This is Your Brain Reading

Proust and the Squid doesn't sound like it's going to be about reading and brain research but Maryanne Wolf's book is just that. It is a fascinating look at the history of reading--the development of written language, I should say; how we learn to read; what happens when the brain can't learn to read and what can be done about it. Does this sound dry? It isn't. I read it in only a couple of days and it's very rare for me to read nonfiction that fast. Did you know that Socrates thought that written language was a mistake? That it would interfere with our ability to truly understand a subject and make us all lazy learners. Did you know that when you first read a word your brain instantly thinks of all the meanings of that word before it picks the one that makes sense in context? And that preschoolers who are exposed systematically to rhyme and rhythm find it easier to learn to read? This is a book for anyone passionate about reading, how our brains work and the teaching of reading.
It made me think of:
Steven Pinkner's work