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'For One More Day' review by Book Club member Sam..

I have just started reading 'What Dreams May Come' by Richard Matheson, our current book club read and it immediately reminded me of a book which is quite possibly my favourite read, 'For One More Day' by Mitch Albom:
I found this beautiful book captivating and devoured it in two sittings.
 
“And one day spent with someone you love can. . .”
 
'For One More Day' is about a broken man, Charley, who tries hard to take his life one day. However, the result is one more day with his dead mother. He gets to spend one more day with a mother who to a degree, he thought he had recklessly lost forever. It is based around the concept of spending one more day with that person, you can't. So simple and yet so clever. We can all relate to this book as we all have at least one person who we'd like to spend that extra day or chance with. For Charley, this is possible –as Albom suggests that the dead may be carried in our hearts and when we think of them, they live again.
 
“Remember me for these days not the old ones”
 
Obviously there are a couple of major themes in this book, life after death and family. This book is beautiful and feels so very real (which is of no surprise given who we find out to be the narrator at the end of the story). Apparently Albom often writes stories that make you think and will stay with you forever. There is no doubt I will remember Charley and his beautiful mother Pauline.
'Things can be fixed” 
This story covers some harsh issues in life and is full of quite dark and depressing elements but it is also full of love, surprises, a little humour and vivid descriptions. You probably realise by now that I found this novel utterly spellbinding (there were some smiles and a few tears) and about as lovely, sweet and perfect as I could ever imagine a read to be. I urge everyone to read it!
 
“You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute”
 

 

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