Tuesdays With Morrie / Mitch Albom - 5***** and a ❤

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Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Albom
Audiobook performed by the author.
5***** and a ❤

The subtitle is the perfect synopsis: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson.

Morrie Schwartz had been a professor of sociology at Brandeis University. Mitch Albom had been his student. Despite promises to keep in touch, Mitch found that as his career took off, he had lost contact with Morrie. So he was stunned to see his old professor on Ted Koppel’s program one evening. Morrie was dying of ALS. Mitch hopped on a plane and went to visit his old mentor. It was a Tuesday, and he came back on successive Tuesdays to talk about life, living, dying, families, money, regret, emotion, forgiveness, and love.

Those discussions form the basic life lessons of this book. They are at once simple and profound. Obvious and hard to understand. Easy and difficult to really put into place.

Albom narrates the audio book himself, and he does a fabulous job. I don’t know how he managed to read this without breaking down, because I was certainly in tears just listening. As a bonus, at the end of the book one of the tape recordings Mitch made of his discussions with Morrie is played, and the reader can hear Morrie Schwartz himself imparting his words of wisdom.

This little book packs an emotional wallop.

[Susie]

Such a great book. I had forgotten about it.