"Books are my refuge, but I had to overcome dyslexia to write the stories I was bursting to tell." — Natasha Solomons Natasha is a lifelong storyteller, but it took a lot of persistence and resilience to get those stories out. As a child, she listened to...
“When I was 6 and starting to pick books for myself, that’s when I found out I wasn’t a great reader and that it had a name…the words got jumbled up…dyslexia! I didn’t like reading, and then I was introduced to Encyclopedia Brown, my first boy friend…” – Octavia Spencer, Academy Award winning actress. Octavia Spencer struggled with reading, having to read lines over and over again to get the meaning, but a teacher figured out that mystery stories might be a good way to hook Octavia on a book. “I’m reading today because of Encyclopedia Brown.” Since winning an Academy Award for her performance in “The Help”, Octavia has been writing Ninja Detective stories for children with strong female characters. “I wanted to write about […]
“…He explained that there is a Tibetan saying that it is the painful experiences that shine the light on the nature of happiness… The Archbishop added that that “nothing beautiful comes without some suffering,” and he mentioned how our muscles need resistance to grow. So it seems our spirit requires the same. The Archbishop paraphrased what the Dalai Lama had said, “His serenity comes not despite his adversity but because of it.” Douglas Abrams has an instant New York Times Bestselling book called The Book of Joy. Once an editor at Harper Collins, he currently owns his own book and is leads a media agency called Idea Architects. He is also dyslexic. (Read Lessons I learned from Richard Branson, the Dalai Lama, and Desmond Tutu here) Abrams […]
