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<\/a>Tuesdays with Morrie<\/em>\nMitch Albom<\/strong><\/p>\n
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what took me so long to read Tuesdays with Morrie<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous and recommended constantly, but I somehow let it go by the wayside for years.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, I got my hands on a copy, and it was horse-blinders until I was finished with it.\u00c2\u00a0 I read the whole book in a day: I started it after the morning meeting \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I read it between classes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and then I sped home so I could finish it in my apartment.\u00c2\u00a0 It took hold of me, as it seems to have done with the other 11-million-plus people who have bought it. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I wondered, what could all of us millions of readers find in this little book that is so compelling?\u00c2\u00a0 I found the answers in both the ying and the yang \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we find life in the face of death.<\/p>\n The book chronicles the Tuesday conversations between its author, Mitch Albom, and his college sociology professor Morrie Schwartz.\u00c2\u00a0 After graduation, Albom promises Schwartz he will keep in touch, but his life takes him in other directions, from poor pianist to wealthy sports writer.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, out of the blue, sixteen years after graduating, Albom finds himself staring at his old professor on the TV.\u00c2\u00a0 Morrie had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Disease (ALS) and is slowly dying.\u00c2\u00a0 This becomes the catalyst for their reunion, and what follows is chronicled with compassionate prose by Albom in this book.<\/p>\n The two meet every Tuesday afternoon to discuss various themes of life, from love to compassion to forgiveness and ultimately, to death.\u00c2\u00a0 I was struck particularly with the honest and humble nature of the entire book.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t once find myself far removed from the pain or the lessons \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it was written to be accepted, and it does a marvelous job of that. There were chapters that pulled my heart strings, and others that made me crinkle my nose and laugh.<\/p>\n If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re feeling homesick or a little lost these days, I think you should brave the book and see what it has to offer you.\u00c2\u00a0 There is no harm in getting a dose of memoir-ific literature, right?\u00c2\u00a0 It feels good to be reminded about some of the small and important facts in life and the lessons we find betwixt them.<\/p>\n Happy reading!<\/p>\n P.S. Mitch Albom also wrote another non-fiction book titled Have a Little Faith. <\/em>AND \u00e2\u20ac\u201c if neither of these novels makes you cry, re-evaluate your life, or want to hug every person you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever loved, then you can also pick up Randy Pausch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Last Lecture<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 All three of these books have something in common besides dealing with the powerful inertia of living and subsequently, dying \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they are all on my \u00e2\u20ac\u0153read-in-a-day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d list.\u00c2\u00a0 Such is the power of a well-written memoir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what took me so long to read Tuesdays with Morrie. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous and recommended constantly, but I somehow let it go by the wayside for years. Finally, I got my hands on a copy, and it was horse-blinders until I was finished with it. 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