You have won me over as a fan because I also consider reading a major human function. I struggle to read on line and recall an article (in Scientific American I think) which cited scientific studies showing that the human brain registers electronic words differently from those in hard print. I already knew this since editing my book and …
You have won me over as a fan because I also consider reading a major human function. I struggle to read on line and recall an article (in Scientific American I think) which cited scientific studies showing that the human brain registers electronic words differently from those in hard print. I already knew this since editing my book and other articles on line always resulted in overlooking errors, to the point where I always sent my writings to my husband for reading and then printing a hard copy for me to edit. I admire the breadth of your reading choices; however, I am really puzzled at the absence of nonfiction, especially in the hard and social sciences, i.e. biology, nature,
science in general, language, anthropology, etc. For me these are, for the most part, my only reading choices aside from classic older fiction, mainly because I find that the recommendations of other people turn out to be, for me, uninteresting or lacking in heft ( my exceptions are Marquez,
Nabokov, Roth, Katharine Anne Porter, Virginia Woolf...though I read a truly great piece by
Valeria Luiselli some years ago (The Story of My Teeth). I am happy to say my granddaughter, now
in her junior year at Princeton, is majoring in literature and writing, including playwriting. When she was little and we took her out for a walk or dinner, she walked along with us reading whatever book she had started before the walk. How many people do you know like that? (I was an English major at Cornell and audited a couple of lectures by Nabokov, who read from notes, and I have no recollection of his classes whatsoever).
You have won me over as a fan because I also consider reading a major human function. I struggle to read on line and recall an article (in Scientific American I think) which cited scientific studies showing that the human brain registers electronic words differently from those in hard print. I already knew this since editing my book and other articles on line always resulted in overlooking errors, to the point where I always sent my writings to my husband for reading and then printing a hard copy for me to edit. I admire the breadth of your reading choices; however, I am really puzzled at the absence of nonfiction, especially in the hard and social sciences, i.e. biology, nature,
science in general, language, anthropology, etc. For me these are, for the most part, my only reading choices aside from classic older fiction, mainly because I find that the recommendations of other people turn out to be, for me, uninteresting or lacking in heft ( my exceptions are Marquez,
Nabokov, Roth, Katharine Anne Porter, Virginia Woolf...though I read a truly great piece by
Valeria Luiselli some years ago (The Story of My Teeth). I am happy to say my granddaughter, now
in her junior year at Princeton, is majoring in literature and writing, including playwriting. When she was little and we took her out for a walk or dinner, she walked along with us reading whatever book she had started before the walk. How many people do you know like that? (I was an English major at Cornell and audited a couple of lectures by Nabokov, who read from notes, and I have no recollection of his classes whatsoever).
You're referring to this article, perhaps? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/