Jenny's review of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
While the main lessons from this book are very interesting--how we learned to read both culturally and biologically, and how reading freed up time to allow us to think deeper thoughts--the book was unnecessarily technical. Much of the material was worthy of skimming only. The author also included far too many "profound quotes" of others at the beginnings of chapters and sections, which quickly got annoying. The last section, on dyslexia, was also interesting, but again, overly detailed.
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