LOVED this book. Loved it. I (obviously) love to read, so hearing the science and history of language evolution and learning to read, was just fascinating to me. She also focused a fair bit on dyslexia (one of her sons is dyslexic) which was enlightening as to how the brain compensates and works differently than a "reading" brain. There was much discussion on the effects of reading/being read to/being around conversations on children and whether some people are born to be readers or if it is a more learned trait.

It was also interesting to learn that Socrates was so opposed to written language, as he thought it would lose something in translation. Interestingly, the author shares some his fears with the proliferation of the internet and digital media - does it make us less involved with what we read? Will our language begin to deteriorate with the advent of texting/email vernacular?

A great read - I highly recommend!