What are the real benefits of reading books? @mistersalesman

The shocking truth is 59% of high school graduates will never read another book, they have no clue what they're missing. I highly recommend reading the following article and to share it with others. Our great country is slowly slipping into a state of adult illiteracy.

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How great books both change us and make us more ourselves.

BY MARIA POPOVA Maria Follow @brainpicker

“A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another,” Rebecca Solnit wrote in her gorgeous contemplation of why we read. A century earlier, Kafka asserted in a memorable letter to his childhood friend that “a book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” Indeed, the question of what books do for the human soul and spirit stretches from ancient meditations to contemporary theories about the four psychological functions of reading. But hardly anyone has articulated the enchantment of literature more succinctly yet beautifully than C.S. Lewis (November 29, 1898–November 22, 1963), a man deeply invested in the authenticity of the written word.

In his 1961 book An Experiment in Criticism (public library), he considers literatures’s immense power to expand our inner worlds:


In broadening our individual reality, Lewis argues, great books also manage to contain and console our most overwhelming emotions:


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