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Title: Stage Door Canteen by Maggie Davis ISBN: 0-7592-5776-0 Publisher: eReads.com Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (21 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: this needs to be a movie!
Comment: Well, I'm a romance reader or fantasy reader. But since I know Maggie Davis aka Katherine Deauxville from her romance books - Crystal Heart, Red Red Roses,and Enraptured, The Last Male Virgin - I was willing to give this a go. Literature, generally, is not my cup of tea and I am not a big fan of WWII drama. Contrary to all that going in, I found myself caught up in the sheer drama of this book. My attention was fixed by scene after scene of various people, living in New York during the war. How they coped, their individual personal stories. I guess, we all see movies about Pearl Harbor and such, that is never crossed my mind that New York actually was so touched by the "closeness" of war. I especially loved the peek behind the curtains of the production of the musical Oklahoma. That was a book into itself. Yet, around that, Ms Davis cleverly weaves the menacing threads of war. Such a brilliant contrast - the whimsy of the musical against submarines lurking off the coast like wolves, waiting to attack ships leaving the harbor; that the lights of Broadways had to be dimmed so they would not silhouette the departing ships. It sent shivers up my spine.

It's such a visual book; it demands to be made into a movie, with so many great parts for women. I always see interviews with Penny Marshall, Sandra Bullock, Madonna, the actresses who have gone into production as well as acting, saying there are no good parts for woman they can adapt for film. Well, this is crying for that with several great roles for women; several for me. David is so dashing!

So thanks to the "elf" who sent me the book and said "read or I shall come after you with my claymore". I might not have picked it up on my own otherwise. Considering this is one of the best books I have read in ages, I am so glad I got it as a gift. Don't wait. Buy it yourself.

Rating: 5
Summary: a beautiful book that is amazing
Comment: Okies, was given this book and said I must read, by someone who knows good books. Still, I thought, hun? It's literature, not romance, its about WII, which I know very little other than Historical Channel, and thought I did not want to know. So, I went in reading thinking, no matter how good, this is not my cup of tea.

BOY WAS I WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was mesmerised by the images this book put in my mind, held spellbound and could not put it down. You just don't see books like this very much again more. It brings to mind Pearl, From Hear to Eternity, The Winds of War, but is a woman's book, telling straight from the heart what the women went through when their men go to war, how they tried to support them, and how war affected their lives. How it changed them.

It's rich in so much details, so thrilling to get the behind the scene look at the production of a Broadway musical, yet she swings into another chapter with a harrowing sea battle with a U-boat.

I was totally absorbed and all I could say was WOW!!

Thank you, Ms. Know-it-all, for insisting I read it!!! Don't let it go to your head, but you were RIGHT!

Rating: 5
Summary: a book for the times
Comment: This book is about WWII and it does a very brilliant job of carrying the reader back to that period, with such reach details that you feel you are there. However, this is a book for the times. The emotions of a nation - though to a lesser degree for some - are still seeing our young men going to war, lives are still left handing, ripped apart or destroyed. As such, the book is as relevent today.

David stole my heart...I cried.