The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Registered by lizzyblack of Kinsale, Co. Cork Ireland on 5/20/2007
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
11 journalers for this copy...
Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him. In alternating sections, Albom flashes back to Eddie's birthdays, telling his life story as a kind of progress report over candles and cake each year. And in the third and last thread of the novel, Albom follows Eddie into heaven where the maintenance man sequentially encounters five pivotal figures from his life (a la A Christmas Carol). Each person has been waiting for him in heaven, and, as Albom reveals, each life (and death) was woven into Eddie's own in ways he never suspected. Each soul has a story to tell, a secret to reveal, and a lesson to share. Through them Eddie understands the meaning of his own life even as his arrival brings closure to theirs.
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I bought it a lot of time ago, but went on my TBR and I almost forgot it was there... well, now that it isn't on my TBR anymore, I must tell you I liked it. It is a strange book, gives you a particular vision on what coul happen "later on". All endings are also beginnings... I agree ;)
The book is now a bookring! Well, some rules..
1. please make one JE when you receive the book and one when you are going to send the book
2. try to be as quick as possible in reading the book. I believe that 2 months are enough for everyone, the quickest you are, the most I will like you :P
3. you can underline, the book and leave comments on the page, but pleas use just pencils and crayons
4. take one bookmark each
For any question, feel free to contact me :)
And, finally, here is the list:
HeresDeb (Illinois, USA)
Mamikaem (Missouri, USA)
Bjorg (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Etripney (Glasgow, Scotland)
Silver-Greece (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Etnagigante (Catania, Italy)
Anatolla (Rome, Italy)
Introoder (Rome, Italy)
Franciek (Florence, Italy)
Agnul (Milan, Italy)
Mickey81 (Como, Italy)
Back home to Lizzyblack
1. please make one JE when you receive the book and one when you are going to send the book
2. try to be as quick as possible in reading the book. I believe that 2 months are enough for everyone, the quickest you are, the most I will like you :P
3. you can underline, the book and leave comments on the page, but pleas use just pencils and crayons
4. take one bookmark each
For any question, feel free to contact me :)
And, finally, here is the list:
HeresDeb (Illinois, USA)
Mamikaem (Missouri, USA)
Bjorg (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Etripney (Glasgow, Scotland)
Silver-Greece (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Etnagigante (Catania, Italy)
Anatolla (Rome, Italy)
Introoder (Rome, Italy)
Franciek (Florence, Italy)
Agnul (Milan, Italy)
Mickey81 (Como, Italy)
Back home to Lizzyblack
Received as part of a bookring by lizzyblack. Thanks for sharing it -- and thanks for the cute bookmark :-)
This book was very intersting -- easy to read and hard to put down... the perfect summertime read! It certainly gives a new point of view of what heaven could be. I found myself turning page after page to find out who Eddie would meet next in heaven and what they would have to teach him. Interestingly enough, in Albom's vision of heaven we are not all-knowing once we die. There are still lessons to be learned even in the afterlife. It gives you some things to think about in this life and possibly for the next.
I have just PMed the next person in the ring and will send it on once I hear back.
This book was very intersting -- easy to read and hard to put down... the perfect summertime read! It certainly gives a new point of view of what heaven could be. I found myself turning page after page to find out who Eddie would meet next in heaven and what they would have to teach him. Interestingly enough, in Albom's vision of heaven we are not all-knowing once we die. There are still lessons to be learned even in the afterlife. It gives you some things to think about in this life and possibly for the next.
I have just PMed the next person in the ring and will send it on once I hear back.
Sent off to Mamikaem, as part of the bookring.
Received this in the mail today. I LOVE the bookmark, lizzyblack. You are so creative! :o) I have another book ring in front of this, but I'm heading for Destin, Florida next week so this will be going along with me. Thanks so much for sending it on HeresDeb.
Such a great book and such a quick read! I started this the last night of my vacation in Destin, Florida and finished it during the day of travel home yesterday. I've seen this book in bookstores for ages, but never took interest. I'm so glad I got a chance to read it! Will PM Bjorg and send it on as soon as I get an address. Thanks!
Mailed to Bjorg on 08/07/07.
Mailed to Bjorg on 08/07/07.
