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What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
4.75

I felt like it was too short — I read the whole thing in about half a sitting and was left wanting more — while at the same time certain points were repeated to excess. (A note to writers at large: just like saying “no offense” is utterly ineffective, writing “as has been previously mentioned” doesn’t negate the monotony of constant repetition.) And a few points in particular, e.g.seeing the pictures in Chinese characters as a non-fluent reader, weren’t quite followed through to conclusions even though they raised new contradictions and concerns. 

But overall, I’m totally (book-)nerding out about how meta the whole thing is: a book about the reading experience that is, in itself, a Reading Experience: The varied sentence structure, conceptual/abstract images, closely-read literary examples all contributed to a unique narrative.