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A review by erin_j
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
4.0
Kitty Miller is single and owns a bookshop with her best friend. Her parents are close and life is going really well. Until the dreams start…She is Katharyn Anderson, married to a wonderful man and caring for their 3 children. But life is not as perfect as it first seems in the dreams. Kitty just wants the dreams to stop. But which world is truly a dream?
This books starts a little slow. Just getting to know the characters and figuring out both lives that Kitty is living with all the background of both storylines. But if you stick with it, the last half is all worth it. You just keep reading wondering which world is actually her reality. And why is she having these dreams/blackouts in the first place? What triggered all of this? Quite interesting.
There are some difficult parts to read. One of Katharyn’s kids has autism and she doesn’t treat him too well. Or more doesn’t know how to treat him or interact with him. So that was hard to read. You just want her to know and care for him as a mother should. But this was set in the 1960s and I think there was more of a negative stigma to autism and mothers and they didn’t know too much about it.
This was a good book. The title is misleading…she owned a bookshop, but the bookselling was hardly part of the story…oh well.
This books starts a little slow. Just getting to know the characters and figuring out both lives that Kitty is living with all the background of both storylines. But if you stick with it, the last half is all worth it. You just keep reading wondering which world is actually her reality. And why is she having these dreams/blackouts in the first place? What triggered all of this? Quite interesting.
There are some difficult parts to read. One of Katharyn’s kids has autism and she doesn’t treat him too well. Or more doesn’t know how to treat him or interact with him. So that was hard to read. You just want her to know and care for him as a mother should. But this was set in the 1960s and I think there was more of a negative stigma to autism and mothers and they didn’t know too much about it.
This was a good book. The title is misleading…she owned a bookshop, but the bookselling was hardly part of the story…oh well.