Mitch Albom Revisited: For One More Day

I'm sorry I didn't post this earlier.  I finished up with For One More Day a month or two ago, but it was so good that I remember finishing it like it was yesterday.  For those of you in Ingram's engaging death and dying class, this should be read after Tuesdays With Morrie.  Both are amazing reads and contain life-changing morals relating to death and dying (and life and living according to Mr. Ingram!).  That's not to say that both works are at the low level of fable.  For One More Day is a work of fiction, but in my opinion certain aspects of the story could be true of many professional athletes.  

Similar to Tuesdays With Morrie in that it is about one major character, the novel is about a professional baseball player who has a very unique form of near-death experience in which he spends time with his recently dead mother who acts as if she never died.  The washed up MLB player gets much-needed guidance from his mother as he searches for a purpose to live after losing everything dear to him.  For inquisitive Ingram students, the clinical death occurred after Charles "Chick" Benetto, the protagonist, threw himself from the top of a water tower in an attempt to commit suicide.  

I will say no more on plot!

It is a very quick read and contains just as important a central meaning as the longest masterwork.  Clearly quality over quantity, which for contemporary authors is very important because many people now do not seem to have as much time on their hands to read a work as long as Crime and Punishment or The Count of Monte Cristo or It.  All of Mitch Albom's works have been short, but sweet.  I am about to start reading another of his works, The Five People You Meet in Heaven.  I saw the movie based off of it with veteran actor Jon Voight (he was in National Treasure) as the lead character a few years ago and loved it.  It's a shame the movie was only made for TV.  I would recommend reading all of Albom's books instead of just reading Tuesdays With Morrie.  If one reads his three major works and gets his fourth book which just came out, that's four easy blog posts.