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Never Change
Never Change
Author: Elizabeth Berg
Myra Lipsinky has endured the isolation of her middle life by immersing herself in her career as a visiting nurse. She considers herself reasonably content until Chip Reardon, the too-good-to-be-true golden boy she adored from afar whilst at high school, is assigned to be her new patient. Now, as they find themselves engaged in a poignant rede...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780099441397
ISBN-10: 009944139X
Pages: 214
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3.2 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Arrow Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 5
very good, I read it in a day.This is a well written book about death that makes the reader appreciate life.From the prologue Berg begins pointing out the little things that make this life worth living.
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Helpful Score: 4
A very sweet love story. It makes you realize that you had it all wrong in high school. Make sure you have tissues handy!
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Helpful Score: 3
I really enjoyed this story. I loved her perspective (as a nurse) and despite the sad subject matter, I found it to be a wonderful story. I usually avoid "sad" books but this was a winner.
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Helpful Score: 3
I love this author, and once again, she does not disappoint. This was a poignant book of those who somehow feel left out of things when younger in school and always in life. It shows how one perceives themselves and the way other people see us. A great story that teaches us that things are not always as they seem. Sad, but beautiful. GinaK
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Helpful Score: 3
Classic Berg. A thoughtful look at those who are not a part of the "in" crowd in high school, and how they feel even into adulthood.
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Pleasant book. Easy to read.

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Sandiinmississippi avatar reviewed Never Change on + 265 more book reviews
This book has some very believable characters and beautiful language. Then, it has some totally unrealistic developments & actions by people who I felt were stuck in the plot to make a point. Overall, although it had a bit of a romance novel feel in spots, it was a feel-good, act-nice bit of fiction. It made me want to read more by the author. And it left me with a rosy glow that the leading lady had become truly a leading lady within her own life. She's had a dull time, served others as a nurse, never felt desirable, and suddenly a dying patient who went to school with her clings to her in a romantic love situation as he slips from life. While that may seem implausible, we never know what's ahead in life. This was a short and comforting read.
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Oprah author Berg (her Open House was a 2000 Book Club selection) turns in another sweet, unprepossessing and reassuringly predictable novel whose characters experience loneliness, loss and healing. "Odd-shaped," and with an "unfortunate" face, Myra Lipinski has been lonely all her life; she trained as a nurse "because I knew it would be a way for people to love me." Now 51, she lives alone with her dog and works as a visiting nurse in Boston, caring for an array of eccentrics that includes the feuding Schwartz couple, the feisty DeWitt Washington and the anxious teenage mother Grace. Resigned to spinsterhood, Myra is secretly thrilled when her agency assigns her to care for a former crush, Chip Reardon, who has returned to his parents' home with end-stage brain cancer. In high school, Chip was a golden boy, athletic and clever, out of ugly duckling Myra's league. Now, though, he and Myra strike up a friendship based on their mutual loneliness and on Chip's resistance to his parents, who want him to pursue aggressive treatment for his cancer. Chip prefers to die peacefully, a decision that only Myra seems to understand. Chip and Myra become inseparable: he tags along on her patient visits and eventually moves into her house, where their budding friendship takes a romantic turn. On the brink of death, Chip helps Myra to realize that her isolation is as much self-induced as fated; throughout their lives, both he and Myra have shied away from human closeness. In an inspiring, well-deserved denouement, Chip's inevitable death forces Myra to embrace the world in all its bittersweet complexity. Berg's fans will be grateful for the same gift: a novel that serves as a gentle, if unambitious, reminder to "only connect."
jazzysmom avatar reviewed Never Change on + 907 more book reviews
I have never read a Berg book i did not like. I have some that i liked better than others. This is one of them. This is a lovely story about a man who has an illness and chooses to not persue treetment. His visiting nurse, Myra is someone i came to care about as a beautiful lonely kind heart. This story is so well written it flows...making it feel like it is over before i wanted it to be. Ms Berg writes like life is sometimes or could very well be at any moment. Read just one of her books in your persuit of tasteing authors, her novels are treasures in your hand that creeps into the mind & heart.
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Another great read from Elizabeth Berg. I loved the role reversal of the two main characters as they adjust to their new roles in each other's lives.
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I really thought this book was a looking glass and different perspective of high school days and how we see ourselves. If you've ever felt inadequate and like a nerdy unpopular kid in school this book will make you re-think the whole ugly idea. We can be more and be happy if we let ourselves. I think Elizabeth Berg gets it right and does another amazing job in this book. A great read!!!
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Elizabeth Berg is a wonderful writer. I've ready many of her books and am always pleased.


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