Reading Summary

For One More Day By Mitch Albom Pages 51-63

Again we start with "Times My Mother Stood Up for Me." Chick is nine years old and at a library where he is trying to check out "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne, but the librarian says he is too young and insists he pick something else. So he picks out a book he's already read and meets his mom. When she asks him why he got a book he's already read, Chick tells her that the librarian said it would be too hard for him. With this, Chick's mom marches back into the library and demands the book. When the librarian tells her he's too young, she snaps, "Don't you ever tell a child somethings too hard. And never-NEVER-this child."
Times Chick didn't stand up for his mom:
At dinner one night, Chick's dad is being hard on Chick's mom and says the dinner tastes bad. When his dad asks him if he likes it, he looks from his mom, to his dad, and back to his mom before saying it tastes bad too.
The next few pages explains Chick and his mom in the present sitting at the table eating lunch. She asks if he can stay all day, and he says he can. Then when he starts to say, "You can't be here..." she cuts him off and tells him to grab his coat because they're late to go somewhere. The next page is a letter written by his mom. It was on the day he had to get his tonsils out and she wrote it so right when he woke up she would be with him.

First of all, my reaction to the library story is, wow. Good for her for standing up for Chick like that. No one should discourage a growing kid like that, it only gives the less confidence to work hard.

Until Monday, goodbye!