A grasshopper reading! :D
A grasshopper, caught browsing in a bookstore! Looked like it was spoilt for choice! hehe Such a great shot! :) Thanks Chaz for sharing it with me!
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Is it time to slow our reading down?
Do you tend to scan a text or really read it? (I know someone who reads every word when reading a book! :) You know who you are *wink*) When was the last time you allowed the words from a book/text and your thought sink in? 'Cuz you see...seems like technology has kinda made us 'lazy' readers (not liking to read lengthy articles and generally just skimming/scanning it) and...well...'stupider' (kinda) This is what I found... "According to The Shallows , a new book by technology sage Nicholas Carr, our hyperactive online habits are damaging the mental faculties we need to process and understand lengthy textual information. Round-the-clock news feeds leave us hyperlinking from one article to the next – without necessarily engaging fully with any of the content; our reading is frequently interrupted by the ping of the latest email; and we are now absorbing short bursts of words on Twitter and Facebook more regularly than longer texts." and... "If you want...
Reading's Healing Powers...
Does reading really help one out of depression? Early this year, I posted an article about reading out of depression - where the writer wrote about how Saul Bellow's Herzog helped her out of depression. She said, "....I was able momentarily to forget my own problems and lose myself completely in the richly detailed and beautifully rendered world of the novel." Emma Thompson, an English actress, also sought refuge in reading . She claimed that she was "saved" by immersing herself in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. I'm sure there are many of us who find reading therapeutic. I'm one of them *wink* Anyway, did you know there's this term called ' Bibliotherapy '? It's an expressive therapy that uses an individual's relationship to the content of books and poetry and other written words as therapy. The Wikipedia explains, "The basic concept behind bibliotherapy is that reading is a healing experience. It was applied to both ...