BOOK RELEASE: Tuesdays with Morrie

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I just read Tuesdays with Morrie. I read it because I handed a few Bookcrossing.com starter kits to my friend Steve, along with my first book launch, a collection of Edward Gorey drawings that I was ready to let go.

He promptly registered and handed back Tuesdays with Morrie.

It's a book about real people in which nothing remarkable happens except for ordinary lives and deaths, therefore completely like anything I read voluntarily. It's about living in the face of completely mundane death. It ripped my heart out.

I probably need to read it about every five years just to keep myself in touch with what it woke up inside. I can check out a library copy for that. Someone else needs to read it.

Tuesdays with Morrie is 200 pages and took me about three hours to read, going fairly slowly. It's easy language, because one of the things it's about is not hiding behind language. First comment to this post that asks for this book (please provide your mailing address either there or to gement(at)hotmail(dot)com) gets it mailed to them. You are volunteering to read it, note it on line, and pass it on again.

Update: badconducter's got the book and I've corrected the link above. The rest of you... go find a copy of it anyway, darn it.

Comments

[velvetknife.livejournal.com]

Yoink!

[cow.livejournal.com]

I grew up reading Mitch Albom -- he's a sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press, but he writes about the people and the lives, rather than the sports. Always liked him.

Saw the made-for-TV version of Tuesdays with Morrie, was touched, read the book, was touched even more.

Excellent book. I think I already have my own copy, or at least I once did.