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Up until the 20th century it can be said that the evolution of music was relatively slow, with certain genres and composition styles staying popular for decades upon decades, if not centuries. For instance, classical music has been evolving for hundreds of years while countless folk songs have gone unchanged since the dawn of time.

As is usual with Mitch Albom, For One More Day is a novel which touches upon a rather heavy subject, following the story of Charley who, from a very young age, was always forced to choose between his father and his mother after they got separated. Things don’t change as he grows up, and one day he decides to secretly go visit his father on a weekend rather than his mother… a decision which doesn’t end well, considering she dies while he is gone.

The First Phone Call from Heaven is a rather unique and peculiar novel written by Mitch Albom, focusing on the citizens of a small town who have allegedly started to receive phone calls from those in the afterlife. As far as the people are concerned, the calls seem real enough and there is not a single indication that it may, in fact, be a hoax.

No one goes through life knowing the concept of time without spending some time thinking about it. Does time truly exist, or is it merely a human construct which we use to measure our lives? Because the question is rather philosophical in its nature, I have yet to find an answer which conclusively supports one side of the debate over the other.

Most of us are lucky enough to have had someone in our lives who served as a guide, as a teacher who showed us how life is to be navigated. For some people, that person was a grandparent, a parent, a teacher, or perhaps even a peer. In nearly every case, it is someone older and wiser who knows what he or she is really talking about. For celebrated author Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from more than twenty years ago.

We have all wondered at some point as to what happens beyond the realms of death… what happens to us once the body ceases to live. There are countless different theories, yet no indisputable facts which can give you an answer beyond all doubt. In his book titled The Five People you Meet in Heaven Mitch Albom depicts a very interesting concept of the afterlife through the life of an old and grizzled war veteran, Eddie.