Book Notes

Memoir books

2 books in this category.

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

A neurosurgeon's memoir, written as he was dying of lung cancer, about what makes a life worth living once the future you planned for has been taken away.

8/10

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

Mitch Albom

A memoir about the fourteen Tuesdays Mitch Albom spent with his dying former professor, Morrie Schwartz, who used his final months with ALS to teach one last class on how to live.

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