For One More Day

I feel really soppy now.

I've heard this guy before. Mitch Albom has been praised from more than one quarter among the various ppl I've mixed with. Finding this book in my house when I popped home this summer, I decided to see what the fuss was about. Pretty dangerous, considering this is how I got interested in Harry Potter.

It was well worth it.

The premise is simple. A man on the verge of committing suicide after a wreck of a life, wakes up to see his mother. The only problem: his mother's been dead 20 years, marking the downward spiral of his life.

What would you say to someone if you could have them back all over again?

On hindsight, I suppose a lot of what was written could be called corny and a rehash of some movie or other. But the fact of the matter is, I liked what I read. Simple sentences, nothing complicated. Not pretentious, no cringe-worthy moments, you never get the sense Albom's trying too hard to get his point across. Plus a twist at the end.

A short book that left me feeling good at the end. Not good as in feel-good, but good knowing that authors like this still existed and books like this were still being written.

And I want to read his other books.