Reading Up
This could have been a follow up to this entry on reading, but it really isn't. It just happens to be a common topic with me because we have to deal with it everyday.
Shannon reads everywhere she goes - and that's actually no different from the last time. But she's taken it to a higher level of hazard-ness these days - if we don't stop her - she would be crossing the road, carparks, walking on planks and the like while electronically flipping through her Kindle telling me "ok, last page, last page", just before she collides into a lamp post.
The quality of the reading is also observably called into question by the way she flips through the books (she finished the first book of Harry Potter in about a week!) without appearing to absorb any information or meaning. Sometimes I glace at the page and ask her a question about a particular word - Shannon, what does "catastrophe" mean? And she stares at me blankly like "why are you asking me such a strange question?". Obviously it is some kind of punctuation mark: full-stop, comma, catastrophe.
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The quality of the reading is also observably called into question by the way she flips through the books (she finished the first book of Harry Potter in about a week!) without appearing to absorb any information or meaning. Sometimes I glace at the page and ask her a question about a particular word - Shannon, what does "catastrophe" mean? And she stares at me blankly like "why are you asking me such a strange question?". Obviously it is some kind of punctuation mark: full-stop, comma, catastrophe.