The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Kim Edwards

"Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell."

"You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and advert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have."

I wanted to like this book, so many people recommended the book to me and said how good it was. I read the first hundred pages fairly quickly but then the story decided to slow down and got really boring. The writing of the book was alright, not the best. The plot of the book was actually really interesting and fascinating but the way it was was written did something.

• There were way to many sub-plots in the novel. This made the story more confusing then it ever had to be.
• Over half of the scenes in the book were ruined by the author herself. She wants to address a bunch of topics but they are naive.

I don't know what else more I can say about this book. I usually enjoy little parts of books that I have read but this one was just bad (sorry to everyone that recommended it to me and thought it was fantastic). But who knows, maybe you will read it and love it! This is just one opinion.

Till the next time!

Rebekka.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

The Five People you Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom

"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it all the time."

"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."

"Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes on a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand... You can't tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory... Memory becomes your partner. You hold it...you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn't."

This book taught me about many things... death, love, God/heaven, and life's unanswered questions. Everything happens for a reason, even though it might not feel like it at the time.God has a plan for all of us and everything will eventually come together and be told to you.

Eddie had a brave soul but he didn't think that he was anyone in life. When he eventually passed away, he ended up saving a little girls life. That is something to be proud of even if you don't know that you did that until later on. In heaven, Eddie gets to meet five people; who have been in his life before or who have sub-continuously been in his life. These people were there to greet him and answer all of his unanswered questions and why God gave him purpose in life. I definitely have unanswered questions already, even though I am only 23 years old. Why are we here on Earth? Why did God make me the person who I am today?

I would say that this novel isn't overly religious even though Albom talks about God and heaven a lot. This is a book that everyone should read in life, maybe it will help answer some of your unanswered questions already. You will be spiritually touched! The book is witty written with phrases that made me laugh and poems thrown in here and there. It made for a very interesting read. This won't be the last Mitch Albom book I will read!

God has purposes for us in life, even if it only means working as the burger boy at McDonald's, or to be a mistress, or a CEO of an oil and gas company, or just an ordinary man that gets by from day to day. Little things in life matter the most.

Until next time!

Rebekka.