Reviews for Neuropsychology of language, reading, and spelling

The average rating for Neuropsychology of language, reading, and spelling based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-03-27 00:00:00 Jeff Babb Ideally, I would have read this book as part of my fantasy book group with Charles Mills, where we would have discussed - for example - the epistemological underpinnings of the experiences Senegalese soldiers, their relationship with the French colons, how the racial contract fit in to this . . . what the hell was up with Lunn's use of quotation marks. (And by this point, Charles Mills would either realize we need to be married, or that he needs to get away from me very quickly.) Seriously, though, I liked that Memoirs of the Maelstrom (Lunn likes his alliteration . . . I wish he had picked up a few other literary tricks in his high school English classes) focused where it did. The story it tells is not a well-known one, at least not in the Anglophone world. It is sometimes sad, and sometimes encouraging. Occasionally, it becomes quite political, especially when Lunn discusses Blaise Diagne, an interesting man I would like to know more of. However, the book functions on a bell curve of "interesting," by which I mean it builds up to interesting and then falls away from it. The middle chapters are the best part of the book, and could probably be read on their own. The facts Lunn discusses are certainly compelling ones, and I especially liked when he quoted from his interview subjects (he should have done more of that) although he does tend to edit their quotes to a distracting degree. But despite the high level of interest I have in his subject, it was difficult to maintain it throughout the beginning and end of the book. Still, it did give me some new things to think about next time I watch La Grande Illusion.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-07-03 00:00:00 Camille Carrasco Amazing, if youthful historians brought up on the interweb think all data comes from a 13 in macbook, this should once again argue the necessity, nay, the critical nature of oral history on our time.