Front page news on The Boston Globe (so it must be true): People are reading less. David Mehegan tells us about a National Endowment for the Arts study about reading habits (.pdf) indicating the decline in people reading for pleasure continues. It seems that if children don’t read for pleasure, they don’t magically start the […]
The director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University, Maryanne Wolf, ponders at what point children should be introduced to online tools in a Boston Globe piece.
"More specifically, in the expert reading brain, the first milliseconds of decoding have become virtually automatic within that circuit. It is this automaticity that allows […]
With a combination of the Internet and public domain material, some students have less to carry to class. Yay to fewer back problems!
Y’all catch Judy Blume on Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! this weekend? I remember my Mom reading me books she authored. I read a few on my own, too. Blume talks about her work and being the author of banned books during the Not My Job segment of the radio show.
Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road, often thought of as a defining work of the Beat Generation, celebrates its 50th year of publication. When Kerouac wrote the book, he taped sheets of paper together and fed them through a typewriter. The resulting scroll is now traveling around the country in a special exhibit. Until October […]
An Associated Press-Ipsos telephone poll of about 1,000 people indicates reading habits are continuing to decline. Only 1/4 of people surveyed admitted reading a book last year. People who are white, Democratic or liberal, living in the Midwest or West, educated, and don’t regularly attend religious services are more likely to read than others. Religious […]
A very kind person loaned me a copy of the latest Harry Potter. I have the third book in the His Dark Materials series sitting on my nightstand. While I finished up my book group reading assignment, I debated which one to read next. I finished the second book of His Dark Materials last […]
Well, have you?
I was supposed to do something completely different Friday night, but I postponed those plans with the hope of going to at least part of the Harry Potter festivities in Harvard Square. I ended up staying far later than my original intention, but I would say it was worth it. I planned to […]
I wonder if that’s going to be Weekend America’s question this week.
So, what are you doing for the newest and possibly last volume of the book series Harry Potter’s release?
I read somewhere about some late night partying in Harvard Square.
Too bad my favorite Harry Potter fan isn’t here to go with me.
I don’t know why I’ve been writing more than usual about reading lately. Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading some great books. Maybe it’s because everyone seems to think more about reading during the summer. Maybe it’s the new Harry Potter coming out in … a matter of hours that aren’t so difficult to count […]