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The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom

All thanks to My Life in Books , I heard of Mitch Albom. I love the way  Jennine G.  writes about the books she has been reading and more often than not, I find myself elongating my to-be read list based on her recommendations. The discovery of Albom was perhaps a long time coming, since S and some of his friends had already read his work. So this last weekend, while we were browsing through the airport bookstore and I saw The First Phone Call from Heaven , I proclaimed that this is an author to read about and S said that he already had ! He has Tuesdays with Morrie which has had glowing reviews, as I discovered later. I do feel a bit like an ignorant fool to have completely skipped over an author of this reputation.  Source: http://www.bookworm.com.sg/books/first-phone-call-heaven/ Anyway, it took me a week of hard reading to finish The First Phone Call from Heaven . And my first impression of the book, once I shut the covers, was that it resembled, in a garbled way, one