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I picked up the book to pass a few minutes....I didn't put it down until I had turned the last page.
I was instantly drawn in by a woman still grieving from losing her mother and trying to find her way and it quickly looks as if that may be a tougher challenge than anyone could have expected! The ideas studied in this book are eye opening and riveting to say the very least. Characters you're quickly invested in having to deal with them....they won't let you go until the very end.
Highly recommend!


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The Forgetting Time A Novel Sharon Guskin Books Reviews

A fascinating premise made into a novel. I really looked forward to this book especially due to the excited reviews. I struggled through it in parts due to so much of it feeling "dry" to me. I simply could not get into the characters even though they were well-described and had clear dialogue. Perhaps it was due to the extreme use of stream of consciousness -- just too much of it. For me it deeply dulled the reading experience. Great topic, great idea to use the impact of a child dealing with a reincarnated soul/personality to drive the story, great idea to use this to aid others in attempts to resolve their own loss. Very thoughtful book.
The story starts out a bit slowly as we are introduced to Noah, a preschooler with unsettling behaviors, and to Jerry Anderson, a researcher studying the bleed-through of lives past. Soon, the train of intrigue and curiosity catches us up in a whirlwind of personalities. The story continues at a steady pace and is never preachy or melodramatic. It takes us to insights, conflicts of beliefs and ends up with the reminder of the power of love.
This book describes something that ALL of us think about throughout our lives. It is not just a story, but a door into a subject you just won't forget. Written well too. Reincarnation. . . is it real? Can there be life after this life? Much has been written about stories taken from very young children, mostly out of the U.S., documented, and later verified as truth. How could a small child know these things unless they actually had first hand experience. And short snips of these reported incidents are included along the way of reading Sharon Guskin's novel. How can that not jar us into questioning what is real and what imagined. The protagonist we read about here is a little boy of four, living in New York with his single parent mother. What sense can she make of the odd aversions, out of context information beyond his years, and horrific nightmares this young child keeps referring to and experiencing. Medical intervention and teachers can only sidestep the tumult evidenced. Help arrives in the form of a psychiatrist who had spent his career, and a good piece of his reputation, interviewing and studying these reincarnation stories and the children reporting them. Now he is dying of a disease for which there is no treatment. Noah, at four, and his mother who just can't give up because there are no answers for her or help for her son - finds her way to the good doctor. He is up against little time before his aphasia renders him non verbal and dying, and Noah becomes his last chance for an American example to further substantiate his last book. The book that gives him a hope of a lifetime's research being taken credible. This book has motivated me to read further on the subject and I appreciated her references to her own sources. Dr. Robin Bentel, Marin County, Ca
Whether you believe in reincarnation or not (and proponents will undoubtedly point to the numerous “real” cases presented in Jim B. Tucker’s work “Life Before Life Children’s Memories of Previous Lives as proof [why do virtually all these “cases” take place in foreign, destitute lands?]) you must admit that Ms. Guskin weaves a fabulous FICTIONAL story here. Full of mystery and plot twists, it’s a very intriguing story. The problem here though is that she seems hell-bent on proving her literary chops and fills this otherwise well told story with pages upon pages of mind-numbing introspective verbiage that I’ll wager you end up skimming through to get to the meat of the story. And when you do arrive, it’s very good…it just takes such hard work to get there.

So OK, it’s a first novel and I can forgive overzealousness…but this is what an editor is for…on so many occasions here we get contradictory emotions even in the same paragraph! One of our main protagonists is a fading psychiatrist, a Dr. Anderson, who’s just been diagnosed with an early onset of aphasia, which for a writer and scientist is a death knell. So often in this book, Ms. Guskin feels compelled to take us into Anderson’s mind…his inner feelings about his work, his disease and his life (he lost his wife five years earlier). Paragraph upon paragraph emote sorrowful conflicts that have him convinced to end his work, only to pick it back up again, again often in the same paragraph.

Another character, the mother of the young child who’s the subject of the story, is virtually the same emotionally…conflicted with whether to go on and find what’s truly wrong with her son or to just dump the charade and hope that he’ll grow out of it. Again and again we get overwhelmed with her frustrations and inner demons at her son’s behavior…trust me, after about the twentieth time that you experience this, you will skim through the obligatory two to three pages devoted to this latest descent into the melancholy world she’s developed.

So what’s good about this work? Well, it’s about a four-year-old boy who consistently tells his mother that he “wants to go home” when he’s already home. Interesting. Also, he complains that he wants to see his “real mom” and he cannot stand water, refusing to take a bath and struggling mightily when having to do so. His birth-mother Janie is obviously perplexed, mystified as to not only why Noah (her son) is acting this way but, more importantly, what she needs to do to end it.

Meanwhile, Dr. Anderson, who’s life work has been studying children who vividly recall details of a past life, ponders his ever shortening future. Out of the blue, though, Noah’s mother contacts him, having learned of his work while searching for help for her son, and Anderson becomes rejuvenated. Meeting with the mother and boy, the story takes on a riveting quality as Noah’s previous personality is uncovered.

But again, with undue and distracting digressions into the minds of the characters, we the readers are forced to endure far too much to get through an otherwise interesting plot. Others may find these sidelights interesting but I certainly did not and I would only recommend this to the most patient of readers.
I picked up the book to pass a few minutes....I didn't put it down until I had turned the last page.
I was instantly drawn in by a woman still grieving from losing her mother and trying to find her way and it quickly looks as if that may be a tougher challenge than anyone could have expected! The ideas studied in this book are eye opening and riveting to say the very least. Characters you're quickly invested in having to deal with them....they won't let you go until the very end.
Highly recommend!