📚 Lessons From Authors, 3 Books About Books, and more.

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📚 Book Summary:

Last week I shared 3 books about writing.

This week I’m sharing 3 books about reading that I’ve enjoyed recently.

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1) “Proust and the Squid” by Maryanne Wolf

Have you ever wondered how people learned to read or write?

In this book, neuropsychologist Maryanne Wolf explains the science of how humans became readers, how children learn to read today, the science behind dyslexia, and more.

If you’re interested in neuroscience, linguistic history, or the science of reading, this book is for you.

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2) “A History of Reading” by Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel takes you on a journey through the history of reading. How it started, dating back 6,000 years to Egyptian hieroglyphics, to the Gutenberg press, and all the way to how people read books today.

One fun fact from the book: Reading in silence didn’t become the norm until the Medieval ages–around the 12th century. Before then, people read books out loud. That’s because books were rare and few knew how to read. So it was more efficient for one person to learn how to read and read the book out loud while everyone else listened.

If you’re interested in the history of reading–how books were created, popularized, and how they changed civilization–then this book is for you.

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3) “Reading In Bed” by Steven Gilbar

This book is a collection of 22 short essays about reading from some of the world’s most famous authors.

You’ll hear from Michel de Montaigne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcel Proust, and many other authors talk about why they love reading and how they do it. At 160 pages, it’s a quick and easy read.

If you’re a bibliophile or love classic literature, consider checking out this book.

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