bookmarks that enhance your reading experience
This will be a good opportunity to pick up Italic Bookmarks in time for the holiday season, and to find many other gift ideas. The market features many handmade, unique gifts and is located in Trolley Square. It will be a perfect holiday shopping opportunity, and a chance to beat the crowds that will be out in force in upcoming weeks! The market goes for a few more weekends, but Italic Bookmarks will only be there this Saturday Nov. 19th. Mention this post at the market and receive a free gift!
Wouldn’t you rather wait until the week before Christmas to start shopping? You might have to skip holiday parties, and use your lunch breaks to do the shopping that you could have been doing little by little over the past two months, but at least it narrows down your choices for gifts. Instead of having to stress about what the people on your gift list actually want, you only have to choose between the scant items that might be left on the shelves at Walgreen’s or the gas station, or the few stores where you might be able to fight through the crowd. Nothing says Merry Christmas like cheap fuzzy socks and cough syrup!
I found the quotes below that made me laugh:
Its funny how reading can be such a personal experience, even when we might be reading something that has been printed millions of times. It is also interesting that a book can become one of our most prized and precious possessions. The paper and ink can become so much more to us.
Reading itself can become a very personal experience as well. We can become very particular about how and what we read, and sometimes the smallest things can become bothersome if our ritual is interrupted.
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I found this article interesting and ironic – an interesting insight into the minds of some great authors, and ironic that so many have been great at something they don’t like doing.
Famous Writers Who Hated Writing
“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives.” —James Joyce (quoted in a letter to Fanny Guillermet, 5 September 1918)
The work week is finally over for most of us… we finally get to spend time doing the things we WANT to do! Its a great chance to get a jump start on a new book on your list, or to finally finish one that you have been working on.
What will you be reading this weekend?
This is a great resource that explains the various types of receptors, transmitters, sensor, processors that are all associated with our magnificent sense of touch. Each time you touch something, or feel a sensation on your skin, there is a lot more going on than you might realize. I found this site very helpful in better understanding “touch”.
I thought this article/study was fascinating because it is essentially the inverse effect of what you will experience when using Italic Bookmarks. Italic Bookmarks can enhance the reading experience by involving tactile (touch) sensation, this study indicates that tactile sensation can be enhanced by reading… in both cases it demonstrates how reading and our senses are closely related.
This study has some big words, but in simple terms the researchers had their subjects read about different descriptions of items and textures, then they let them actually feel those items. The subjects reported that their sense of touch was enhanced and more specific after this type of conditioning or “preview” than when that was not included.
I hope you find the article interesting:
It’s not the snow that I can’t stand, it’s that damn wind; it blows through everything. I try to pull my coat a little tighter, but it feels paper thin against the relentless wind. My feet are soaked standing here waiting for the B53 bus. The snow has already melted through my shoes from the top and around the sole simultaneously, my toes are freezing. The bus finally arrives, and the first person to step off is my ex-husband John. We stand for a moment face-to-face… then he nods politely and continues on his way. A wave of longing cuts through me and makes me forget about the wind and my wet feet.
This article is a lot of fun, and applicable to every day life. It provides insight into many situations that you might find yourself in on a daily basis. There is a cool neuroscience example called the “stroop test” in the article. The article was written by David Rock, founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute, and someone who I have recently discovered to have incredible insight into practical applications of neuroscience research. Let me know what you think.
Beat Back Distractions: The Neuroscience Of Getting Things Done | Huffington Post
This is a short article that summarizes research performed in the UK related to distractions from a variety of sources, primarily “electronic distractions”. The research is pretty insightful… just thinking about all of those distractions makes me want to sit down with a book and let everything else fade into the background…
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