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Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness
Moderate: Medical content, Grief, Death of parent
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slow-paced
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Graphic: Death
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I cried a lot while reading this book.
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Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Death of parent
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Very emotional book! The lessons taught stick with the reader, and the true nature of the story highlights human nurture in academia
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Minor: Death
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Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Death of parent
hopeful
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slow-paced
I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, Albom captures his old professors succumbing to ALS with dignity and a real sense of Morrie's autonomy in the process - which I really enjoyed. You could feel the love in their relationship on the pages and at times it was truly moving.
On the other hand, a lot of the "teachings" felt like empty platitudes. There was very little analysis in the conversations between Mitch and Morrie which led to the whole thing feeling a little shallow, and postcard-like. I found the lack of Mitch's presence in the book disappointing as it meant there was no room for any of the subjects in the chapters to really be explored through the student/teacher conversations. I understand this was an intentional choice to ensure Morrie had the centre stage, but it diminished the quality of the writing for me.
Overall, I think Tuesdays with Morrie is a easy to digest introduction into exploring death and our relationship with life. But fails to present meaningful explorations of the sociological topics it introduces.
On the other hand, a lot of the "teachings" felt like empty platitudes. There was very little analysis in the conversations between Mitch and Morrie which led to the whole thing feeling a little shallow, and postcard-like. I found the lack of Mitch's presence in the book disappointing as it meant there was no room for any of the subjects in the chapters to really be explored through the student/teacher conversations. I understand this was an intentional choice to ensure Morrie had the centre stage, but it diminished the quality of the writing for me.
Overall, I think Tuesdays with Morrie is a easy to digest introduction into exploring death and our relationship with life. But fails to present meaningful explorations of the sociological topics it introduces.
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Graphic: Death
Moderate: Medical content, Grief
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Graphic: Death, Medical content, Grief
challenging
emotional
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reflective
sad
slow-paced
"Tuesdays With Morrie" is an eye-opening book based on the true story of Morrie Schwartz, Mitch Albom's old college professor. The values and lessons taught in this book are priceless and inspiring. It deals with challenging topics - from family, to materialism, to death - and Morrie tackles these with ease, continuing to help and give to others, with his wise anecdotes and aphorisms, even through his own suffering. This man's selfless story is beautifully told through the words of his kind-hearted student in this tear-jerking book.
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Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, Death of parent
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Terminal illness
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
WOW. If you need a book to get you out of your book slump Tuesdays with Morrie is perfect for you. It's a short novel and it's about a beautiful relationship between a Professor and his Student. Morrie, the Professor, is dying of ALS and Mitch, the Student and the author, writes down all their meaningful conversations during Tuesday visits. The novel was beautiful and it talked about love, marriage, faith, culture, and our relationships with other people. This was one of my favorite passages (p. 157):
"In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?"
His voice dropped to a whisper. "But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well."
Morrie kept reminding Mitch (and us readers) to break from the culture of selfishness and greed, and turn to caring and loving other people. When you're young, it's easy to think that we need to be alone to pursue our career and other dreams. We don't realize that in the future, we'll need someone or our families to care for us. It's also our families who we come to for comfort when things are not going well. Morrie realizes that not every family is a loving family (based from his experience as well), and states that like him, we should strive to love our children and not make them feel the loneliness or the pain from our past families.
The ending of this book will make you cry and wish that you could be able to speak with Morrie as well. Like what Mitch says, our professors touch our lives more often than we realize. I'd recommend this to anyone and I'll re-read this book again in the future.
"In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive, right? And the end of life, when you get like me, you need others to survive, right?"
His voice dropped to a whisper. "But here's the secret: in between, we need others as well."
Morrie kept reminding Mitch (and us readers) to break from the culture of selfishness and greed, and turn to caring and loving other people. When you're young, it's easy to think that we need to be alone to pursue our career and other dreams. We don't realize that in the future, we'll need someone or our families to care for us. It's also our families who we come to for comfort when things are not going well. Morrie realizes that not every family is a loving family (based from his experience as well), and states that like him, we should strive to love our children and not make them feel the loneliness or the pain from our past families.
The ending of this book will make you cry and wish that you could be able to speak with Morrie as well. Like what Mitch says, our professors touch our lives more often than we realize. I'd recommend this to anyone and I'll re-read this book again in the future.
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Graphic: Death