My Faves for Tuesday, March 25, 2008

This sounds like an interesting book about reading, speculating that the act itself is one of improvisation and that it changes the brain in positive ways.

Quoted: Reading, says Wolf, changed history. More than that, it changes the brain. It creates new pathways in the brain, and, by doing this, makes us think in new ways. When you read, you see letters written on a page, then you recognise them as representations of sounds made by the human voice, then you join the sounds together to make words, then you fit the words together into sentences.