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Interesting and insightful read. It is good to know about change in our reading pattern ( more of surface reading) on digital platforms. Get to know lot of things on deep reading and also how digital books / media affects young minds. As a parent I learnt a lot from this book than as a reader. 4⭐️/5

It was my July #bookspin #nonfiction2022 #iambrain
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4/5 - Informative, reasonable view on trying to find the balance between our digital and analog world, and a whole lot of evidence showing we lose deep reading, and thus contemplation and empathy for others, when we rely on devices for content. Even on the dumbed down Kindle Paperwhite, our brain processes the written word only at a surface level.

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"Human beings were never born to read."

Interesting concept. Looking forward to Wolf defending that theory and diving into how the integration of technology changed how and why we read.

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 70 #bookstoread #tbrpile #bookstagram

Does anyone else struggle to switch from skim reading to deep reading?

https://medium.com/personal-growth/your-brain-on-skim-reading-b0de828769b9

#Literacy #QuotsySept19 @TK-421

This book is an important read if you love books or if you are a parent or work with children. It will absolutely be my aide-mémoire for knowing how to integrate digital reading responsibly and continue to push for critical thinking with all texts as I prepare over the summer for the next school year.

As a very old teacher once said, “Most times, the lowest rungs of a ladder are the best ones for learning to climb. I always hate to ask a child to jump to the top rung without them.”

Maryanne Wolf writes about an evolutionary reflex, the novelty bias, that pulls our attention immediately toward anything new. I think that characterizes my reading choices: I‘m attracted to new ideas, new topics, new ways of looking at art, retellings of traditional tales, debut novels with fresh voices, and unique ways of formatting & expressing our inner lives in print. Above, my January reads.

In a series of letters, reading expert Maryanne Wolf examines the effects of digital technology on the way we think & read. Are our brains changing? The author is an advocate of technology used to promote literacy, but she also advises caution—based on recent observations in the fields of education & neuroscience—regarding the way digital reading affects attention span, intellectual capacity & critical reasoning. Ideas to ponder.

Deep reading is always about connection: connecting what we know to what we read, what we read to what we feel, what we feel to what we think, and how we think to how we live out our lives in a connected world.
(Photo: inside Capilano branch library in Edmonton)

It Is easy to forget that the contemplative dimension that resides within us is not a given and requires attention and time to be sustained. How we reckon with the time we are given—in milliseconds, hours and days—may well be the most important thing any of us chooses in an age of continuous flux.

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
-Toni Morrison

I read both to find fresh reason to love this world and also to leave this world behind. To enter a space where I can glimpse what lies beyond my imagination, outside my knowledge and experience of life and sometimes, like the poet Frederico Garcia Lorca, where I can go very far ‘to give me back my ancient soul of a child.‘

…to get us to think about what we do with our “one wild and precious life.”
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I‘m feeling that happiness that comes from hearing Mary Oliver quoted in my current nonfiction audiobook. 😊

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Meal of Chickpea coconut curry & a little🍷

Loving this read for my dissertation!
#immersion #media

#ReadingResolutions Day 30: My #SeptemberStats is pretty modest at only 33 books read, including the tagged NF title. It provides an incisive look at how people become enamoured with quick fixes, manipulation, outright lies. People are indeed, becoming dumber - mostly brought about by a reading style that is dominated by “TL; DR” (too long, didn‘t read) sensibility. A superficial grazing of information without deep analysis ⬇️

I am deeply enjoying this super dense book about books/reading. Paired with husband‘s deep fried camembert wrapped in prosciutto and peppered with surprise hazelnuts inside.

Interesting read, more so if you have children, but some keen insights to adult deep reading as well. Only touches on reading for pleasure but raised some good questions on the importance of reading to our democratic ideals. Did not convince me to give up reading on my kindle, but I‘m definitely more self aware after reading this.

There is a lot of very good information here.

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No, just no. I wanted to make this work but after a couple of tries, I broke up with this book. The premise is one of interest to me but it literally reads like a DISSERTATION of a neuropsychologist. I wish the author had made the content more accessible to the average layman. 😢😢

This is fine. It‘s better than Wolf‘s previous book, IMO, in how she describes the science and research into “the reading brain.” But I can‘t shake the feeling that a) it‘s a bit Chicken Little/the-sky-is-falling at times, b) there‘s a weirdly elitist bent to certain sections (why choose the deepest Herman Hesse deep cut for a re-reading faux experiment?), and c) if we‘re worried about KIDS not being able to develop “deep reading”...

“The good readers of a society are both its canaries-which detect the presence of danger to its members-and its guardians of our common humanity.”

This book has really hit home. Highly recommend it to parents, educators and concerned citizens:)

“I worry that we are even closer to the stripping away of complex thoughts when they do not fit the memory-enfeebling restriction on the number of characters used to convey them.”

There is so much to absorb in this book. It is an interesting book for us dedicated readers.

#bookmail from yesterday! I‘m always interested in books about reading. Publication date - August 7
*received from publisher in exchange for honest review