Jason's Reading (books by Maryanne Wolf)

I mostly enjoyed this book. I’m not sure exactly what I had in mind – the subtitle is “The Story and Science of the Reading Brain” – but it felt a bit more academic than I was hoping for. I enjoyed the less technical bits but found the more neuroscience-y parts dull. …

This book was an interesting meta read about reading itself. Wolf makes a good case that the skills required for deep reading are the same skills needed to be an informed citizen who thinks for himself, and that our increasingly digital lifestyle is chipping away at those skills. …