Lenka S. reviewed on 5/17/2020 + 829 more book reviews

The book was interesting. Making books available for school libraries and building schools and computer labs for needy poor kids in the poorest nations of the world. There are some well written stories at the begining about his life and how he got inspired helping the kids. Afterwards it becomes a cross between biography, and dusty fact driven (driven being a key word) manuscript, that almost feels it was written by different person. Though here and there an interesting personal story is inserted, the remainder of the book has a frantic pace of gogogogogogogo get it done. Maybe this is and accurate account of his number/fact driven personality warring with his heart but the result is jarring and despite being well written, it is not an easy read. Unfortunately, in actually makes him look like patting him self on the back, for work well done. Though I do not believe that was his intention. But to give credits where they are due, he does deserve our admiration for his amazing work. But in the end it should be mentioned that there are quite a bit of needy and illiterate children here in USA. I think that maybe mr. Wood should turn his eye more towards USA. And see what can he do to ummmm clean up his own home (country) instead of focusing all his efforts elsewhere. A bit of a balance should be struck...

On final note, I would like to point out there this book was written years ago. Given the terroristic climate of the world, as of today, one must wonder how have these schools and libraries changed?

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