ONE THING HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD by Donna Gephart

Nerdy Book Club

Some days I’m a black man marching in the 1960’s in a hostile town in the South.  Other days I’m a boy living on a reservation, trying to get a decent education at the “white” school despite myriad obstacles placed in my path.  Still other days, I’m a girl growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

I’m able to live these different lives because I read.

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.  The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin

Every...