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Summary: Pure reading magic!
Review: There have been several times while reading a book that I identified with a character but none quite so much as Nan from Elizabeth Berg's insightful novel The Pull of the the Moon. As I read this book I couldn't help but marvel at how well the author knew me, my thoughts and feelings eventhough we've never even met. And I imagine that I'm not alone what I say that there were many other readers who felt the same way I did.Nan is turning 50 and her life hasn't turned out quite the way she expected. Now her only child, a daughter, is about to leave for college and she wonders where her life is headed. Unexpectedly Nan decides to take a trip which turns out to be a journey of discovery and self-renewal. Leaving a note for her husband and daughter, some clothes and a leather bound journal to record her thoughts, Nan takes to the road in her car not completely sure where shes headed to. And what she finds out about herself will have readers thinking, "I feel this way, " or "This is me," or "What will my life be like in the future." As for last lines, this book provides some of the most memorable ones I can remember in some time. But I won't give the lines away here, instead read the book and let me know if you agree.
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Summary: Too much free time
Review: My book club discussed this book. The women under 40 (including me) hated it, found the main character vain, over-indulged and useless. The women over 40 all liked the book and understood the main character. The women over 50 said it was the story of their own lives. Maybe it's a generational thing? I couldn't stand the main character. I couldn't understand why she allowed herself to get into the rut she was in, why she didn't do something sooner and why she didn't do something constructive instead of taking a roadtrip. I wonder how everyone would respond if this story was about a man who decided one day that he was bored with his life and his wife and wanted to find some adventure. He then proceeds to write letters to his wife from the road in which he details his sexual exploits with women he meets on the road. ...
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Summary: A ten.
Review: A grown woman "runs away from home" and finds herself. It's poetic, it's beautiful and it's required reading for anybody with baggage.
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Summary: Touching, compelling, fine
Review: It was like a long warm bath. One of Berg's gems
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Summary: a window into my soul
Review: What insight! I felt as if some-one had been reading my most private thoughts. I wanted to rush right out and buy copies for each of my daughters. Not word for word, but in essents, reflecks a woman's feeling so right! The last time I read a book, that so touched my most private place, was when I read "Mother is dead, and living in Chicago". Thank you for letting us know we're not alone!
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Summary: Guide on how to fix problems without dumping partner.
Review: A common sense approach to getting away from marital problems, sifting through what is wrong with one's life, having the courage to change things to make it right for yourself, and at the same time not trashing your partner, still loving him/her...even moreso once you start feeling better about yourself and asking firmly for what you need to be more content. Not happy, perhaps. But content. Time away is smart.
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Summary: pretentious and unoriginal
Review: This book was very disappointing. I expected a bit more revelations than accepting gray in my hair or ignoring the lines in my face. That scene in the beauty shop was a sham, I felt I was watching a bad sit-com. And how about the writer proclaiming in one section of the book that she had too much money and the next sections she's talking about building a million dollar home on the beach? Talk about contradictions! I could see where the author thought she could bamboozle the public, but what about the editor? I suppose the book is calculated to appeal to wealthy baby boomer women over 50. It didn't work with me -- maybe because I'm too busy working and earning a living! I'm surprized so many women liked it, perhaps the others threw it down in disgust and never bothered to finish it. Definitely a book that's a put-on!
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Summary: It was like my life.....
Review: I read this book as I turned 50...an age that I feared. I wondered who I was...where I was in life...even though my life was good. This book made me see things in a different light...and has made me dream of taking that same road trip. One of my favorites...I reccommend it to all my friends.
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Summary: I loved this book.
Review: I so enjoyed this book, I went out and bought 5 more to give as gifts to 5 of my closest 50ish friends. Berg wrote about feeling universally felt by women turning 50. I want to read it again.
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Summary: Amazing, witty and deeply serious
Review: How long has it been since a writer wrote in such perfect cadences, poetic, funny, deeply serious? I'm on a Berg-mania! I KNOW I will read this book out loud to my husband, as we travel, since it needs talking about. It opens such amazing venues into the soul, the everyday life, and the moment! I would love to meet the author.
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