In 'For One More Day' Charley Benetto comes to the lowest point of his life. His career is in tatters, his family life broken and his finances spiralling out of control. Feeling as though things could not possibly get worse he gets drunk and then attempts to take his own life. Returning to his home town his suicide attempt fails and he makes his way back to his childhood home, only to meet his mother who had died eight years previous. Mitch Albom explores the potential of meeting with a lost loved one for one last time, and being able to resolve all of the unanswered questions you had in life. I have been dissapointed in every Mitch Albom book I have read ...  Read the complete review

For One More Day, by Mitch Albom, is a unique and beautiful novel that will stay with you for long after reading it. It is almost painfully sad at some points, but it is also uplifting and gives belief in the possibility of redemption for people who have created a mess of their lives, and see no way forward. Charley is a man who has given up on his life. He has become an alcoholic and driven away his wife and daughter through his bad behaviour, which has been caused by regret over his too-short baseball career, his poor treatment of his mother, and never fully earning his father's approval. When news of his daughter's wedding, to which he has not been ...  Read the complete review

Mitch Albom's books always sound so enticing and from the moment I read the blurb on the back cover I just know I have to purchase it. The last Albom book I read The Five People You Meet In Heaven was exactly like this but left me feeling a little disappointed after I had read it and unfortunately 'For One More Day' also left me feeling the same. The book's blurb draws you into a world you think you are going to left and entices you to read a book you think you'll never want to put down but for me this just wasn't how my reading of the book left me feeling. The blurb's short snappy sentences and intriguing plotline premise seem in my opinion to be written ...  Read the complete review

"For One More Day" is a story about a man who has lost everything in his life. His job and also his family. One night he decided to commit suicide by crashing his car and somehow he was brought to his hometown and see his late mother alive again and do what she usually did when she was alive and acted like nothing has happened. Charley, the name of this guy, remembered what he had done to his mother. I really like this book. It remind me of my mother and how I love her so much. I think it was what Mitch Albom wanted to show to us, about how we should be thankful of what we already had in our life. Another thing I love about this book is how Mitch ...  Read the complete review