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I literally have nothing to say about that entire book. I couldn’t care less about the characters, plot, anything. Notice how when ppl finish projects really quickly (I.e. benson boone’s 3rd album in 2 weeks, this book in 6 months ) they usually suck. Note to self maybe?!? 2 stars and only bc it was a fast read.

No. I’m so mad and disappointed and frustrated like no. That was so boring. It was a fast read and i stupidly thought it’d get better if I kept reading it, but I should’ve known better bc I was 220 pages in and literally NOTHING had happened, in a murder mystery… ugh such a waste. And I’m so disappointed bc this is the same author that wrote Then She was Gone, which was SO GOOD! Like what was this. UGH! ->

It’s lowkey kinda boring. Like Josie is really weird and obviously crazy. Like taking alix’s stuff and putting it in the back of her underwear drawer WEIRD CRAZY! Like it’s so kinda boring.

This is probably the same or similar warped mindset ppl in abusive or toxic relationships say to themselves. I won’t like it’s hard and I honestly don’t know if I’m willing enough to actually do it. Like stop ruminating. Girl what. I genuinely don’t think that’s mentally possible. Ahhh . And asking for help sounds impossible and is my legit biggest nightmare soo yah that’s my life

Um I stopped reading it just before the 4th Re (relabel, reframe, refocus, and revaluing ) bc I realized a very scary thought that maybe deep down I don’t want to get better bc my depression has always been there for thr past almost 5 years even tho obvi I don’t want it there and it’s familiar so actually taking steps to get better truthfully sounds like something I need but don’t want at all. ->

Chapter on forgiveness. If the whole book was like the last 40 pages it would be 5 stars in a heartbeat but the first 160 were like lessons that were really Christian values already. So I'll probably give it 3.5 stars but i will definitely recommend it and say the ending is incredible bc it just is. Yah the only reason why im rating it lower than it should is bc it was stuff i already knew bc it's in God’s word

It rly did never get resolved fully and every now and then i think about it and how i hated how i said i forgive you but don’t wanna be your friend when that just wasnt the case at all and how idk like he (Morrie) said he also need to forgive ourselves for all the things we didn’t do and should’ve done and that just hit a spot i never thought of before and how just wow. Like dang it got me. It was a rly good->

Loved the ending. And lastly on pg. 166 and that whole chapter on forgiveness it rly got me. Bc i feel like for the most part im pretty forgiving of others and I don’t just let stuff happen without ever talking about it and how honestly I have no respect for ppl who do act like nothing ever happened without talking about it. But it honestly reminded me of Ella Flythe and how even tho we’re “fine” now Ig, ->

Enjoy it bc he appreciates all the little things in life and that kinda reminded me of the movie we watched in Bible this year Soul and how that’s kinda what its all about and how I can turn it into a Christian perspective of how God does everything for His glory and all the small little mundane stuff is still God and Him working through and in it, even if it feels/seems like its not or insignificant. I just rly->

Me so so sad. The ways God has/is using him in my life is so amazing and I thought of him a lot as I was reading this book and yah that quote just really got to me, bc its such a blessing from God teacher and ppl who just truly care about you as a person and not just as a player/student etc. And I also loved when it was talking about Morrie’s perfect day and how it was just a regular average day but he’s able ->

"If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back." And I’m rly gonna hold on to those words and believe them bc I rly hope so. Bc I think all the time about how I hate that after 3 months I’ll NEVER have his class again or be able to talk to him even if I don’t say anything personal bc I’m highly afraid of vulnerability and he literally knows that like it makes->

Had and is having on my life needs to be studied bc it’s slowly broken walls of vulnerability (GRADUALLY) that I couldn’t even think were humanly possible for me. Like it makes me so mad that no matter what I say or do he’ll never fully understand the true impact he’s had on my life and is having. It ALL he’s doing is ordinary kindness. But it means the world. And it just rly got me the quote bc it said ->

"Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back." And that was the closest I was gonna get to tears bc this has LITERALLY been Dr. Evans to me all year long. It was the "saw you as a raw but precious thing" the impact he has ->

That was on pg. 170. Bc like it was just like an aw student becoming the teacher type thing and for me it just shows how powerful an impact can rly be and is on someone. WAIT NOOO! the other thing was impactful but THIS is what made stare at a wall into space for like 2 mins, it was on page 192. Wait i want it to be its own space it’s a lot. The other stuff did hit hard but THIS brought me right back to reality ->

He did too. But I the part that made me just stare into space for a sec and even now was pg 173 “ if we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing. Make peace with living. It’s natural to die.” Like idk it just rly got me. And idk why but when Morrie said to Mitch “After I dead, you’ll talk. And I’ll listen” that rly got me too ->

Wow. I won’t lie the ending rly got to me. Like not tears (I don’t/can’t cry to books) but like I truly felt that in my heart and chest. Like when he said idk it get really got me. Like I just had to sit there and just stare off into space for a sec. ugh I just loved the way he was so comfortable with talking about death bc I am too and i just always feel so out of place whenever I talk about it casually but->

That he has discovered throughout the years. Which if we're being honest it just proves AGAIN how God is real, powerful and alive. Bc this isn't a Christian book but is a bestseller bc of the lessons, which are all stuff God and the Bible teaches. BOOM! Like he kept saying how love is the most important thing, that's in the Bible too: Of all the commandments, love is the greatest (Matt 22:37; 1 Cor. 13:13)

Made to love others and serve them and don’t chase money and that you have to be equally yoked in marriage and that it’s very important (he didn’t say equally yoked but he said each others values MUST match… which is being equally yoked). So it’s like he’s just saying what the Bible has been saying since the beginning of time and then Mitch is kinda making it seem like these are Morrie’s lessons ->

It’s good but like ugh idk I feel like the lessons are kinda obviously. Maybe bc Morrie just won’t say they are rooted in Christian values, maybe bc he didn’t know it or he did but didn’t fully believe in God for that (he accepted Judaism) the most so I think that’s where it’s coming from. But anyways it feels kinda obvious his lessons. Like from a Christian perspective it’s like, well yes. We ARE ->

Speaking up against being raped. Like I am aware that the book was a sad and unfortunate reality of what actually happens in situations where others have the money and power to get away with it all, but like idk. It felt like it had no “it’s ok to speak up” and it is and I feel like that was rly missing but yah. It felt like 13 reasons why the entire time and I didn’t love that bc it’s a book not the show.

So anything. I’m just gonna give it a solid 3. It was literally soo lit but it’s currently 3:34am on a school night nd I stayed up that long not bc I never wanted to put it down but bc If I had to red this book for one more day I think I might’ve screamed. Seriously. It was a good book for winter. I like reading sadish books in the winter. One thing I will say, I feel like it wasn’t rly helping about ppl ->

Ok I didn’t love it and it was so long but the writing did grow on me I will say. It became like melancholy peaceful after like 200 pgs in. Ugh so long. Um literally the ENTIREEEE time I felt like I was reading the book version of 13 reasons why. The entire time. Bryce walker was Kevin. The baseball boys are the hockey guys. Like yah. Idk rape is hard and I never really know how to rate them bc I can’t reste ->

“When I was little, my dad used to hit me if I spilled my milk, Leo. That didn’t teach me not to spill things. It just made me scared of milk.” I don’t get hit or anything but that was deep

Wont lie it has gotten better but like idk. I kinda like it but dont love it at all. I think the best it’ll get is a 3.5 max.

Talking about rape: "Her parents couldn't imagine that this could happen, but Maya simply hadn't expected it to happen to her." that's reality right there. Bc yah thank God I haven't been raped and can't relate and I truly pray I never do, but this is reality. We all knows this happens and SO MUCH more than it should (which should be never), but like other things, we just expect It’d never happen to us personally