Jack Park

This is my second Mitch Albom book I have read - the first being The Five People You Meet In Heaven - and from just these two books I can say that Mitch Albom is one of the greats. Even after reading The Five People You Meet In Heaven, which shocked me to my core, The Time Keeper still surprised me with it's bold and thought-provoking meaning. This book is about 2 people, representing 2 different views on life. The first being the wanting of time to pass faster, this told through a teenage girl called Sarah and the second being wanting time to go slower and take longer, this exhibited through an old rich man named Viktor. Watching over both of them is the time keeper, a young man named Dor, who after inventing a way to measure time is forced to live for multiple millenniums in a cave who listens to the cry's and begging of people on Earth. This book is very sad, though it is a must read. The messages and morals of this book are very important in todays society and I think anybody could learn from this book. If you are a fan of Mitch Albom and have not read this book, go to a local library and look for a copy. If you can't find one there, order one online, as this is for sure one of Mitch Alboms best and most worthwhile books.

Now, is the third book in the "Once" book series, written by Morris Gleitzman. I have previously read the first 2 books previously to this and was excited to dive back into the lives of the fictional character Gleitzman wonderfully created. However, I was quite surprised to find out that "Now" happens to be set decades later then the first 2 books, all the way up to the modern day, though the first 2 were set during the second World War, and it followed the story of Felix's granddaughter, Felix being the protagonist of the first 2 books. I can not lie, I was disappointed when I discovered this, as I read through the pages of the first chapter, but as I read more and got deeper into the book, I really started to get into it. This book, though not being as emotionally intense as the first 2, does still carries the weight of the first 2, as you see a far future version of Felix, still being effected by the events of the first 2 books. Morris Gleitzman did a wonders writing this book, somehow continuing the story of Felix when it is set over half a century later, something that has rarely been done. Though I didn't enjoy this book as much as I did the first, this book is still excellent and I would extremely recommend this books to fans of the first 2 books or fans of Morris Gleitzman's writing in general.