is the meat of the tale. Unveiled are women's issues and fears at the starkest and most accesible; Berg writes like an old friend talks, and the book flies from one adventure to the next, leaving behind just enough sugar to keep you following her ehroine's trail. Some of it seems a little contrived, but who cares? It's a modern day housewife adventure that could happen to any woman at anytime (it's charm), complete with stops in backwater cafes, bed-and-brekafast cribs and trailer parks. A delight, and just the right length.
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Summary: This book was good, but it didn't hold me interest
Review: I have read a few of Elizabeth Berg's books. I loved the others that I read, this one didn't seem to
hold my attention as best as the others. It was good, and I do recommend it. But not as much as I recommend her others. EMW
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Summary: Laugh, cry, this story puts the mirror in front of you
Review: Have you ever had the fleeting notion that you are unique? That there couldn't be another woman with your experience, your emotions, your response to life? Elizabeth Berg lets us in on the life of a recently-turned half-century woman in this warm-hearted, poignant diary, and suddenly we realize what we all share. It's as if finally, someone understands the pining and the losses, and lets us see the road ahead with awe and wonder. A beautiful expression of our coming of age and the journey that precedes the deep, peaceful embrace of the second half of our lives. I loved it!
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Summary: Berg takes us on a journey
Review: Elizabeth Berg takes the readers on a journey that all women dream about, getting away from it all. Not permanetly but just for a small time. Plus wouldn't we all love to have the money to just run away for a while?? LOL You can't go wrong with any Elizabeth Berg book. She is wonderful.
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Summary: tiresome narrator
Review: This novel is not without merits in its insight into the thoughts of a woman as she confronts her aging, her past and her future. However, Berg alternates between entries into a journal the narrator begins keeping and letters the narrator is writing to her husband and, in so doing, overwhelms the reader with the narrator's internal monologue. The narrator became tiresome, neurotic and whining as the book and her trip wound on.
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Summary: This book is about being a woman and being human.
Review: I loved this book. It was very sensitive, perceptive, almost poetic and all about life. This woman sees things that we take for granted every day and is grateful for these little (and not so little) things. Highly recomended and very readable. I will now go on to some of her other books and hope they come as close as this one to being memorable.
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Summary: A book for Women with Kids
Review: This book, was not aimed at me, nor could I relate to the woman in the lead role. In my opinion, it was an absolutely unbelieveable tale, with no new ideas. Far too many people poured our their hearts to her after 5 mins of casual conversation. She was such a victim it got on my nerves - it was Martin's fault, it was society's fault, her daughter's fault - anyone but hers. Everyone makes their own decisions.
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