Saturday, January 21, 2012

Theme Thursday: Come




Hosted by Reading Between the Pages

Rules
*A theme will be posted each week on Thursday
*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from your current book that features the theme
*Post it and don't forget to mention the author and title of the book
*Event is open for the whole week
*Link back to Reading Between the Pages

This week's theme is Come (came, arrive, coming, etc).

This was a difficult theme for me this week--maybe because I'm reading nonfiction. Here's what I was able to find in Proust & the Squid: The Story & Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf:

Then, after you integrated all this visual, conceptual, and linguistic information with your background knowledge and inferences, you arrived at an understanding of what Proust was describing: a glorious day in childhood made timeless through the "divine pleasure" that is reading! (p. 10)

AND

Visual cells possess th capacity to become highly specialized and highly specific, and to make new circuits among preexisting structures. This allows babies to come into the world with eyes that are almost ready to fire and that are exceptional examples of design and precision. (p. 12)

7 comments:

Debbie Rodgers said...

Well done, Bev! That was a hard one.

Yvonne said...

Good job! Great snippets!

Jessica@Booked Up! said...

Great job...that was a difficult one there! By the way, i really enjoy reading your blog,

Jessica from Booked Up!
http://bookedupbloggers.blogspot.com/

:) x

Vicki said...

Good job! Your book sounds interesting!

scribeswindow said...

Well done finding a theme in non fiction! Sometimes I struggle and I'm usually reading fiction. Thanks for stopping by my blog. :)

srivalli said...

Sounds like a great read! Happy Reading!

Landslide said...

It wasn't easy for me either and I'm reading fiction. But you managed to find two!

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