\'We were never born to read\', says Maryanne Wolf.
It is a pop science masterpiece on a subject that anyone who loves reading will be sure to find fascinating..
She also investigates what happens to people whose brains make it difficult to acquire these skills, such as those with dyslexia.
Wolf, a world expert on the reading brain, brings both a personal passion and deft style to this, the story of the reading brain.
She examines how this \'open architecture\', the elasticity of our brains, helps and hinders humans in their attempts to learn to read, and to process the written language.
And with this invention, we changed the very organisation of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think, which altered the intellectual evolution of our species.\' In "Proust and the Squid", Maryanne Wolf explores our brains\' near-miraculous ability to arrange and re-arrange themselves in response to external circumstances.
Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. \'No specific genes ever dictated reading\'s development. \'We were never born to read\', says Maryanne Wolf