Journal Entry 7 by Bjorg from Reykjavík, Reykjavík (Höfuðborgar svæðið) Iceland on Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Got the book today from Mamikaem and it´s just the perfect timing:) I´m going abroad after 4 days and I´ll take the book with me and read it while I wait at airports etc:) really look forward to read it.
Thanks for the bookmark Lizzyblack:)
Thanks for the bookmark Lizzyblack:)
Journal Entry 8 by Bjorg from Reykjavík, Reykjavík (Höfuðborgar svæðið) Iceland on Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Just finished this book, really enjoyed it. found it to be so intresting and really like the way Albom writes. I was so curious to see how it would end and which people he would meet!!!
will now PM the next person in line:)
will now PM the next person in line:)
Journal Entry 9 by Bjorg from Reykjavík, Reykjavík (Höfuðborgar svæðið) Iceland on Thursday, September 6, 2007
Will mail the book to Etripney tomorrow:)
Got as part of a book ring. Fantastic book. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Have emailed next on list for address but no reply as yet. Will try again.
Have emailed next on list for address but no reply as yet. Will try again.
Journal Entry 11 by Silver-Greece from -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Friday, March 21, 2008
I've received the book yesterday and I'll start it immediately. Thank you lizzyblack for the bookmark!!!!
Journal Entry 12 by Silver-Greece from -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Monday, May 12, 2008
It's such a lovely book, and so interesting. I'm really sorry for the delay. I've just PMed to the next person. Thank you again lizzyblack for sharing
The book is in Catania.
I really enjoyed this book (and Lizzy's bookmark), even if I don't believe in life after death. Anyway, the story is very sweet because shows us that all people are related to eachother and every simple life can be important. Each person the main character meets in heaven teachs him (and us) a lesson about life, love and friendship.
This book begins with an end, because the main character, Eddie, dies in the first pages; but every end is a beginning.
A fun note for this is is that I learned a lot about amusement park, because Eddie, spent his life as mantainance man in it.
I really enjoyed this book (and Lizzy's bookmark), even if I don't believe in life after death. Anyway, the story is very sweet because shows us that all people are related to eachother and every simple life can be important. Each person the main character meets in heaven teachs him (and us) a lesson about life, love and friendship.
This book begins with an end, because the main character, Eddie, dies in the first pages; but every end is a beginning.
A fun note for this is is that I learned a lot about amusement park, because Eddie, spent his life as mantainance man in it.
Released 15 yrs ago (12/10/2008 UTC) at
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Partito.
Partito.
Beautiful, romantic, moving story! And lovely bookmark, Lizzy!! :-)
Just found it in the mailbox...
Darn! I wanted to dismiss it like some kind of romantic nonsense. I still think it is, but at least it was quick and painless (also, the main guy was nice ;-)).
In the post, leaving today :-)
Book received!I will start it in a few days!
I've just finished this little book.It was the second by Mitch Albom I read.
I really enjoyed it 'cause I've always believed in a sort of life after death and I hope something like this story will happen for real!
The following is one of the sentence I've note down on my quotation book:
"The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone"
Liz thanks for the bookmark! Your book will come back home soon!
I really enjoyed it 'cause I've always believed in a sort of life after death and I hope something like this story will happen for real!
The following is one of the sentence I've note down on my quotation book:
"The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone"
Liz thanks for the bookmark! Your book will come back home soon!
Well, the book is back home! I'd like to thank all of you for joining and leaving me comments :) I now have to think what to do with it, I'll probably let it go in my next trip to Dublin :)
Journal Entry 23 by lizzyblack at Lisbon, -- Por correio / mão própria -- Portugal on Sunday, April 26, 2009
Released 15 yrs ago (4/27/2009 UTC) at Lisbon, -- Por correio / mão própria -- Portugal
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Books just wanna be free! See what I mean at:
Sending it to Portugal as a RABCK. Happy reading!
Books just wanna be free! See what I mean at:
Sending it to Portugal as a RABCK. Happy reading!
Wooohhh a Book from my wishlist! :)
Thanks a lot, lizzyblack! I'm quite curious about it! :)
You have made my day! :)
Thanks a lot, lizzyblack! I'm quite curious about it! :)
You have made my day! :)
Released 11 yrs ago (5/22/2012 UTC) at Lisboa - City, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal
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Reserved to SOU's new library, in Rua Maria 73 (Forno do Tijolo), Anjos, 1170 Lisboa, Portugal
Happy Reading! :)
Happy Reading! :)
