My friend, Kelly, let me borrow this book as part of my self-imposed “I need to read more” summer program. I was in charge of running the family garage sale last Friday. The weather wasn’t the greatest, which I think kept people from coming in the afternoon. I finished The Guersney Literary and Potato Peel Society earlier in the day, so when the customers weren’t coming I began my journey through the pages of Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall & Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent. It is the story of how two men from literally the opposite sides of the track are brought together by God.
When something touches me, I’ve been known to cry. This books fills 234 and 3/4 pages. I cried from page 135 through pretty much the rest of the book. Now don’t let that deter you because you will not be the same after you read this book (and that’s a good thing). I finished the book on Saturday, and since then I find my mind returning to Ron and Denver. Especially Denver, and his life of modern-day slavery and homelessness. Denver didn’t even know school existed for him while he grew up in a life of sharecropping in Louisiana during the 50s (that’s 1950s). The Man, as he called all his masters, made it so he didn’t know it was even a possibility. I have a feeling this probably stills goes on today in parts of our country. And that makes me…well, let’s just say it makes me mad. I wonder if Denver has learned to read and write. If not, it would be an honor to teach him…
Happy reading!
Can I borrow it?? I need a good book to read!