Summer is for going to the movie theater because it's too hot to stay home.

It's for driving with the windows down, listening to your favorite music.

It's for stretching out while you're on vacation to gobble up a TV show.

For a guide to some of the TV movies and music we are most excited

about this summer, listen to the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR.

You're listening to Life Kit, from NPR.

Hey, I'm Andrew Limbong in from Mary El Segera.

In my usual gig at NPR, I host the Book of the Day podcast and I report for our

Culture Desk mostly covering books and publishing so I do a lot of reading which

might sound like a dream to a lot of reading, which might sound like a dream to a lot of you. But let me let you

in on a deep dark secret. I find reading extremely difficult. Ever since I was a kid through college as a literature major

and especially now when every book I read

is competing with my phone for my attention,

it's always a fight to achieve that level of locked in deep reading.

Turns out I was born this way and so were you.

We were never born to read and that means that human beings don't

have a if you will a place they don't have a genetic program for reading the way we do for language and vision and even

affect.

Everything has these genetic programs. It's just not the way reading is because it's an invention.

It doesn't exist in our brain. Rather, we have to learn it. And that means our brain has to make a new circuit.

This is Marion Wolf.

I'm the director of the Center for Dyslexia, diverse learners and social justice at ECLA.

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