Dream When You're Feeling Blue, (Paperback)

from joririchardson

"Dream When You're Feeling Blue," set during World War II, is at its core, a story of family. The three Heaney sisters spend their days going to dances, helping the war effort, and writing to their soldier boyfriends, fiancees, and crushes. Kitty overcomes her vanity and decides to help as a mech...

from BookConcierge

Book on CD read by the author. 2.5 ** From the book jacket: Berg takes us to Chicago at the time of World War II in this story about three sisters, their lively Irish family, and the men they love. As the novel opens, Kitty and Louise Heaney say good-bye to their boyfriends Julian and Michael, wh...

from Nbowers

I was looking forward to another good book by Elizabeth Berg. I was so disappointed with the ending and felt so let down with the way this book ended. I don't usually feel that way when I am reading Berg's work. It felt like several chapters were skipped and the ending was just tossed in there.

from maiadeb

Nice read, stayed up w-a-y too late last night finishing. Good example of how historical fiction can give us a true glimpse of how people lived through a tragic time period.Tthe women in this book remind me of aunts I have who lived in such a way and who are the people they are now because of the...

from shannonkearns

i really enjoyed this book. a novel about family set in chicago in the midst of ww2. it was a moving ode to the lifestyle of the 1940's, the ways in which people came together on the homefront to support the men overseas, the joy of writing letters to sweethearts and the agony of waiting for them...