Thursday, May 27, 2010

For One More Day by Mitch Albom


This book was amazing!!! Once I started it , I couldn't wait to keep reading which I read it in less than a week! This book was about a depressed man, who after trying to kill himself, goes home and sees and feels his dead mother. I found this really weird! I still didn't get how he really felt her and some of her clients. His mom said that if you really needed or wanted people, you would be able to see them, but I still don't get how he felt his mom and how she made him a real breakfast. He wasn't dead, so that isn't it. This book was realistic fiction and I think i liked it so much because it was very relatable to some situations I have been in and things I have seen on TV. His parents are a typical couple for parts of the book and argue a lot, which eventually leads them to a divorce, along with the dad's affair. The main character's name is Charley. Charley's dad is a very cold man who only cares about his son's career in his baseball, ignoring him for most of his life until something baseball related came up, then he started to care about his son. He doesn't even act proud of his son when he does great things. I really didn't like him. He was too cold. His mom was very nice and caring! I liked her! This book makes you think about your priorities like family or career. I was very grateful for what I have after reading this book. I loved it!

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Murder on Gramercy Park by Victoria Thompson


This is the second book by this author I have read by this author and I liked it a lot. I started another book by this author earlier this quarter but couldn't get into it, which is why I have finished a book in a while. I liked this book a lot. It was a murder mystery about a special healing doctor who was murdered. Because I read another book by this author and watch Desperate Housewives, I pretty much knew who committed the murder in the first couple of pages. By the end of the book, there were two murders and one attempted murder. I had a guess of who did all three of these things right after they happened. This book, you can tell, takes place in a very different time period, probably the 1920s. They have carriages and opium dens and lots of butlers and maids. Also, the wife of the doctor is addicted to morphine, which does not really happen anymore. People get addicted to different drugs now like nicotine and heroin. these probably didn't exist in this time period. The plot of the book became really messed up at times with everything getting tangled together. Like the other book, at the end , the author explains everything and everyone gets tangled together.