Book Pitch

For One More Day

Mitch Albom

 

I came across this book because I really enjoyed Mitch Albom’s book: The Five People You Meet in Heaven. For One More Day is about Chick who gets to spend one more day with his deceased mother. Within that day, he goes through an adventure where he learns so much more about his life than he had ever known before. If you are a person who likes an easy-to-read, touching stories; then this is the book for you. I felt so good about this book because once I started to read it; I did not want to put it back down. It is just one of those books where you want to read to the end in one day.

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I feel this picture represents the relationship with Chick and his mother when they are spending their last day together. They walk around together and talk about their past and Chick cannot love her mother more. During that day, Chick realizes that all throughout his life that he had been treating his mother poorly. He realizes all the things that his mother did for him, and all the things he did to hurt his mother.

After reading this book and seeing the relationship between Chick and his mother and what they have gone through, I realized how much parents sacrifice for their kids. I learned how as kids, you sometimes don’t appreciate your parents as much as you should because they really do so much to take care of you.

The World is Flat

The World is Flat

Thomas L. Friedman

Non-Fiction

This book is for the type of reader that likes informative, non-fiction books. This book doesn’t have a plot or any characters rather it’s about the author trying to sum up the history of the 21^st century. If you want a book with an elaborate story line this book is not for you. Throughout the book the author describes how the world has been changing through technological advances which bring us all together. The internet, the development of outsourcing and cell phones are just some of the things he talks about that have affected the world in a drastic way. Through all these advances we have been making the world has increasingly become smaller where everyone is united. Therefore, he believes the world is “flat”. In one of his examples of this “flattening” or uniting of the world, he talks about how companies are expanding throughout the world like an Indian call center helping out American customers with their products.

In a book review by the New York Times the book review calls Friedman’s metaphor of globalization to the flattening of the world ingenious. He also goes on to say the way this book was written makes it very accessible to read. I agree with both, writing in first person definitely helped me understand the book better. Friedman’s evidence for the flattening of the world was put into a fairly easy to read format. I gave this book a 7 because of how interesting I personally thought it was. It might not be the greatest book for others to read, but I enjoyed reading about his ideas (plus it was easier to read than I thought).