Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg ~ Book Review

Sisters Kitty and Louise both have waved their boy friends off as they went to fight across the ocean in WWII.  Now at home both are doing what they can to help the war effort.  Going without, dancing at the dance hall with soldiers and writing to as many as they can are just some of the things that have become part of daily life.  While Louise finds writing easy and is never without things to say to her fiance, telling him about her days and romantic things from her heart, Kitty is having difficulty writing a paragraph much less ones with romantic notions.  Words just won't come.  When she meets a soldier at a dance and starts writing to him the words just flow.  Now everything Kitty thought about love and romance is thrown into confusion as she works this through in her heart.

I found this book ok.  There were a lot of characters to contend with, Kitty and Louise being from a large Irish family.  Kitty's constant inward looking grew a bit tiresome to me.  It just didn't capture me.  I pushed through just to see how it came out in the end.  But then I found the ending odd and it left me scratching my head, like there was a big gaping hole in the story.    I felt there was not enough explanation of how the conclusion got to the point it did.  What I did like was the glimpse of what it was like for ordinary families that were left behind while their husbands, fathers, brothers and boyfriends were off to war.  The everyday worries that plagued not only the adults but the children as well, no matter how they tried to keep it from the children.  What they had to do with all the rationing, how they got through their days.  That was well described.

I rated this a 6.5/10

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