Do you understand the significance of reading? Books are ubiquitous, strewn throughout tiny and large bookstores, libraries, and even bookstalls. Reading is beneficial to our mental development. It provides infinite lessons and knowledge, keeping your mind engaged.
Regular readers appreciate the places that have books, while the people who are not into the habit of reading books are unable to understand the reason for obsession. Books have all sorts of stories, information, feelings and thoughts that are found nowhere else.
Do you know reading has several health benefits? Actually, yes, it has a plethora of benefits and to name a few are:
- Preserves brain health and reduces Alzheimer's risk
- The stress levels get reduced
- It alleviates depression and anxiety
- Increases the life expectancy
- Helps you sleep
- Promotes overall life satisfaction and happiness.
Reading is a simple activity that activates your mind, offers refreshed perspective to meet the challenges in life and provides escape in day-to-day life.
There are no hard and fast rules about reading. In fact, silently reading for just six minutes is enough to show heart rate reduction and ease muscle tension. This reveals that even reading for a short time works better to ensure relaxation than other methods such as walking, listening to music, or even sipping tea.
Reading regularly for 30 minutes a day means you can be assured of adding two healthy years to your life. Developing this habit of reading cannot be done overnight. It is a practice that should come as regular and reading for 30 minutes every day is certain to lengthen the number of years you live.
Choosing Books
The most successful and wealthiest people read non-fiction books that are autobiographies and biographies of successful people so that they are educated more and give importance to it than getting entertained.
The benefits can be experienced in all books, non-fiction or fiction, prose or poetry. Literary fiction makes you increase emotional intelligence and makes you more empathetic.
Reading dramatically changes lives, so reading anything that interests you is the best. Having books means you never feel lost or look for friends. This is because you are immersed in the fictional, fantastical land.
It is one of the best stress busters. After a tiring day at work, reaching your cupboard for a book and reading for a few minutes is enough to take away your office stress.
Granite Stories - A Novel By Vance Bennett
It's 1977, and you're back in your twenties. You owe no one, and no one owes you anything. You just want a wage and a place to live.
You're driving down that muddy, pot-holey, raggedy stretch of road known as the North Fork Highway in a damaged old automobile with bald tyres and $7.27 in your pocket.
You're staring at what's left of that town, a crumbling downtown at the edge of an emerald green meadow being blanketed in the first snowfall of the new winter.
This is a tale about that town.
This is also a story of those of us who lived in that town in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Katy Gunn, Timothy O'Leary, Jim, Alice, and Cecil are the characters in this story. Children born between the late 1940s and the early 1950s. Back then, a member of what was informally referred to as the "Working Class." A segment of what was described as the "Baby Boomer" generation's demographic parceling.
This book is a great read and is available on Amazon.
