Life is So Good

I am currently reading, Life is So Good.  I found out about this book from one of Oprah's last shows about some of the most amazing people she has met.  I don't think I saw the full story on this man but I remembered I really wanted to know his story.  This book is about a man named George Dawson who was 98 years old when he learned how to read. 

I have frequently mentioned how I'm a slower reader and its sometimes frustrating.  However, I could not imagine going almost a hundred years not knowing how to read in a world full of words.  He was born in 1898 and went through basically all of the 20th century not reading.  Its a foreign concept to me to see words and not know what they are.  I get stumped on words but I do know the basics of sounding things out and knowing that certain placements of vowels generally tell you what sound it should make and the such.  To not know how to read and still be able to get through life and be able to say it was good is something amazing to read.

I'm almost finished with this book and I am inspired.  I'm encouraged to read more, but I am also encouraged to take in life and see it as good.  Even when things around me are bad life is still good because God has blessed me with so many wonderful gifts. 

I have 40 pages left and then I'll be moving on to The Hunger Games.  I'm only reading that one because the movie is coming out and some students may go on a field trip to see the movie after they finish the book.  I'll be back with an update on Hunger Games in a bit.  Happy New Year folks...get to reading :).