Throwback Thursday: A Family Odyssey

During our preparations, weeks before setting off on our journey across America, my research involved reading John Steinbeck's, Travels With Charley, In Search of America.

Special enough to be the eighth installment in my Top Ten.

"I had not heard the speech of America, smelled the grass and trees and sewage, seen its hills and water, its color and quality of light.  I knew the changes only from books and newspapers.  But more than this, I had not felt the country for twenty-five years." 

John Steinbeck

We had only been away from American for five years, but the desire still bubbled inside. 

The desire to see our country, 

a country we had heard others describe in ways we had never experienced.  

Somehow, they managed to see more of our country than we had.

Meanwhile, Chapter 3 of our odyssey is waiting HERE.

Have a wonderful Thursday.

"I'm one hundred and one years old now. But I still remember. Though that was over ninety years ago, I see it in my mind like I was there today. I can't let loose of my memories, even if I wanted to. Yeah, I've seen it all in these hundred years, the good and the bad. My memory works fine. I can tell you anything you want to know." ~ George Dawson

With five of my top ten books already revealed...

I am quite tardy in moving on,

remember in no particular order...

to number six.

George Dawson, grandson of slaves, learned to read at the age of 98 and along with Richard Glaubman, co-wrote "Life is So Good...

One man's extraordinary journey through the 20th century and how he learned to read at age 98".

The Dallas Morning News quoted Mr. Glaubman as saying that George Dawson "was a man of contradictions...He was extremely poor, yet he lived a rich life."

When I first read this book,

Mr. Dawson was still living in Dallas, Texas 

and was even on the Oprah Show.

Now , in order to read the full review 
you have all kinds of choices...

1)click on Other Worlds to the right...the one with cute little Dixie sitting under a chair

2)click on the tab Other Worlds above 

or...

3) click here 

Happy Thursday and remember...
Life is So Good!

Must I Choose?

Travel to the 'Other Worlds' page in order to choose or share a new book where you can discover new worlds.  After all, that is what a truly good book does, transform you to a new world where you can live amongst the characters you grow to love.