review: tuesdays with morrie
Book Review #2
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
[bookcover: Tuesdays with Morrie |6900]
Mitch Albom
Originally published: 1997
Page count: 192
Publisher: Doubleday
Genres: Novel, Biography, Memoir, Philosophical fiction, Biographical Fiction
Tuesdays with Morrie is a biography of Professor Morrie Schwartz written by his student Mitch Albom. When Morrie was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS), he wanted his final days to be spent happily and with the people around. Mitch is a successful sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press. After seeing his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz appear on Nightline, Albom phones Schwartz, and is urged to visit him. Albom visits his professor every week, on Tuesdays. The book recounts each of the fourteen visits Albom made to Schwartz, supplemented with Schwartz's lectures, life experiences, and many other life stories and events.
The novel is divided into 14 different "days" that Mitch Albom spent with his professor Morrie. Throughout these days, Mitch and Morrie discuss various topic important to life and living.
The first Tuesday they talk about the world, the second about feeling sorry for yourself, third about regrets. Death, family, emotions, fear of ageing, money, how life goes on, marriage, culture, forgiveness, perfect day and goodbye for the next consecutive Tuesdays.
The life lessons keeps the reader engaging and makes one hook to the chairs. Quotes like - "Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.", "Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.", etc helps one think about life from a different perspective.
The book is a must-read for the ones who feel life is waste and for the people who are afraid of dying. Everyone should read this book at least once in their lifetime.
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Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch AlbomMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
[bookcover: Tuesdays with Morrie |6900]
Mitch Albom
Originally published: 1997
Page count: 192
Publisher: Doubleday
Genres: Novel, Biography, Memoir, Philosophical fiction, Biographical Fiction
Tuesdays with Morrie is a biography of Professor Morrie Schwartz written by his student Mitch Albom. When Morrie was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS), he wanted his final days to be spent happily and with the people around. Mitch is a successful sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press. After seeing his former sociology professor Morrie Schwartz appear on Nightline, Albom phones Schwartz, and is urged to visit him. Albom visits his professor every week, on Tuesdays. The book recounts each of the fourteen visits Albom made to Schwartz, supplemented with Schwartz's lectures, life experiences, and many other life stories and events.
The novel is divided into 14 different "days" that Mitch Albom spent with his professor Morrie. Throughout these days, Mitch and Morrie discuss various topic important to life and living.
The first Tuesday they talk about the world, the second about feeling sorry for yourself, third about regrets. Death, family, emotions, fear of ageing, money, how life goes on, marriage, culture, forgiveness, perfect day and goodbye for the next consecutive Tuesdays.
The life lessons keeps the reader engaging and makes one hook to the chairs. Quotes like - "Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.", "Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.", etc helps one think about life from a different perspective.
The book is a must-read for the ones who feel life is waste and for the people who are afraid of dying. Everyone should read this book at least once in their lifetime.
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