Showing posts with label Mitch Albom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mitch Albom. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Book Tuesday: For One More Day by Mitch Albom

When Charley "Chick" Benetto was a child, he was a daddy's boy but his father left the family when Chick was about to become a teenager, this broke his heart. This event shape him into a man a bitter man, that pushed everybody he loved away.


Chick is now a broken man, full of regret. His wife left and his daughter doesn't want him at her wedding. All these things combine sent Chick into the abyss of alcoholism and to make a choice that will take him on a journey with his mother who passed away eight years earlier into the past. On this journey Chick discovers that all about the things he thought he knew about his parents, were exactly like he thought they were. It opens his eyes and give him the courage to change and regain what he lost.


For One More day will take you on journey of redemption and understanding, that everybody should take and enjoy.


Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Book Tuesday: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Eddie is a bitter war veteran who feels trapped in a life he did not want for himself. He works in an amusement park fixing the rides. Eddie feels he has not done anything worthwhile with his life, it makes him feel unfilled and bitter. On Eddie's 83rd birthday, he is in a tragic accident and dies trying to save the life of a little girl. When he dies, he wakes in heaven, where he finds out that heaven is not what he was taught it would be.

In the heaven, Eddie discover, it is a place where your life is explain to you by five people. The people Eddie meets in heaven are people whom he may had loved or strangers who may had touched his life without him knowing. In heaven, these five people show Eddie all the connection of his life and the events that shape him.

The five people you meet in heaven is a beautiful story about reflection and the afterlife. It will teach us the meaning of life while we are here.