I just finished this book and absolutely loved it!!!! This is also my second memoir that I have finished in a row. I realized that I really like depressing memoirs. This book was one of the best I've ever read. After reading this book, I have a new outlook on life. Morrie is incredibly sick and dying very quickly, but he makes the best out of his illness and keeps moving forward and sharing his wisdom. Most people would give up on life once they found out they were going to die and had a specific amount of time left with the people they loved, but not Morrie. He is rapidly losing control over his body, but instead of giving up keeps on going. Mitch Albom reconnects with his beloved professor, Morrie, after sixteen years without seeing him. He was very close with Morrie during college, but afterwards began to only focus on his career and material things and lost touch with Morrie, but after seeing a special on TV about Morrie he finds his old profesor and begins to reconnect with him. Every Tuesday, Mitch flies over to Morrie's home and they talk about a specific topic like family, death and forgiveness. Mitch's values begin to change after he begins to talk with Morrie. As he sees Morrie's body deteriorating , he sees that Morrie's spirit is always there. This was a very touching and inspiring book and I'm very glad I read it!
I started this book a week ago. I had heard from people that it was good and I wanted to read a mystery. Also, I knew it became a successful movie. When I started reading, I realized that it was really hard to get into. A few things happen at the same time and it just switches to random things. For example, they talk about the curator case and Robert Langdon, the curator got killled and Robert Langdon is supposed to help figure it out, and then they switched to these random people. It was really confusing. I decided to abandon it. I also realized how long it was, and I knew that I would not finish it for a while.
I absoulutely love this book! I am incredibly close to finishing it! (I only have 50 pages left) This book is about a family that is living in poverty and they travel around the country to flee people who are after them. These people are not mentioned much but were mentioned a few times in the beginning. It is the story of a girl, Jennette, grwoing in poverty and traveling with her lazy, but artistic mother, her drunk father, her artistic sister, Lori, her tough little brother, Brian, and her cute, perfect little sister, Maureen. They usually have a very unsturdy home and not a lot to eat and not a lot of money. They lived in one nice house, but they decided they didn't like it anymore and left. At this point, they are living in a larger shack with no indoor plumbing and tons of holes in the ceiling. They have had, at several points, nothing to eat and having to look in the garbage at school for food. They struggle to find money too. Their dad usually spends most of their money on beer and cigarettes, while their mom lies around the house or paints. The dad sometimes does "odd jobs" as Jennette calls them, but does not have a steady one. He ruins important things in their lives like burning the Christmas tree and presents and taking all of the money out of the kids money stash. The mom has had jobs as a teacher, but this time just got too lazy to actually do the work. On the other hand, Lori, Brian, and Jennette are trying very hard to get money and are working and trying to make good lives for themselves. This book is a memoir and I have no idea how Jennette and her family survived living like this. I really don't think I would have been able to. It kills me that millions of people live like this now. This book took place in the 1960s and people still like live this. Some of the prices in this book really surprised me like an apartment for $75 a month and that she could get 4 gifts for her family for a dollar. I think that it has the title it has because these kids just want a steady home and the Glass Castle is the house their dad promised to build them, but never did. I love this book and I can't wait to finish it!
