I read the following quote in a Writer’s Digest interview with Mitch Albom, and I felt really moved by what he said about the process of writing his first novel. As someone who also transitioned during NaNo from mainly nonfiction writing to a full length fiction piece, I was similarly transformed by the process.

“Writing a novel for the first time was the biggest challenge. Until The Five People You Meet in Heaven, I had always dealt with the truth and the facts. As a result I’d been both limited by it and able to relax in it. When you’re writing a nonfiction story about somebody and he had two sisters and no brother, that’s the story. You never have to consider, What if he had two brothers? What if he had a handicapped brother? What if he had a brother who used to beat him up? All those possibilities start to haunt you when you write a novel. That really threw me.”

I was going to do this as a book review…but it’s so much more than that. READ THIS BOOK!!! have a little faith by Mitch Albom is absolutely wonderful; and so, so thought-provoking. I’ve never read anything by Albom before, but you can bet your sweet a$$ that I’ll be picking up his other books soon (like, Tuesdays with Morrie).  I LOVED his writing style!

First of all, I think I would have really liked the Rabbi (The Reb). And it doesn’t matter that he’s Jewish and I’m Methodist. That was his point – everyone needs something to believe in … who am I to judge if who (or what) they believe in is right or wrong? As The Reb states, I’m pretty sure that almost all religions have something somewhere along the lines of “Love thy neighbor” … it shouldn’t matter if that neighbor has a different religion than I do.

There were two spots in the book that made me sit up and take notice (and no, these shouldn’t be too much in the way of spoilers…)

The first is when The Reb says “It’s far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think nobody’s out there.” WOW. I’d never really thought about that before, but he’s spot on! I can’t even imagine not talking (in my head) to God at times…and who else can you ‘blame’ when bad things happen – like if a child passes away (which is the context of this quote)?

The second is actually a story about The Reb’s wife. From the book:

They truly were a team. From the pulpit, the Reb might zing her with, “Excuse me, young lady, could you tell us your name?” She would get him back by telling people, “I’ve had thirty wonderful years with my husband, and I’ll never forget the day we were married, November 3, 1944.”

“Wait . . .,” someone would say, doing the math, “that’s way more than thirty years ago.”

“Right,” she would say. “On Monday you get twenty great minutes, on Tuesday you get a great hour. You put it all together, you get thirty great years.”

I think that’s just wonderful … and a great reminder that life – including marriage – is not all sunshine and roses. Nor is it supposed to be! You need a little rain to achieve rainbows.

I really wish all religious leaders – or even all people! – could be as accepting as The Reb. We’d have Holiday parties that include all aspects rather than ones that strip so much away there’s no meaning left for anyone. We’d have no anger or awkwardness if someone happens to say “Merry Christmas” to a non-christian. They could perhaps simply say “Happy Hanuka” back if they’re Jewish, and both people could just smile and feel that warm, tingly feeling when you wish someone a happy day. (By the way, can someone tell me why it’s not right to say “God bless you” to a Jewish person?) And why is it “Our God, Your God” ?  …what if it’s all the same being – just called a different name by the different world-wide religions?  …in the US alone there are 4 or 5 different terms for a big sandwich (Sub, Grinder, Hero, etc.) …why is having a different name for your spiritual being so different than that? (Did I really just compare God to a sandwich?? Hm.) ANYWAY…I’m by no means a religious scholar, there could be many reasons why it’s way different. I’m just saying – what if it IS the same being (or beings in some cultures) and there’s all this discomfort for absolutely no reason.

Anyway. Read the book. I really, really enjoyed it. And it’s a very fast read!

I did not receive this book from anyone – it’s simply one I read for my book club.

Tuesdays with morie by Mitch Albom

Tuesdays with morie, is Mitch’s first book i read. It’s awesome, motivational and helping when one is in distress. I hope, it will help people understand life, the same way it helped me. Thanks Mitch.

The five people you meet in Heaven

Very touching book by Mitch Albom, full of life’s instruction. If you haven’t read it yet, please find yourself a copy. For ref

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_People_You_Meet_in_Heaven

What would you do if someone you’ve looked up to all your life asked if you would do their eulogy for them?

