The Light Between Us, Laura Lynne Jackson

AMTK (Andrew Mazorol and Tynan Kerr), Seance, 2012

(February 25) With one day left before it was due, I sampled the first page... and it was so gripping that I dropped everything else then and there and read it cover to cover.

It was not hard to finish in one day: these were amazing stories. First of all, CLEARLY the Other Side and "bonds of light" exist... all the experiences this woman, and her many medium friends and acquaintances, relate cannot be just coincidences and wishful projections. Something's going on.

Some of the stories of reunions with loved ones on the Other Side are absolutely heart-wrenching... I was sobbing over the stories of the father, the son, and the belt, the girl and the kitten... the whale! ...the bee! 

The oddness mixed in with the touchingness in each story makes it all so convincing.

Jackson has a nice narrative style but a strange habit that I noticed: she always gives the height of the men when she describes them, usually precisely. If they are not at least six feet tall, though, she won't bother with precision (or will merely say "he was not tall"). Women are almost always described as "pretty" within the first two words of a description. The funniest quirk!

I should have read this ahead of Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe -- I would have been less underwhelmed.