Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf [Reading]

I mostly enjoyed this book. I’m not sure exactly what I had in mind – the subtitle is “The Story and Science of the Reading Brain” – but it felt a bit more academic than I was hoping for. I enjoyed the less technical bits but found the more neuroscience-y parts dull. One of my favorite parts of the book was the explanation of Socrates’s reasons for being wary of the introduction of the written word. I know very little about Greek history and was entirely unaware that anyone had ever seriously...