Tuesdays with Morrie

‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ by Mitch Albom.

I read this book a couple of months back. The book was given to me by a friend who insisted I would like this book. And I did like it after reading it.

The author happens to be a student of this professor named Morrie during his college days. Morrie was his favourite teacher. After college he lost touch with his favourite teacher and got busy with his life while Morrie continued in his own track. This happens to be the scenario with everyone – no matter who your favourite teacher is you tend to not keep contact with them once you move one in life; although you do remember them always.

Morrie is diagnosed by a disease which has no cure and he would die in sometime. The disease starts from the leg and moves upwards making the body parts dead as it passes through. Morries knows he is going to die but he still wants to enjoy all he can while he is alive. Morrie decides to meet all his friends and spend every moment enjoying the moments.
Mitch on the other hand is busy in his own world trying to achieve all the success, working at breakneck speed. One day he watches Morrie on TV being interviewed in a famous show and comes to know oh Morrie’s disease. The circumstances in his life gives Mitch a forced break from his work and he decides to visit Morrie. It is the meeting that starts a series of meetings and it is the conversations in these meetings that take the form of the book.

The book is beautifully written touching the fine points of life, stressing on the important things in life and the true meaning of life. A person who is dying is trying to live every moment while people who are alive are not living. It talks about how Morrie saw life and how precious life was. He never let his disease stop him from enjoying life. And the conversations changed the life of Mitch and many others.

The book talks about the world, death, regrets, fear of aging, forgiveness, love and much more. The book teaches some very good life lessons and I would suggest one should read the book once.

"That thing called Love"

"That thing called Love" by Tuhin A Sinha.
I read this book a few weeks back and found it quite good. The name of the book got me attracted towards the book and the summary also suggested towards an interesting story. This led me to buy the book and I don't regret buying and reading it.
The story revolves around a guy who is engaged to a girl but falls in love with another woman who happens to be older than him and married as well. Thery become friends - very close friends - and share their personal lives with each other. The guy doesn't say her that he loves her and everyone feels rather believes that he loves her but the girl doesn't realize. The guys 2 friends warn him against the consequences but he doesn't listen to them. His friends are caught up with their own troubles in their lives. The author captures the events beautifully. Every character and his story is well written although the main characters get the limelight but I really liked the way the other stories are captured. The book is a fast paced book and you feel like reading it on till you finish it.
The book has lots of things to talk upon and has the plot to be transformed into a movie. I will not go into the details of the story now :).
It doesn't look as if it's his first book. I would compliment the author for the way he has handles the complicated scenarios. It was a nice reading indeed.
I would give the book a rating of 8 out of 10.

"Anything for you ma'am"

Recently read a book called "Anyhting for you ma'am" by Tushar Raheja. I found the concept good but didn't find the book that good overall. In parts the book has been written very well but at places it feels as if I should put this down.
The book is about a lover's journey - who happens to be an IITian - to meet his love. The guy is in Delhi and his love is in Chennai. The twists and turns could very well be part of a bollywood movie - a old friend of the guy arranging for him to stay in Chennai happens to have his love in Delhi (call it coincidence); a doctor from whom he needs a false medical certificate turns out to be his father's classmate and the doctor owes something his father (interesting) - There are lots of such coincidences (if you may call it so) which I shouldn't be revealing here, that makes the book qualify to be read.
The book has been written by a first time author is evident at places where in he tries to create suspense but ends up dragging the thing too long to the dismay of the reader. Then he tries to capture the conversations between people to create the same atmosphere in which they took place but fails to do so. He hasn't been able to create the scenario as he was visualizing them and the reader may feel he could have done without this. He has failed often in his attempt to dramatize the thing.
I have been thinking about writing a book for quite some time. And the way I had thought of writing the book resembles the way Tushar has written the book especially the conversation part. But after reading this I feel it is pretty difficult to give the words the same feel as it has while being spoken. I might have to think of putting those in a different way now. (Thanks to "Anything for ...")

If I have to rate this book I would give it 6/10.

PS: I am not a book reviewer and everything written here is my personal opinion. Reading the book or not is individual's decision.