Review: This book should be made into a movie
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 25, 2013
This is the story about a mysterious train which makes stops in towns that no one has ever heard of, an old man who magically appears and disappears, a storm that won’t end and time that seems to be stuck at 10:00 p.m.  The book also has a very odd cast of characters which includes: the cut-throat businessman who is willing to destroy anyone and everyone who he thinks might keep him from reaching his goal of becoming very rich and powerful, the career army Sergeant who has seen so many of his men killed that he has become hardened and bitter, the old grandmother who lives in a little shack in abject poverty and yet serves the meal that she had planned for her own Christmas dinner (and which happened to be the last food in the house) to strangers who show up on Christmas Eve, a little boy whose father has been killed in the war and a man who cannot get over the death of his wife three years ago and has climbed into a bottle where he chooses to stay while ignoring the needs of his little son.When I started reading this book I had no idea how all these people could possibly fit together and I couldn’t figure out what on earth was happening.  I am so glad that I kept reading because I absolutely loved this book.  It was a lot like A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens in that it was about how choices each of us makes impacts other people, some of whom we have never even met.  I highly recommend this book and if you believe in Christmas and in Christmas miracles this book will be especially meaningful for you.