It was a heart-felt book to read, and perhaps it is a fitting tribute to the author's mom that she has a son whose love for reading and books led him to write one.
I have to admit I am a tad cynical when siblings or children or people write books with 'illness of the month' tagged onto it, (Tuesdays with Morrie) because it can be a lazy shorthand way of letting the emotion/sentiment write itself in the book.
But this book wasn't so much about living life large though the author or his mom but the love they had for different books.