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Title: A Choice to Cherish: A Novel by Alan Maki ISBN: 0-8054-2338-9 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Just outstanding!
Comment: I've read a string of short novels lately and this one was the best of the bunch (and if you look at my other reviews, you'll see I've read some good ones!).
It's refreshing to have poignant Christian fiction written by a man. The two main characters in this story are also men. Most Christian fiction seems to be aimed at women, unfortunately, so this was freshing. Another reviewer mentioned that he was going to purchase copies of this book for high school graduation gifts, and I think that's an excellent idea!
The story begins when almost 20-year-old Alan reluctantly agrees to spend a week caring for his dying grandfather in a small town in the mountains of Montana. There has been some distance between Alan's father and his grandfather, and during Alan's stay, he learns the reasons for this through a series of 8 stories his grandfather has written, to go along with 8 gifts that are under the tree. Grandpa has told Alan he can choose one as his Christmas gift.
Maki's depiction of these characters is outstanding. You really know these characters. It's wonderful to see the young man in the story grow in compassion through this book. Their relationship is precious. This book isn't predictable or sugar-sweet. It's just perfect and I highly recommend it. Don't wait til next Christmas - read it now - and while you're at it, get in some early Christmas shopping and buy a few copies for friends and family!
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Rating: 5
Summary: Withholding forgiveness alters so many lives.
Comment: If you liked Paul Evan's "The Christmas Box" Series, you'll be right at home with Alan Maki's "A Choice to Cherish." It is a wonderful read for all ages. Maki takes the readers into a family's heart and shows the life-long damage that can be done to every member of a family when foregiveness is withheld from just one person.
Like Evan's message in his Christmas Box Series, the message in this book needs to be retold over and over. It is a good read for anyone, but especially poignant for anyone who has ever struggled with forgiving someone and has just not been able to do it...or who has forgiven and been blessed by it...or who has seen families or friends separated by the withholding of forgiveness. The way Maki shows the ramifications that spread through generations from just one unforgiving heart is awesome.
Sometimes you feel like you're the dying grandfather; other times you feel like you are the grandson who has been estranged from this wonderful old man through no fault of your own. You'll share both the heartbreak and the joy as these two men are brought together by appoaching death, finding each other in time to break down the wall that has kept a whole family apart for a lifetime.
Well worth reading and sharing with a friend or family member. A book I'll reread. A message I hope I'll always remember.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Choice to Cherish
Comment: I was loaned this book to read a year ago and then determined I would buy some this year for high school graduation gifts. That is what I am doing now! Reading this little novel is just like you are there living every moment of it.
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Title: Blessings : A Novel by ANNA QUINDLEN ISBN: 0812969812 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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