Paperback, 199 pages
English language
Published Oct. 8, 2002 by Broadway Books.
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.
For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.
Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?
Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just …
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it.
For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.
Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger?
Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live.
Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie’s lasting gift with the world. (source)
Bonus points because it was my mom’s before it was mine.
In short, I put off reading this book through the years because of life and for some reason just this morning I decided to read this book. Went to get some coffee in the morning and read the entire thing by afternoon. It touched me in many ways. It will be difficult to summarize but I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever felt love or is looking for love. This book will always hold a special place in my heart because it reminds me what it is to love. I will now pass on that love to the world.
A couple of years ago, I read Mitch Albom's "Have a little faith" and really loved it.
Now, I wanted to find again the inspiration that I had previously gained from reading his work and thought that "Tuesdays with Morrie" was the perfect follow up. I hoped it would stop me from feeling so lost all the time and, gladly, I wasn't disappointed. I think that Morrie Schwartz was such a wise man and he inspired me tremendously.
Everyone who is in a small life crisis and is looking for some guidance should read this book.
If you're a cynic you're not going to like this book but if you are ready to empathize and let your feelings guide you through this book you will not be disappointed.
a feel-good, (touchy-feely) book. But being critcal people, we proceeded to criticise. From there we wandered to how sequestered we have become from death, to how those dying face it, how the survivers deal with it, and what is going to happen when the baby boomers start dying. Evidentially the head librarian kicked us out so he could close up.
My father gave me this book after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He didn't know how else to say he loved me and needed me to reach out to him after we'd spent years mostly estranged… but this gesture meant all of that.
I don't really remember the content of the book itself, but that isn't important.
