Wednesday, September 21, 2011

53/64: Tuesdays with Morrie

53/64: Tuesdays with Morrie by Albom, 4.5/5 Stars
Entertained Me: High / Made Me Think: High

I picked up this book when I left my aunt's house earlier in the summer. She said to me, "Take as many of those books as you want. They're all going to Goodwill!" I picked up two books; this is one of them. I'd been carrying it around for a month, maybe a little longer, but finally cracked it open on a flight from New York to Dallas. About halfway through the book, a boarding pass stub fell out of it... for my recently departed uncle. Jim has made his presence known since he left us, several times when I was still in his house and a couple of times in my own house. I welcome his presence, Jim was a good man. Given the content of the book, it was especially moving to know that he was the last one who read it, and read it on a flight back to his home. And, although, I wasn't headed toward my own home, his memory made me feel at home... and maybe, an airplane really is a second home for my nomadic soul.

A few of my favorite excerpts from the book:
“We're too involved in materialistic things and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.”

“Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until 65.”

“As long as we can love each other, and remember the love we had, we can die without every really going away. All the love you created is still there. You live on--in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here. Death ends life, not a relationship.”
Book #36 = The Dead Town by Koontz, 2.5/5 Stars
Book #35 = Lost Souls by Koontz, 3/5 Stars
Book #34 = Dead and Alive by Koontz, 2/5 Stars
Book #33 = City of Night by Koontz, 3/5 Stars
Book #30 = The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls, 3.5/5 Stars
Book #29 = The Fisher King by LaGravenese, 2.5/5 Stars
Book #28 = The Passage by Justin Cronin, 2/5 Stars
Book #27 = I Hope They Have Beer in Hell by Tucker Max, 0/5 Stars
Book #26 = Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney, 3/5 Stars
Book #25 = Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by Rowling, 3/5 Stars
Book #24 = Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince by Rowling, 3/5 Stars
Book #23 = Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by Rowling, 4/5 Stars
Book #22 = Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by Rowling, 2/5 Stars
Book #21 = Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by Rowling, 3/5 Stars
Book #20 = Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by Rowling, 3/5 Stars
Book #19 = Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Rowling, 3/5 Stars
Book #18 = For an Architecture of Reality by Michael Benedikt, 4/5 Stars
Book #17 = The Guinea Pig Diaries by A.J. Jacobs, 2.5/5 Stars
Book #16 = Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis, 3/5 Stars
Book #15 = Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, 5/5 Stars
Book #14 = This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper, 4/5 Stars
Book #13 = After Dark by Haruki Murakami, 1.5/5 Stars
Book #12 = Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster, 3.5/5 Stars
Book #11 = Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster, 1/5 Stars
Book #10 = American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, 3/5 Stars
Book #09 = Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen, 4.5/5 Stars
Book #08 = The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson, 3/5 Stars
Book #07 = The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson, 5/5 Stars
Book #06 = What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Murakami, 4/5 Stars
Book #05 = Existentialism by Steven Earnshaw, 1/5 Stars
Book #04 = The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav, 1/5 Stars
Book #03 = The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, 5/5 Stars
Book #02 = The Zen of Social Media Marketing by Shama Kabani, 2/5 Stars
Book #01 = Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky, 3/5 Stars


See 2010's list of 40 books.
See 2009's list of 53 books.
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