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A review by xhenetaa
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
5.0
This is a story about a woman who owns a bookshop with her friend Frieda. When sleeping, she finds herself in another world where she is married and has 3 kids. She starts enjoying this world and thinks it is a perfect world, the world she is living in. Slowly, flaws begin to show and she realizes that it actually isn't a really perfect world. Which it makes it more real to me. There are problems happening in the family, changes in her attitude, her distance from her very best friend...and other events that I would very much suggest it to ya'll to read it.
Let's get a bit spoilery!
I linked all this story to defense mechanisms because I think they explain this story very well. 1.Regression, which is a defense mechanism leading to the temporary or long-term reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of development rather than handling unacceptable impulses in a more adaptive way. So, I think her parents' death made her go to an early phase in her life even though it wasn't completely the way her life was before and some details were added. I think her parents' death caused her too much stress to handle so she went back to a time when she felt saver, better and a time where her parents were alive. 2.Denial which is the refusal to accept reality or fact, acting as if a painful event, thought or feeling did not exist. She refuses to accept this reality and acts as her real life events didn't actually happen and that her mind was making it up.
Sounds confusing but once you read it, it makes sense.
I loved the plot twist very much and was very astonished by it.
Truly, a wonderful read!
Let's get a bit spoilery!
I linked all this story to defense mechanisms because I think they explain this story very well. 1.Regression, which is a defense mechanism leading to the temporary or long-term reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of development rather than handling unacceptable impulses in a more adaptive way. So, I think her parents' death made her go to an early phase in her life even though it wasn't completely the way her life was before and some details were added. I think her parents' death caused her too much stress to handle so she went back to a time when she felt saver, better and a time where her parents were alive. 2.Denial which is the refusal to accept reality or fact, acting as if a painful event, thought or feeling did not exist. She refuses to accept this reality and acts as her real life events didn't actually happen and that her mind was making it up.
Sounds confusing but once you read it, it makes sense.
I loved the plot twist very much and was very astonished by it.
Truly, a wonderful read!