The Choice: Embrace the Possible

This type of book puts you in an interesting pickle. You never want to say "meh" about a book by a Holocaust survivor, because that puts you in a box where you are a total jerk.  Luckily, this book is actually very good.  Phew!  I think "The Choice: Embrace the Possible" by Edith Eva Eger is a fantastic book.  The descriptions of Auschwitz are surreal in their brutality, but it only takes up about a third of the book, then she writes about the rest of her life and making sense of what she went through.  She dedicates herself to service, which is, first and foremost, I would think a great start to dealing with tragedy.  But then she really focuses on three lessons.

1.) Forgiveness of others.
2.) Taking risks.
3.) Forgiveness of self.
4.) Acceptance of suffering and painful emotions instead of stifling them.
5.) Finding joy in the everyday.

These are not in any particular order, just in how they struck me and I remembered them.

This is a book that you have to read slowly.  There are lesson on every page.  So you read a couple of pages, something grabs you and then you put the book facedown on your chest and think about it.  I highly recommend it.