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A review by sarahesmaewolfe
The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom
5.0
7/11/19
A year later and I'm still thinking about this book. I was very unsure how to rate this last year for many reasons. I was struggling with the faith I was handed in my childhood and I wanted this book to be something that gave me hope. But instead, I felt betrayed by the author.
It's very reminiscent of my own journey. Believing one thing for most of my life and then realizing I was lied to about many things and not knowing what to think anymore, which is exactly how this book made me feel at the time I first read it.
Now this book speaks to me on another level. It explores the topic of hope and false hope and how easily the line is blurred between the two. Can something that is long believed be true or just carried on as an idea through generations? It it wrong to be oblivious to something you want to believe even if it may not be the truth?
A year later and I'm still thinking about this book. I was very unsure how to rate this last year for many reasons. I was struggling with the faith I was handed in my childhood and I wanted this book to be something that gave me hope. But instead, I felt betrayed by the author.
It's very reminiscent of my own journey. Believing one thing for most of my life and then realizing I was lied to about many things and not knowing what to think anymore, which is exactly how this book made me feel at the time I first read it.
Now this book speaks to me on another level. It explores the topic of hope and false hope and how easily the line is blurred between the two. Can something that is long believed be true or just carried on as an idea through generations? It it wrong to be oblivious to something you want to believe even if it may not be the truth?