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The New Yorker

Can Reading Make You Happier?

After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.

“... even if you don’t agree that reading fiction makes us treat others better, it is a way of treating ourselves better. Reading has been shown to put our brains into a pleasurable trance-like state, similar to meditation, and it brings the same health benefits of deep relaxation and inner calm. Regular readers sleep better, have lower stress levels, higher self-esteem, and lower rates of depression than non-readers. ‘Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines,’ the author Jeanette Winterson has written. ‘What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.’”

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My Life as Kayla

My Favorite Books of 2022

I read (and/or listened to) 75 books this year, for a total of 27,515 pages. To be fair, that doesn’t count the three I have in progress rig