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Title: My Sunshine (Coulter Family)
ISBN: 0451213807
Author:
Catherine Anderson
Publicate Date: 2005-01-04
Publish: 2005-01-04
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: This romance just made my heart melt!
The heroine in this story suffers from aphasia because of a brain injury many years ago. Her name is Laura. She has trouble speaking long words. She has trouble counting. She sees some numbers and letters backwards. Despite everything, she has managed to live an independent life and hold a job.
She has accepted that men will no longer be interested in her because of her speech problems. She never expects to find love again.
Enter our hero - Isaiah - a veterinarian with a warm heart that needs a good woman to take care of him because he stays so busy that he simply forgets to take care of himself. He overlooks the heroine's bad speech and sees her big heart.
The story was just a little slow to get going, but it was so worth it. I loved the story. It is incredibly sweet.
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2: LOVE THIS BOOK!
Really enjoyed this book -- Catherine Anderson is one of my favorite authors and this is a great read!
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3: surprisingly good
Let me start this off by saying that I really don't like books about people overcoming tragedies or handicaps. The characters in those books come off as incredibly saintly, showing how horrible the rest of us are in comparison, because even without terrible things to overcome, we're merely human.
Let me assure you, My Sunshine is not that kind of book. The heroine of My Sunshine does indeed have a tragic handicap to overcome. But she's also very human. That makes all the difference.
Laura Townsend used to have everything going for her. She was intelligent, and had a brilliant career. Then a head injury resulted in aphasia, meaning the once articulate woman now has trouble saying words of more than two syllables, counting, and can read only the simplest things and only with great difficulty, actually much more than her doctors had expected from her, and accomplished after a great deal of determined work. Now the only job she can get is cleaning up in a veterinarian's office, and that only as a favor to veterinarian Isaiah Taylor's matchmaking mother and her friend.
My Sunshine explores this unusual handicap with warmth and sympathy, without ever descending into sappiness. Laura and Isaiah face problems both because of and unrelated to her disability.
I knew Catherine Anderson had pulled me in with her previous books, but I was still wary of this one--a brain-damaged heroine? I was expecting Forest Gump. I was wrong, and was very happy to be so.
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4: A great read
Laura suffered a accident five years prior and as a result, she now has a form of brain damage called aphasia. She can live a pretty normal life, just has a hard time counting and saying 3 word syllables. She comes to work for Isaiah,a veterinarian and a real sweeet guy who has no interest of a relationship for a couple of years yet. As they spend time together, they start falling in love with each other slowly but each deny it. Overall the story was great and there is an underlying mystery that is easy to see who the assailant is (why I gave it a 4), but it was a sweet story. The love scenes were great and I loved that she took the time to develop their relationship and it wasnt at all forced. The only real downside is that it dragged on at times and that Laura sometimes seemed a little too nice. This was my first Coutier family read and I felt lost at times, like I should know some of the other characters, so I recommend that you do not start with this one. I am going back and start the stories at the beginning.
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5: Another of my Favorite Authors
A book in a series which I wish to own by another of my favorite authors.
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