People often say they read novels to “escape” into
another life, or go to another world, or become another person, and for a little
while, they leave their worries and cares behind.
Turns out, there is more Fact to this, than Fiction.
Last year about this time, I wrote my first blog as
a published-author-to-be, titled 2013.
I went back and re-read it, and found that it runs in
the same vein as this
article. Following is a short excerpt.
“They [authors] entertain the masses by taking them out of
their humdrum, everyday existence into the dynamic lives of the people they’d
like to be: cops and robbers, astronauts and aliens, witches and warlocks ...
hustlers and hookers.
We all wonder
... what would it be like?
The author
shows us. Takes us there, and we become that which we seek; if for just a
little while. The author has the power to transform our ordinary worlds into
something extra-ordinary, and we seek them out in every bookstore we encounter.”
Here I speak
of authors, but if you plug in the word ‘books’ nothing changes, because a book
is the medium … the magic wand, the door to another world.
Embedded
is a link to the article from MailOnline: How a book really can change your life, by Sarah Griffiths (Thanks Ken). It tells of
a study by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, and how they used
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to see the effects that reading a good book
has, and how it can “transport” the reader.
Hopefully
this post will do the same.
Have a Safe
and Happy New Year, everyone!
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