{"id":10692,"date":"2024-01-08T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=10692"},"modified":"2024-01-08T20:15:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:15:14","slug":"a-man-taught-himself-to-complete-reading-100-books-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/08\/a-man-taught-himself-to-complete-reading-100-books-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"A Man Taught himself to Complete reading 100 books in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oliver James understands the power of words. His inability to read and write held him back from success for years.<br \/>\nIn 2020, James decided to take control of his destiny and started to teach himself how to read.<br \/>\nThen, in 2022, he started a TikTok account to document his reading journey. Along the way, James has inspired millions with his honesty and transparency about his success and struggles.<br \/>\nHis videos often feature him reading aloud from the latest book off his list must-read list.<br \/>\nHe reached his 2023 goal of 100 books, covering everything from E.B. White\u2019s \u201cCharlotte\u2019s Web\u201d to his last book of the year, Louis Sachar\u2019s \u201cHoles,\u201d which he completed on New Year\u2019s Eve.<br \/>\nJames shared on his videos that he used audiobooks to follow along to help him with word recognition when he struggled with more challenging books.<br \/>\nLetter by letter, word by word, James\u2019 dedication led him to speak out about literacy\u2019s importance to a broad audience.<br \/>\nThat advocacy led to a podium in Washington, D.C., in October 2023 to read an acceptance speech for the Barbara Bush National Literacy Honors Award.<br \/>\nJames talked about his anxiety leading up to the event with People magazine, mainly about reading his speech from a teleprompter.<br \/>\n\u201cI was nervous,\u201d\u00a0he said. \u201cBut knowing that I was about to do something in front of all those people that I wasn\u2019t very good at was an exciting type of nervous that I\u2019ll never forget.\u201d<br \/>\nThat nervousness was nothing new to James, who bared it all when he revealed his illiteracy to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events Oliver James understands the power of words. His inability to read and write held him back from success for years. In 2020, James decided to take control of his destiny and started to teach himself how to read. Then, in 2022, he started a TikTok account to document his reading journey. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10694,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10692\/revisions\/10694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}