25 in 6 (books and beyond)

Book 1: Tuesdays With Morrie Author : Mitch Albom Genre: Memoir Tone: Inspiring Published: 1997 Why I chose this book: I had first come across this book in 2002.All of 26 , and heavily pregnant I neither had the maturity or the motivation to scan through what appeared at that point of time a bland conversation between a Teacher and his Student.  Cut to today, the title gave a sense of Deja Vu and the content promised a pacification. On the New York Best sellers list for 10 years at a stretch, this book had me captured even before I read it. My Take: Tuesdays With Morrie is a memoir written by Mitch about his sociology professor Morrie Schwartz. Mitch reconnects with his professor , whom he holds in high esteem after 20 long years only to find out that Morrie is dying of ALS . He meets his professor every Tuesday without fail and their conversations turn into whimsical teachings by his guru. Every Tuesday is a lesson on life ranging from emotions to relationship and even death. At t...

Let me start with an often used, hackneyed, and cliched quote: "Books are your best friends". Whoever said that, is a man or woman with profound insight and infinite wisdom. Whilst there are a hundred and many blogs on books, my page is merely a hundred and one that, if there is such a term. The idea of the review is not to set a tone or give an elaborate opinion but to simply review it in a more objective and concise manner. Sort of like tiny reads. You quickly glance through it and you quickly decide whether or not you want to read it. More like the description on the back page of a paperback. I wasn't quite sure what I should start with but then I just thought let me go through the top 10 best sellers. Then an idea struck me and I now have a pact that let's try 25 books in 6 months starting this June and let me do it with my fellow book worms. Worms that we are, we intend to crawl through 25 best sellers of the past 20 years or so.