Never Change

A Great Read!

This book was a great read! The story is heart felt. You can relate to the characters and feel what they are feeling. A good book for a rainy day, a day at the beach or gift giving.

Old Memories Never Die

Myra Lipinski the girl who never got asked out is someone you would talk to at school, not someone you would bring home with you. June 8, 1968 is the last day when she saw him, Chip Reardon, her old high school crush. Myra Lipinski who is now a visiting nurse working for a temp agency finds a message on her machine one day asking if she can take on another patient, a fifty one year old man dying from a brain tumor. His name is Chip Reardon. By becoming a patient of Myra¿s, they both learn from each other what it means to really live and what it means to really love.

Elizabeth Berg is one of the best......

writers of women's fiction. I absolutely love her writing style. After reading Open House and Never Change I went to the Library and read all of her novels. I would recomend all of them. I hope she never stops writing because I can't get enough!

Another Berg hit

I love Elizabeth Berg and have read all of her novels. This one too, is just excellent. The story line is great and very touching and the ending was surprising, yet inevitable.

Incredibly sad but inspiring

This is the second Elizabeth Berg book I have read in four days, and the third overall. Her writing style just kept me hooked. I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning just to finish this book. Myra is a character I admired and therefore found it easy to sympathize, from her feelings of being a fifth wheel with Chip and his girlfriend to her feelings as she watches her one true love fade away so soon after she finds it. While the conclusion was inevitable, it was also one that I needed to get to, at the expense of a good night's sleep. I could identify with and 'feel' for all of the main characters but Myra's strength and morality was most admirable. I would recommend this book whole-heartedly to anyone. However, make sure you have tissues handy. But it was worth the sadness.

Fabulous!

This woman is my new favorite author. I loved 'Open House' so much I decided to try 'Never Change'. I cried my eyes out in the end! This book is definitely worth checking out! I have also read her book of short stories called 'Ordinary Life' It was wonderful as well. I have not been disappointed by Ms. Berg's novels and neither will you!' I will be going back to B&N to find other books by her.

Berg just keeps getting better

Reading this book is like curling up with a good tearjerker movie like 'Long Gray Line.' I laughed, cried and hated for the story to end. She has a knack for populating her books with real people, people you know.

Just as good as Open House

Couldn't wait to read this next book after enjoying Open House by the same author. I was not let down and finished this read in two days. The story was a wonderful love story and the characters were all very enjoyable. You really felt as if you had entered Myra's little world. I highly recommend this book!!!

I Cried

I discovered this book recently and read it straight through finishing it June 25th in just over one day. I then read something else and now have just finished JOY SCHOOL also by Elizabeth Berg. I love finding a new author (for me)and Elizabeth Berg is really good. I now have OPEN HOUSE and look forward to starting it. Think what I really like about the two that I have read is that the endings aren't 'and they lived happily ever after' endings. More true to life. Not everything in life is 'happily ever after'.

A SPLENDID READING OF A POIGNANT STORY

Film and stage actress Maryann Plunkett is a splendid choice to read Elizabeth Berg's latest novel, 'Never Change.' Once again Ms. Berg adroitly offers a less than sanguine protagonist who's getting along by getting along. Myra Lipsinsky is 51, unmarried, and convinced she never will be. She has devoted herself to her career as a visiting nurse, and to the care and well being of her dog, Frank. Myra describes her youthful self as 'the one everybody liked but no one wanted to be with.' Things haven't changed much over the years - that is until Chip Reardon, the love of Myra's life in high school, returns to town. But Chip has come back home for a tragic reason - he is dying, and Myra becomes his nurse. Skillful author that she is Ms. Berg paints their relationship with insight and depth. This is a story well worth the listening.

beautiful and poignant love story

Even as a child Myra Lipinsky had no friends and failed to connect with anyone. She sold the tickets to the prom, but no male asked her to go with him. As an adult, she had become a visiting nurse. Her occupation is her only satisfaction as she is content with her solitary status especially since her dog Frank provides her with companionship.

At fifty-one, her high school secret crush Chip Reardon returns into her life when he is dying from an inoperable brain tumor. Chip refuses to accept chemo or radiation that will grant him a few more months to live, but at a dramatically reduced style of life. Chip moves into Myra's home where he teaches her to live and she teaches him to love.

Elizabeth Berg has written a beautiful and poignant love story centering on a person accepting his fate and living what time he has left in life to the fullest. Chip's gift to Myra is helping her to open up to her feelings even as she provides him with the nurturing and the support he needs at the end. NEVER CHANGE is a five-tissue box novel, for the tears that flow not out of sorrow, but out of living. Elizabeth Berg has written one of the most dramatic and beautiful books of her career, one that celebrates life to the fullest despite the death sentence hanging over the hero¿s head.

Harriet Klausner

Berg Does It Again!

Elizabeth Berg strikes gold once again with her latest novel, Never Change. Poignant and endearing, Never Change picks up where Talk Before Sleep left off. I couldn't put it down, and almost hated to finish it.

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