Tuesdays with Morrie

Few books touch me so indelibly. Rarer still are true stories that leave a mark or impression on my soul. Tuesday’s with Morrie has done that with rapacious wit, candora, melancholy, but most importantly, truth. Life is to be lived, and fully, not sequestered away seeking money, fame. Life is who you love. This is a book to own. I hope my kids will pick it up off the shelf when they’re old enough and give it a read.

by Mitch Albom

5 Stars

Recommended

Monday it’s back to the grind: we come back to work or school. Wednesday is hump-day, halfway thru the week. Thursday’s almost friday, and Friday I’m in love. So where does this leave Tuesday?

An old student becomes reacquainted with his professor/mentor as a terminal disease looms in this true and heartening tale. Rather than being a morbid existentialist dirge the book is a requiem to life. Morrie’s observations on what really matters ring true for jew or gentile, christian, protestant, atheist or hedonist. Morrie is a wise man made wiser by the constraints of his illness.

Few books touch me so indelibly. Rarer still are true stories that leave a mark or impression on my soul. Tuesday’s with Morrie has done that with rapacious wit, candor, melancholy, but most importantly, truth. Life is to be lived, and fully, not sequestered away seeking money, fame. Life is who you love. This is a book to own. I hope my kids will pick it up off the shelf when they’re old enough and give it a read.

I’ll not think idly of Tuesdays again.