Mitch Albom’s childhood rabbi makes this request of him. He asks that, when the time comes, that Mitch perform his eulogy for him. For Mitch this is a daunting task.

Throughout the novel Albom recounts the interviews that he conducted with his rabbi in order to get to know him outside of his capacity as an acting rabbi. His reasoning was that he didn’t know his rabbi as a man, and therefore didn’t feel that he could do him justice in a eulogy.

Also recounted in the novel, is a relationship that Mitch begins to create with a pastor of an inner-city church in Detroit.

The pastor was a former drug-addict and dealer, who spent time in jail for a crime that he did not commit. He had a tough past, and yet out of that past he was able to create a future in which he dedicated himself to helping others.

“Have A Little Faith” by Mitch Albom is about the relationships that Mitch builds with his childhood rabbi and the pastor from Detroit. He looks at the ways that not only they have managed to use their lives to help those in their congregations, but also to shape his own faith.

Prior to reading have a little faith I wouldn’t necessarily consider myself a fan of Mitch Albom’s work. That said, I LOVE his newest release.

From a place of inner humility that’s captivating, Albom writes beautifully about the compelling faith journeys of two men: Albom’s childhood rabbi, Albert Lewis and a Detroit pastor, Henry Covington.

Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.

In this true story, as events unfold and friendships deepen, Albom transparently shares his troubling encounters with his personal prejudices, his apathy toward God and his own journey of losing and finding faith once again.

have a little faith is thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring. Not only did I develop a genuine fondness for the three main characters, their example challenges me to take an honest look at the prejudices I hold and to carry a more humble posture toward people whose beliefs are different than mine.

Note: Pastor Henry Covington is a dear friend of Grace and especially of Anne and the late Al Kuhnle. He oversees I Am My Brothers Keeper a ministry to the homeless in the city of Detroit.

Great read. Great gift for someone close to you who is cynical about God.

Call us old-fashioned, but at Chapter Two we have a fondness for the printed word. And when a book excites us, we tell people about it. In coming blogs look for our book recommendations on a wide range of subjects: aging, marketing, neuroscience, branding, behavioral economics, and more. We hope you’ll share your comments and pass along recommendations of your own. Read and enjoy.

“The Mature Mind,” by Gene D. Cohen (2005)
This book reverses, and sets right, the notion that old age equals cognitive degeneration. The most remarkable nugget is that older people’s brains create new neurons every time they form a new neural network. In this small treasure, Cohen easily refutes several thousand years of thinking.

“The View From 80,” by Malcolm Cowley (1976)
This short book started as a Life magazine article and is one of the first to describe what it means to be in “the country of age.” “Nobody,” Cowley correctly states, “knows the country until he has lived in it.”

“The Ageless Spirit,” edited by Connie Goldman (1992)
This book is a series of interviews with some well-spoken elders (from Steve Allen to Stanley Kunitz), who do a very good job of explaining the transcendent feelings of old age. Connie Goldman, longtime NPR commentator and a keen listener, does the interviews.

“How We Die,” by Sherwin B. Nuland (1993)
This is a beautiful book about perspective, what your perspective is based on, and how it is changed by life and experience. In this case, a dying brother.

“When I Am An Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple,” by Jenny Joseph (1997)
What was once a shout of defiance, this short poem (voted England’s favorite poem) has become a statement of how life should be lived when you’re older. This poem gave life to that wonderful group of older women known as “The Red Hat Ladies.”

“Tuesdays With Morrie,” by Mitch Albom (2002)
An aging teacher and a young sportswriter get together every Tuesday to create a thoroughly ageless conversation. Their differences disappear quickly, and their common values become a bridge between two generations.

“King Lear,” by William Shakespeare
A brilliantly understated contrast between young, (“who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out”) and old (taking upon “the mastery of things”). We’ve all been Cordelia and some day, hopefully, we all will be Lear.

“Old Age,” by Helen M. Luke (1987)
Some people grow into old age and some people just fall into it. This elegant little book is for people who like to give the subject a lot of thought (from Shakespeare to Jung).

