[Read Your Bookshelf] Book Review: Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by Mitch Albom
Three Stars
Book 15 of 2025
Genre: Memoir, Autobiography
Format: Audiobook
Blurb
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.
Review
Something interesting about listening to the audiobook is that it was read by Albom himself, and then, he replayed some of the conversation with Morrie at the end of the recording. I think that it really enhanced the story for me.
Mostly the book just made me sad, and not in the obvious “we know he’s going to die” way, but in the “he’s going to die and still not have it all right” kind of way. The whole premise of this book is to not take life for granted and to “live it the right way” by slowing down and actually being present with those you love. And while I agree with those things, we don’t do it because it makes us feel more connected to each other (although that’s true), we live intentionally because that’s how Christ lived his life and we’re supposed to mirror that. Apart from Christ, all is vanity.
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