March 2, 2015
52 Life Lessons from Les Misérables
I love Les Miz. I have seen many of the hollywood reproductions and I have read the book; unfortunately, I haven’t seen it on stage…yet (oh, it will happen)! When I was offered the chance to review 52 Life Lessons from Les Misérables by Bob Welch, I jumped all over that – even though my usual practice of only reviewing books that I could donate to my library left me thinking that I would be the only one reading this book!
One would think that you’d have to have a least a working knowledge of Les Miz’ story to enjoy this book; but I didn’t find that to be true. Even if Welch hadn’t have given a brief overview of the story (which he did quite well at including just enough that the readers could have a basic idea of the who, what, when, and where of the story), I think the readers could have followed along quite well. This is because the lessons Welch chose from Les Miz were lessons that could have been taken from almost any long book or series – such as Harry Potter.
That being said, I enjoyed this book. It was a good refresher to the story of Les Miz (now I want to reread it…) and the lessons were a good reminder of living life and faith in a way that isn’t selfish and is practical.
I was given this book by Thomas Nelson in return for my honest review of it.
Living in Grace 