“The Spectator Bird,” by Wallace Stegner (1976)
What does it mean to be in your sixties? What does it mean to be the outsider? To feel your self-esteem diminishing? To know that society has the “drilling capacity” to look straight at you and never see you? Meet Joe Allston, a retired literary agent who is dragged from his perch as a spectator bird and tries to create a sense of belonging for himself.

“How Starbucks Saved My Life,” by Michael Gates Gill (2007)
A Madison Avenue executive gets booted off the avenue just as he is entering the second half of life. His life changes, his work changes, his values change — and he grows into the kind of man that gives old age a good name. Lovely book.

Mitch Albom - Tuesday with Morrie

Wednesday morning when I was lying on the bed to get rest from working hard at tuesday last night. A deliveryman come to my home knocking at the door. He came from the TIKI delivery service then given me a one small package.

The package has blue color cover with many stars picture. I pick up the package and then read carefully, who name and address receive and who is send it. A thick word has writen someone name, but the address is absolutely right my home addresses.

To assure who are send me this gift package. I reverse it to see the back cover, “this is from Bandung”, I said to myself. Wow.. a gift from Bundo. Oh my God.. it is amazing. A book that never I think can buy it.

The book by Mitch Albom, who told me about “The meaning of Life” where the author tells of the respect for the teacher Morrie Schwartz. The lecturers are very understanding in dealing with the world of young people and helps passionate best way to see the world as a very beautiful place .

After signing the delivery receipt, I immediately contact to Bandung to say thank you, even though the sender’s name written in Bundo from Bukittinggi, unfortunately I did not have her phone number.

I double check the delivery receipt is generally well written address and telephone number, and bingo..! Although a faint copy of the writing address and phone number but quite obvious when viewed using a magnifying glass.

Immediately I called the number and the little girl’s voice answered the phone. I guess, this must sound of Andara and then I asked to speak to his mother “Mamaw Dindut“. Sure enough, Bandung dialect sounded familiar in my ear and after saying hello and thank you for that shipment of Bandung package has been received well.

 To this day the book is still wrapped in plastic wrap, I do not intend to read it before I finish this article as a reward and gratitude for Bundo who have graciously gave me a “surprise”.

In this article, once again I deliver to “Thank You” to infinity, hopefully many benefits that I can absorb, and can I practice in my life.

Thank you Bundo, KD,  Mamaw Dindut and the twin Andara n Andari.. Great thank you and I love you all. Only Allah S.W.T, can repay all your kindness.

Igår kväll var jag på ett makalöst bra föredrag. Det var Mitch Albom, författaren till bland annat Tisdagarna med Morrie, som talade om sin nya bok, Have A Little Faith. Lollos skola ordnade en utflykt till detta evenemang och jag följde med som en av cirka 20 föräldrar som var “chaperons” (det var runt 130 ungdomar!).

Det märks att Albom också är en av USA:s bästa TV- och radiojournalister. Utan manus pratade han i säkert 1 1/2 timme inför en helt fängslad publik. Om man ska beskriva vad han talade om låter det banalt, fast föredraget var verkligen allt annat än banalt. Boken handlar om hans möte med två människor som helt förändrat hans liv, en rabbin och en präst. Rabbinen bad honom att skriva hans “eulogy” (ungefär hyllningstal som man håller när någon har dött). Men det tog åtta år innan rabbinen faktiskt dog och under tiden fick Albom lära känna en helt fantastisk personlighet.

Den andra personen var en person med en helkriminell missbrukarbakgrund, som blivit präst och vigt sitt liv åt att hjälpa hemlösa. När Alboms misstänksamhet lagt sig (“hallå, finns det inte någon slags miniminivå på godhet som man måste uppnå för att få bli präst?”) insåg han att han även hade massor att lära av denna människa. Ett av budskapen var väl att alla som tror att det finns något större än oss själva samt att vi inte kan förklara precis allt med vetenskap, tror egentligen på samma sak. Därför är det rätt onödigt att tjafsa om detaljer, eftersom vi ändå inte har något facit på vad som är sant.

Synd att jag redan håller på med en bok och har flera som jag bara läst halva för att de var för tråkiga för att avsluta. Jag får lite dåligt samvete om jag lägger ytterligare en bok åt sidan för att kasta mig över denna. Men så blir det nog!

I övrigt kan jag säga att det har varit ännu en fantastisk och solig dag idag med mer vår- än novemberkänsla. Efter att ha suttit inne och jobbat på förmiddagen, blev jag bjuden på lunch av två av mina körkompisar nere på stan. Det var väldigt trevligt! Inga foton blev det, så i stället kommer foton från den likaledes soliga förra helgen.

Och grillmästaren som laddar upp inför storverk:

The secret of happiness.

Be satisfied. Be grateful. For what you have. For the love you receive. And for what God has given you.

Posted by Libi Adler

Last week, I had the pleasure of hearing Mitch Albom speak at the 92nd Street Y as part of their lecture series. To a packed crowd of people, and over 23 Satellite locations around the country who sent in questions, Albom spoke about his latest book Have a Little Faith.

This book details what happens when Albom receives an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom’s old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy. So begins an eight-year journey of learning and bonding with the Rabbi. At the same time Albom meets another man, a pastor and reformed drug dealer and convict–who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. Through these two men, he learns the importance of faith in one’s life.

The lecture was very well presented, and as Albom himself said, he didn’t use any note cards to speak from. The audience could tell that he knew this subject well, and that the people he spoke about, the main characters in the book, really meant a lot to him and were big parts of his life. He was charismatic and very funny. Even though I had already read the book, I enjoyed hearing the stories from the mouth of the author, seeing his spin on it, and feeling what really affected him throughout his journey.

Definitely check out the book. Ten percent of the profits from this book will go to charity, including The Hole In The Roof Foundation, which helps refurbish places of worship that aid the homeless.

For a review and interview with Mitch Albom, check out the latest issue of Jewish Book World coming soon!

For more events and lectures at the 92nd St. Y click here.

Having enjoyed his previous works, including the other non fiction book he did earlier, Tuesdays With Morrie, I had to pick this one up as well as did not regret it – though there were bits of hesitations at the beginning because of the theme. It was not a disappointment at all and it was not just because of the wonderful words written in there, but the lessons that he had learned himself through the journey.

I don’t want to spoil it for those who have not read it so this will be a short entry but if you like to read inspirational books, this is for you – and it’s true too so there’s some hope for this world after all. Just continue to have some faith!

If you want to help in the effort mentioned in the book, please go here: http://saydetroit.org/saydetroitorg/aholeintheroof/

Title: Lord of the Flies

Author: William Golding

This is featured in the Lost (TV series), I’m currently reading it. This book is one of the books and things I asked to buy it for me, when my parents are having their vacation/trip for one/1 month in the US. I’m currently in Chapter 3/Three, Huts on the Beach. My parents bought and brought from Barnes & Noble, a popular bookstore in America.

Sorry guys, I’ll not give spoilers. But on the positive side, I try to give my revie on the aforementioned book.

Title: The Zahir

Author: Paulo Coelho

I currently reading this book, before I read Lord of the Flies. I bought it from National Book Store in Glorietta, Makati CIty, although most Paulo Coelho books are available in most bookstores nationwide.

Again:

Sorry guys, I’ll not give spoilers. But on the positive side, I try to give my revie on the aforementioned book.

Title: Tuesdays with Morrie

Author: Mitch Albom

Both Mitch Albom, and one/1 of his books are featured in Powerbooks’ Power Read. And also, he has a new book, on which I forgot the title. My dad’s sister lent it to me, when he’s going to Manila from Samar.

The author of Tuesdays with Morrie says he has learned that he is “neither smarter nor better” than other people

Have a Little Faith: A True Story. By Mitch Albom. Hyperion, 254 pp., $23.99.

By Janice Harayda

More than two decades ago, the Unitarian minister Robert Fulghum achieved bestsellerdom with All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, a small book that offered twee advice such as, “Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you” and “Flush.” For Mitch Albom the font of wisdom appears to have materialized in what is euphemistically called “midlife.”

In his bestselling Tuesdays With Morrie and the new Have a Little Faith, Albom assumes the posture of an innocent who became a man of the world without having learned the basic lessons that Fulghum seems to have picked up between games of dodgeball. He is not, it appears, a quick study.

Albom said in Tuesdays With Morrie that during his talks with a dying former professor, he learned that “love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.” He writes in his new book that he has learned fresh lessons — about what he calls “faith” — from Albert Lewis, the New Jersey rabbi who presided over his bar mitzvah in 1971, and a pastor to the homeless in Detroit. Lewis told Albom that whenever he looked at a picture of the family he loves, he thought, “This is your immortality.” But if love keeps you alive – at least in others’ hearts – isn’t that what Albom learned from Morrie Schwartz?

No discovery seems too basic for Albom not to cast as a revelation as he and Lewis talk about cosmic and earthly questions: What makes people happy? Why does it mean to be good? How can you cope with tragedy? Albom is amazed when Lewis asks a Hindu health aide about her belief in reincarnation. “How can you – a cleric – be so open-minded?” he asks, as though shocked that the rabbi isn’t a bigot. The news that his old synagogue has extensive files on its history seems to fill him with wonder. “I didn’t know there were files,” he tells the woman who informed him of it. Imagine: A synagogue that keeps good records!

Under the rubric of “faith” Albom writes about religion in such a generalized feel-good way that you’re not sure how his view differs from the God-is-love school of theology or even New Age psychobabble. You wonder if he knows. Albom says he wrote Have a Little Faith “in the hope that all faiths can find something universal in the story,” and it’s full of pseudoprofundities such as, “we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.” But the view of “immortality” that he seems to advocate – that you find your afterlife in the memories of others – is far more Jewish than Christian (not to mention, Hindu, Buddhist, or Muslim). Certainly few Christians would disagree that people “live on” in others’ minds. But Christian theology holds that things like “comfort, love and a peaceful heart” are not the ultimate aim. They are the byproducts of a larger goal, which is salvation through Christ.

Albom tries to keep the book from tilting toward his religion by interweaving chapters about his old rabbi with sections on Henry Covington, an ex-drug dealer who began a ministry to the homeless after a spiritual plea bargain: One night when he thought killers were trailing him, he decided that if he survived, he would devote his life to Jesus. But in these sections Albom keeps his distance from theology and focuses on matters such as whether the pastor’s church can keep the lights on, so the spiritual heart of the story lies in Lewis, who set the book in motion by asking his former congregant to give his eulogy.

Like Albom’s recent novel For One More Day, his new book is written at third-grade reading level, according to readability statistics that are part of the spell-checker on Microsoft Word.* Have a Little Faith is more interesting than that homespun parable in because Lewis is a bit of card – he kept a mock parking sign in his office that said, YOU TAKA MY SPACE / I BREAKA YOUR FACE — and the book has excerpts from his sermons. It also includes the fine eulogy Albom eventually gave for Lewis that may inspire you if you have to give a similar talk. Otherwise, you are well-advised keep in mind something Albom says he learned while writing this book: He is “neither smarter nor better” than others, just luckier.

Best line: The first line of the Twenty-third Psalm, quoted by Lewis in a sermon: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”

Worst line: No. 1: “January arrived and the calendar changed. It was 2008. Before the year was done, there would be a new U.S. President, an economic earthquake, a sinkhole of confidence, and tens of millions unemployed or without homes. Storm clouds were gathering.” Yes, when January arrives, the calendar usually does change. No. 2: “What do you do when you lose a loved one too quickly? When you have no time to prepare before, suddenly, that soul is gone?
“Ironically, the man who could best answer that question was sitting in front of me.” This is a misuse of “ironically.” Nothing “ironic” is happening here.

About the reading level of this book: To figure the reading level of Have a Little Faith, I entered into a computer the full text of pages 24–25, 124–125, 224–225 and pages 164–165, then ran the spell-checker on Microsoft Word, which shows you the Flesch-Kincaid reading level at the bottom of the stats window. The reading levels for the pages averaged Grade 3. 7 and ranged from a low of Grade 2.8 to a high of Grade 6.5. The passages entered include only words written by Albom, none by Lewis. A comparison of Albom’s level and that of other authors appears here.

Published: September 2009

You can also follow Jan Harayda on Twitter at www.twitter.com/janiceharayda.

(c) 2009 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.

I’m reading Mitch Albom’s Have a Little Faith and trying to figure out what to say about lines like: “January arrived and the calendar changed.” “Yes, Mitch, that’s what usually happens in January — the calendar changes”?

A short rain delay for my post on Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom’s memoir of his encounters with his childhood rabbi in New Jersey and a pastor he met as an adult in Detroit: The review scheduled to appear this week will be posted next week.

“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. ”

Said the rabbi in Have a Little Faith.

do I agree? For now no. But let’s keep reading. Maybe I need to have a little more faith.

The Blog has gotten too morose.

Hannah took this photo of Tony at Leon Sinks.

Healthcare nightmares. Corporate pillaging. Mitch Albom.

Need to lighten things up. A Tony story is always good.

Tony said “A girl was hitting on me at school today.”

“Wow,” I said. “Middle school girls sure have gotten bold. What did she say?”

“I kept making her laugh and she kept saying ‘Stop it! Stop it!’ and hitting me.”

My funny boy.

Mitch Albom gets religion in Have a Little Faith, a memoir of his encounters with his childhood rabbi in New Jersey and a pastor he met as an adult in Detroit. Albom was a finalist in the annual Delete Key Awards competition for bad writing in books for his novel For One More Day, written at a third-grade reading level according to the readability statistics that come with the spell-checker on Microsoft Word. Is his new book better? A review of Have a Little Faith will appear this week on One-Minute Book Reviews. You can also follow Jan Harayda on Twitter www.twitter.com/janiceharayda.

“My next guest is a writer.”

“A what?”

“A writer! He’s like a blogger, but clever.”

—Craig Ferguson, late night show host, referring to Mitch Albom

I read Mitch Albom’s “have a little faith: a true story” last week on some planes and found it a simple though enjoyable read. Honestly, I was a little skeptical before beginning. I received an advance copy to review here, and it’s not my go-to genre — sort of “religious inspirational.” All things considered, however, the book was plenty fine.

The story is in jumpcut memoir style, flipping back and forth between the author’s reflections on his own faith, his renewed relationship with his rabbi from back home, and interactions with a former drug addict pastor/homeless shelter director. To say it’s in an informal style is an understatement (this coming from a very informal writer myself).  Overall, I mostly appreciated the conversational snippet sort of style.

In terms of a book on faith, it’s hard to knock because this is Albom’s personal story. I mean, I don’t want to crack on a guy’s faith that he seems to really be coming to understand in greater ways. That said, at times I questioned if his recollections of his rabbi’s wisdom were just too stereotypical, too sentimentalized. In fact, “sentimental” is probably the ultimate descriptor of this quick read.

If your faith is in a dry place and needs a pick-me-up, if you want a book on the mushy side, then pick up a copy of “have a little faith.” It won’t rock your world, but it might keep you going. And sometimes that enough.

Waterstones Synopsis:

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, and 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 20 years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying of ALS – or motor neurone disease – Morrie visited 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. This is a chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie’s lasting gift with the world.

This is an extraordinary book. Albom actually refers to it as a thesis. In this book he records conversations he has with an old university tutor who is dying. These conversations consist of Morrie sharing his wisdom about life with Mitch. He has a wonderful insight into life, especially in regards to happiness and death. It is an enlightening book and an enjoyable book.

Albom is a wonderful writer. Even though this is a recollection of conversations Morrie and Mitch had, this is written as a story, and you forget that it is Albom’s memories, and a piece of work that Morrie wanted written – he even gave Albom the title.

I really enjoyed this book. It was very descriptive, and I found it heartbreaking to read about how Morrie was deteriorating and his death. This was such a good read. It was easy to read insightful. I felt I got a lot out of this book.

8/10