I was at the gym today and was watching a series of educational videos while doing my cardio. What can I say? I like multitasking. Anyway, John Green (some of you may recognize his name) has a youtube channel called Crash Course: https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse The videos are brilliant and I truly enjoy watching them. Back to my point.
This particular video was on how and why we read. John made some really good points about how language, specifically written language has power. (Side note: He has the phrase, "This machine kills fascists" on his macbook pro which I'm sure is a tribute to Woody Guthrie. This makes me like John Green all that much more. Two reasons. He's a Mac guy and obviously likes Woody Guthrie or at very least doesn't like fascists. Either way, win win.) Back to the video.
He makes a point that reading is a conversation between the author and the reader. I've never really looked at it that way. I've always viewed reading as more like me consuming (there's that word again) the author's content. It's an interesting thought to see myself as having a "voice" in that conversation. I'm going to have to think on this some more.
Speaking of conversation, please feel free to leave your comments to this or any other of my posts. I'd love to read them and respond.
Hey, it's day 9. I mean 7 and I'm still here! This is fun, right?
P.S. For those of you who are curious, here's the link to the video I referenced today: https://youtu.be/MSYw502dJNY
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