Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

This month I read nine books and six short stories:

 

The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Levels of Life By Jules Barnes

The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom

10 Saker Min Son Behöver Veta Om Världen by Fredrik Backman

Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan

...och De Vita Skuggorna I Skogen by Maria Gripe

Loverholic, Robotronic by Elin Mellerstedt & Johanna Stillman

The Bane Chronicles (6 short stories) by Cassandra Clare

 

 

I started off the month with reading the last two books of The Chaos Walking trilogy; The Ask and the Answer & Monsters of Men. Patrick Ness is one of my favorite authors and I was definately not disappointed by these books. The world Ness has built up is amazing likewise the characters.

Ness has a way of keeping you on the tip of your toes and when you finally think you know what's going to happen he drops the biggest plottwist of the century.

 

I read Anne of Green Gables for uni and I liked it. It was quite refreshing to read about such a outspoken girl as Anne is. She's also quite confident and can be seen as a tomboy but at the same time she potraits the typical girl. She has a romantic outlook on life and loves the idea of love and getting married.

 

Anne shows the reader how to be an indipendent girl who still seeks for love.

 

Levels of Life by Jules Barnes is one of those books I saw in the bookshop and liked the name and the beautiful cover so I bought it. I can tell you that the inside is as pretty as the cover; both very simple but so very beautiful.

Barnes writes about love, life and death in three parts; history, fiction and memoir.

 

There were two books that I was so excited to read this month.

The first one was The Time Keeper by Mitch Albom. I was rather disappointed to be honest. I liked Alboms writing but couldn't get hooked on the story. The ending gave me a feeling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

 

The other one was The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan. I think I overhyped this one. Levithan has written one of my favorite books Everyday and I've enjoyed all of his other books like Boy Meets Boy, Dash & Lily's Book of Dares and Love is the Higher Law, but this one didn't do it for me.

I feel like this is a book for people who are in love and I'm not one of them at the moment. So as soon as I fall in love I'll pick up this book and hopefully fall in love with this book as well.

 

The six short stories were the last ones in The Bane Chronicles. I gave the whole book three stars. There were stories I loved, like Vampires, Scones and Edmund Herondale and Saving Raphael Santiago, and then there were some I absolutely see no point of even being published. Either way Magnus Bane will remain the fabolous character that he is!

 

You can find a review of Loverholic, Robotronic here!

 

 

 

 

 

It took some time to finish this book because I had others I needed to read and return to the library, as well as others I read in order to write reviews for. But every time I picked up and read this book i was in a state of relaxed thought, as odd as that sounds.

A story with such thought and delicacy as this one was presented in the best way possible, it's short but to-the-point chapters really pushing the entire story along. It was divided logically into sections and answered all the right questions at all the right times. 

It should be said that the characters aren't terribly original, especially the character of Sarah, although because of her generality I would think she appeals to many people who read this book. This most likely isn't the kind of book that will make you say it's the most original thing you have picked up during your entire reader's life, but it wins you over with its presentation. Where the character of Dor fits what many people may imagine to be Father Time, and the situations in the book also being common daily situations, it really is the overall story process that will make you keep reading, the perfect pace at which every thought is presented and emotions are being drawn.

I stuck with the context that was set up in the beginning, the back story of Dor and his family that didn't quite make a play on my emotions, but it was easy to keep up with the pace of the book, easy to get back into every time I put it down over the last month and a tad that I spent reading it. It was a perfect opportunity to let the thoughts marinate and sink in. It was, in general, a very pleasant story, nothing mind blowing, but definitely powerful in the ideas which were contained within.

This marvelous fable left me delighted. Even though I am not religious in any way, probably because it did not preach, this novel was enjoyable. This was my first novel by this author, but not my last.

Since the dawn of time man has been measuring what we do and don’t do. We are introduced to Dor and his family. Dor creates the first clock and pays dearly for being engrossed with measuring time instead of just living. God banishes Dor to a cave with no way out. There is where he hears the cries of those who ask for more or less time. Eventually he is released, gets reacquainted with humanity and finds a way to help some. I find that all of Mitch Albom’s books are clever, moving and thought provoking. I seem to always find at least one sentence that turns my way of thinking in a way I could not imagine. He never uses to big of words or metaphors that you have to stop and take time to understand. Albom’s writing just flows into something so natural you feel you have heard before. I do not know about anyone else but the fact that God punished Dor for creating a the first clock is a little scary. I mean if you think about it Dor was only doing what he was good at, what came natural to him. Would you not say that was why God created him with that skill? If that is so then why punish for a way of thinking that was given as a gift from God? Even though there is things I do not understand about God’s reasoning. I still enjoyed the book and still love learning about myself and others by reading what Mitch Albom writes.