A review by lucy_qhuay
Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There's Life After Death by Annie Kagan

3.0

This book was actually recommended to me by my grandmother, which is rare since no one in my family is that much of a reader, myself being the exception to the rule.

Anyway, she is a very superstitious person, connected to all sorts of creeds and the latest led her here. She loved the book and decided I should read it too, in order to open up my eyes to new worlds.

The thing is, I don't need people to open up my eyes to the spiritual world. I have my own beliefs already, even though people might not know it.

There are things I believe in, others I don't and others I'm still considering. Such is the case with every aspect of my life.

I don't appreciate people trying to force their truths upon me. Let us all respect each person's space and right to make their own minds about a particular subject.

Now that I got that out of the way, I can say that I don't know how to feel about this. I'm not saying Annie Kagan is a charlatan or that she has a hidden agenda she's trying to thrust upon us. I'm simply saying I don't know what to think about most of the things she touched in her book.

To tell you the truth, this journey did give me a sense of wonder and peace, but everything was so different from what I believe that I read it as if I was reading a fiction book. That was the sense I got. A nice book about what a grieving sister would say to her dead brother.

I do believe in life after death. Everything around me gives me a sense that there is something greater than myself. This can't be it. There has to be something more.

Let me borrow the words of someone wise:

“Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.

Gandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

Pippin: What? Gandalf? See what?

Gandalf: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise."