the Five People You Meet in Heaven

When it comes to reading it's either I have a book, or the book has me. I've had the book "Brother Odd" (a Dean Koontz paperback) since my honeymoon, just sitting there, bookmark moving by small leaps every few weeks. I finished it on my flight out to Chicago, just didn't grab me. That's not the case with all books. I knocked out Marley and Me in less than a week, and in the past have fully read the massiveness that is Stephen King's "It" in 4 days (Amazon shows it as 1104 pages). It grabs me and sucks me in like no book ever has, my favorite book ever. I've read it at least a dozen times. The TV adaptation of the story was good, but can in no way really tell the story the way Stephen King can.

Anyway, I digress, onto the book at hand... The Five People you Meet in Heaven. I picked this little book (196 pages) up at the paperback exchange store Kaeleigh and I discovered a few weeks ago. There was this whole "Oprah's Picks" section. Quite honestly I could care less what Oprah thinks I should read, O has no idea what I like, but I was standing there talking to Kae as she was flicking through the titles and the jacket to this book caught my eye. It's a little book, maybe 7" x 5", just the right size to slip in a purse or a backpack, so I stole it. Just kidding (hee hee). I'm big on my books being portable. If the book has me, it comes with me anytime I have to wait... pickup Kae at youth group? 10+ pages... pickup for skating? dentist office? it's ok, I've got the book.

Packing for Chicago I was determined that this was the last trip Brother Odd was coming on with me and threw the 5 People in my suitcase as well. I was very early for my flight home from Chicago, so I grabbed a muffin, a machiatto and a chair and started to read about these 5 people. I finished it before we landed in Philly. What a great book. So wonderful and almost peaceful I think, that's the best way I can describe how it made me feel. If you haven't read it I really think you should... and so does Oprah.