I have been a fan of Mitch Albom's since the beginning. When I heard he had a new book out I immediately ordered it for the Library. I brought it home last weekend and finished the book within the hour. I truly enjoyed this book. In typical Albom fashion, he wrote a short, sweet novel that makes you think about life. The Time Keeper is about the beginning of time, or father time to be exact and how the world has changed so much since the invention of keeping track of time. We move to the present time and meet two characters. One fighting for more time and one who wishes time would speed up. It is up to Dor or Father time to educate both people on the meaning of time. I thought it was a lovely read and recommend it to all.
Review
“The Time Keeper” attempts to discover what people would change if they could control time. Albom focuses on the origin of Father Time and how he must return to Earth to save an old man and a teenage girl.
The character Dor becomes “Father Time” after he creates the first ways to measure time. Dor is banished into a cave to be bombarded with all of Earth’s pleas about time – to get more, to stop, to slow down…
Two particular characters stand out from the din – Sarah Lemon, a seventeen-year-old with way too many problems, and Victor Delamonte, a man dying from cancer who also happens to be the fourteenth-richest man in the world.
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