The Year of Pleasures (Paperback)

from stephanie_M

What a beautifully written story! **NOT to be read right after losing a spouse, or loved one! I love everything about this book. Berg has the power to make you feel everything Betta was feeling, and it was so beautiful and delicately painful, I had to drop my book at one point, and go hug my husb...

from susanbeamon

This is a soft book touching on the often painful subject of surviving widowhood. It covered the confusing state of affairs when a life is changed by the death of another, important part of that life. I'm not sure those would have been my choices, but they work in the story of our newly minted wi...

from Brandie

Sweet book. A bit hard for me to relate to as not having that life experience, but yet, not too difficult that I couldn't kind of get it ... if that makes sense. Anyway, I enjoy it. This is the second Berg novel I have read and I have a feeling I will be reading others as well!

from PaperbackPirate

I've been putting off reading this book because it's about a woman whose husband has died and I have been trying not to read books with dead husbands. This book wasn't overly sad though. The widow gets in her car and drives until she gets to a town she feels she should live in. The citizens and h...

from FerneMysteryReader

This novel is about a time in a happily married woman's life that one hopes will never happen - that the life of her dearly beloved husband and soul-mate will end before her own. The main character, Bette Nolan, has had to live knowing her husband was dying. Now is a time for her to grieve but al...