A review by dahlreads
Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf

4.0

A fascinating exploration of how a transition to a digital culture will affect (and has already affected!) our deep reading skills, which consequently affects our critical thinking skills and our ability to empathize with others. Particularly interesting were the sections on what this means for children: how we can prime them for deep reading skills in those critical 0-5 years. Overall, this book has a hopeful outlook that hinges upon us as a society taking action to preserve deep reading / critical thinking before it’s too late. The solutions offered are feasible, provided we fight for it and pressure elected officials to make policies that will give more funding to schools and more funding for research.