Up From Slavery – Part 2
by marikoy on September 27th, 2011
filed under Political Science, Service, Thoughts, books
(Once again, a re-post from my participation in The Novel Challenge)
Have you ever read a book so good that you don’t want to rush through it but want to savor each sentence and memorize several favorite statements from it?
That’s what’s happening with Up From Slavery. I’ve been reading it on the bus, on the train, at home and at work. Booker T. Washington certainly lived his life to the fullest. I suppose anyone reading his autobiography would be ashamed falling short of his standards.
Up From Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
Dignity of labor is so often emphasized. Booker was a man who knew how to work… really knew how to work. In fact, it was his ability to really work that helped transform him from an illiterate ex-slave, to one of the most respected educators of his time.
He also mentioned that people study too much books, but it would be a lot helpful if instead of doing so, they study people and things. Well, Mr. Washington, I suppose you’ll be glad to know I’m studying the life of a great man like you, than some silly romantic novel.
Oh, I’m so aching to head to the library and borrow more interesting books after this, even though there’s Agatha Christie’s “Murder On The Orient Express” waiting on the dresser for me to pick up and begin reading one of these days.
Murder On The Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
^^sigh.. wish i have time to read just like you, girl! left you some love..
by the way, do you mind checking out in The Indecisive Young Man?