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for one more day by Mitch Albom

What would it be like to have one more day with someone you loved that has died?
" for one more day " written by one of my favourite writers , Mitch Albom. Causes us to look at, and reflect on, family, parenting, blame, difficulty, alcoholism, divorce, and so much more. It is, unfortunately, a reflection on real life. I am not a very fast reader though and yet it took me just more than a day to finish.

I'll tell you guys a little bit about the story :

Well the story is about a boy who grows up in the 50's and 60's kind of worshiping his dad who tells him he has to be a "daddy's boy" or a "mommy's boy" but he can't be both so he picks to be a "daddy's boy and then he sees his father disappear when he is 11 years old and he never comes back. His mother is sort of left to raise him and he never really appreciates her because he's always chasing after his father. Even when he is an adult he becomes a baseball player for a period of time to try and get his father back into his life. After that, when he is in his 40's he goes chasing after his father one last time and the weekend after he does that his mother dies and he's not there. He begins to regret all of the time he didn't spend with her and his life starts to go downhill, he becomes an alcoholic, he looses his job, and his family. He actually decides he wants to kill himself because he doesn't want to live anymore. He goes back in the middle of the night to the little town he grew up in. He goes to his abandoned old house and he pushes in through the door planning to kill himself and he hears his mother's voice calling him from upstairs as if she was still alive and had never died. She comes downstairs and she is right in front of him as if she had never died. All of a sudden he begins this one last day that he gets back with her where he doesn't know if she is dead or alive or if he's dead or alive or whatever. She spends the day with him and kind of walks him through his life and shows him all of these things he didn't understand about it, and him, his father, and all the rest. He finds out that a lot of things he should of done while she was alive he gets the chance to do on this one last day with her.

Pheww…what can I say. The non-fiction and ghost-like story touches me and brought me tears…I can only say this is the best book ever I have read this year so far. To me, it's very moving and it definitely is a worth reading book. However, the warning is if you don't like venturing into emotional story, may be this is not your book.

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