Category: De Libris — On Books
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Review: Notes From A Regicide
As I read Isaac Fellman’s Notes From A Regicide, I kept recalling how I felt when I read M. John Harrison’s Viriconium novels. I haven’t read those novels in … oh, I don’t know. Thirty years? Forty? I don’t even really remember the plots. But there is something about Notes From a Regicide, set in…
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Read a Book!
Copious amounts of research indicate that cognitively active leisure-time activities, even if they’re sedentary, can help defend us from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. A 14-year study of almost 2,000 people indicated that reading, especially, can prevent cognitive decline. In fact, reading is among the activities that can actually improve cognitive function. Reading, writing, solving puzzles,…
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On Bibliotherapy
This morning I ran across a BBC article about bibliotherapy that raised my eyebrow because the idea of learning things like social behaviors, coping mechanisms, etc. from books was something I’d just … always taken for granted. So I was a little taken aback to learn that not everybody assumes this is one of a…