Finished: Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

Yesterday I finished reading Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children, by John Wood (2007: Collins Business) ISBN-13 978-0-061-12108-1.  It was a very enjoyable, moving, and inspiring story of the founding of the Room to Read educational charity. 

I became interested in Room to Read because of the American Express Members Project, which included in the top 25 proposed projects for 2008 "6,000 Girls' Scholarships in the Developing World", which would fund 6,000 long-term scholarships for especially needy girls through Room to Read.  At the Room to Read web site, I downloaded the first chapter, read it, and was hooked on the book; that same Saturday, I found a copy at the Borders Books in Columbia, MD, reserved it, and went and bought in less than 6 hours.  John Wood's story has challenged me to consider how I can make a difference.  (Perhaps a library -- and school -- in South Africa as a memorial to my mother?)