Readers Block Matthew Rubery by Matthew Rubery; instant download after payment.

THIS BOOK TELLS the stories of atypical readers and the impact

had on their lives by a spectrum of neurological conditions affecting

their ability to make sense of the printed word. The first history of

neurodivergent reading, it relies on personal testimonies that have

been left out of conventional histories of reading to express how

cognitive differences shape people’s experiences both on and off the

page. A key premise of the book is that there is no single activity

known as reading. Instead, there are multiple ways of reading (and,

for that matter, not reading) despite the ease with which people use

the term in conversation and act as if everyone does it in essentially

the same fashion. Take a moment to consider what the term

“reading” means to you. Whatever your conception of reading may

be, and no matter how well you think you understand it, the

examples presented here will push you to rethink the term’s scope.

My aim is to defamiliarize reading, to make you sit up, like Dickens’s

Joe Gargery, and say, “How interesting reading is!”

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