Julie's review
Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
"Canned" is the perfect word. It is as if she took a high school U.S. History class, took good notes when learning about WWII, then crammed EVERY possible factoid regarding the home front into the book. So.... CANNED!
Don't get me started on the ending.
Totally agree re: the ending. Was like: "Seriously? Seriously." Didn't feel authentic to me AT ALL and, more than that, seemed totally ridiculous.
Julie's review
Dream When You're Feeling Blue: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg
Julie's review
rating:
bookshelves:
fiction
I've never been over the moon for any Elizabeth Berg book I've read, but sometimes they hit me at the right time and they're the perfect light read. This was not one of those books, and I really wanted it to be. It's set in Chicago, on the home front, during WWII. if nothing else, I expected to like the details that emerge in the background of these types of stories--the music, the dances, the clothes, etc. But those details seemed canned. The story revolves around the three sisters in the Irish Heaney family, each of whom writes to various soldiers who are fighting overseas. The sister the reader gets to know the most is Kitty. But Kitty's character wasn't believable to me, particularly her actions as the novel is wrapping up. I suppose the reader is meant to think that in acting so selflessly, Kitty has matured. But her acts simply didn't ring true to me and while Kitty is indeed quite selfish at the start of the book, I found her selfishness then as over the top as her self...more
"Canned" is the perfect word. It is as if she took a high school U.S. History class, took good notes when learning about WWII, then crammed EVERY possible factoid regarding the home front into the book. So.... CANNED!
Don't get me started on the ending.
Totally agree re: the ending. Was like: "Seriously? Seriously." Didn't feel authentic to me AT ALL and, more than that, seemed totally ridiculous.
