Beautiful. And so painful for a mother of three boys. To picture them without you someday, or their lives falling apart...so, so painful. A touching, beautiful, truly haunting story.
I loved this book as much or more than I loved Tuesdays with Morrie. Again Mitch follows a simple wander through memories of a mother and echoes our own deep love and deep love and regrets about our own mothers. Again such a short piece, yet so satisfying and emotionally wrenching.
“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.”Before I read this book for my English class, my mother and I weren't ...
Chick chose to be a daddy’s boy only to have his father disappear when Chick was on the verge of adolescence. His life is crap and the last straw is when his only daughter has left him out of her wedding. He goes back to his hometown, with the intention of taking his life, but after failing to do s...
I wasn't really impressed by this book. It was a quick read, and it kept me turning pages but I didn't really feel inspired by it. It was pretty obvious what was happening and the characters seemed rather one-dimensional to me.My favorite parts of the novel were the "Time My Mother Stood Up For Me"/...
Very touching book. Much of what the protagonist goes through is very close to my heart, and reading the last chapter made me teary. I'm not a parent, but I am a daughter, and reading this book has reminded me in a gentle and soothing way the sacrifices parents and caregivers make for their childr...
"Let me guess, you want to know why I tried to kill myself?" For Albom is loaded by writing mere fucking book reports. Evaluating this book is akin to ingesting sourly perished pancakes along with acidic decaffeinated java. Argghh!!!
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