Reader Response #1- The Secondhand Bookseller

I just finished reading The Secondhand Bookseller. To be honest my first thought was that this short story was going to be about a bookseller, but instead it was about a little girl who loved to read. I did not really like the amount of detail that the author put into this story. I felt that it was a bit overkill. It seemed like they talked about how hot it was and they described the bookstore a little too much. I mean, a bookstore is a bookstore. One of the things I liked about the story was that the bookseller was very nice to the girl in the end by letter her barrow books. I didn't really like him in the beginning of the story because I felt like he was being rude to her by saying that she probably couldn't understand one word in the book. Another part I liked was when the main character and her friend made an exchange for money with a pencil box. I thought it was funny because I remember doing stuff like that in elementary school. I also felt like they put too much detail into the side story with Sarah and her neighborhood and her parents. I did not think it was relevant to anything. Overall, it was a good short story. I just wish that it didn't have so many details about things we already got the point to. I feel like when books or short stories do that, they can sometimes lose the reader in detail and then not get the main point to what they are reading.