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Tuesdays with Morrie
The
first time I remember hearing about Tuesdays with Morrie,
was in my first quarter at college. When it was brought up
again, I couldn't remember what it was about, but I do remember
it was one I wanted to read. When at the store or the
library I could never remember the title or the author.
Luckily I have a boyfriend who loves to read with the same
passion as me. He owned the book - what a break! I
immediately borrowed the book, refilled my Dr. Pepper, got comfy
in my favorite chair and opened the cover.
Told by
Mitch Albom, a sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press for more than
thirty years, Tuesdays with Morrie was his final thesis, written sixteen
years after he graduated from college.
After learning of his favorite professors imminent death from
ALS on “Nightline” with Ted Koppel, Mitch flies every week to
Connecticut for his final lessons. “The class met on Tuesdays.
It began after breakfast. The subject was The Meaning of Life.
It was taught from experience.” Tuesdays with Morrie is a true
story about learning to live by watching death. The two discuss
an issue every week, thirteen topics that range from the world,
aging, marriage and the perfect day; and on the fourteenth
Tuesday, they finally say goodbye.
As a girl in my
mid-twenties, I don’t look at death as being an imminent
possibility; I only think about what I’ll have for dinner that
night, or what I’ll do the next day. But, after reading Tuesdays with Morrie, I’ll rethink my days, because I wouldn’t want to
look back, when I know my time is ending and say to myself, I
sure wish I would have done this, or I really wish I would have
tried this. Morrie figured out how to live when he learned that
he was dying, and I hope that I’ll remember that. And if not,
I’ll be sure to have Tuesdays With Morrie at my bedside when the
time comes…
Other books by Mitch
Albom include Fab Five, Bo, and Live Albom, I
through IV, as well as Five People you Meet in Heaven,
recently made into a TV movie starring Jon Voight.
Rating:
Must Have!
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