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When did you last read a book, a novel, or even a sports or fashion magazine? Do your daily reading habits revolve around Facebook updates, tweets, or even your instant oatmeal cover guidelines?
If you are one of the many people who do not regularly read, you might be missing a lot.
Reading has various benefits, and here are four benefits of reading you need to know.
Expands Vocabulary
The more you study, the more words you discover, and they make their way to your daily diction.
Being fluent and well-spoken helps in any career. Good vocabulary can aid in your profession. People who are well-spoken and knowledgeable on many topics get promotions quickly than those with a lack of literature awareness and fewer vocabularies.
Acknowledging that you can articulate with self-confidence can improve your self-esteem.
Additionally, reading has proven helpful, especially in child development. When children get exposed to reading materials like illustrated classics, they learn new words and their meaning.
Reading books is also essential when learning new languages. It exposes non-native speakers to words used in a specific context. It will improve your reading, writing, and speaking fluency.
Reduces Stress
Generally, reading has made the world a better place. You may have stress due to relationships, work, or any other issues in your daily life. Fortunately, with a good book, it all fades away.
Exciting novels can bring you to another world. A pleasant article or magazine will occupy you and have you in the present time, draining your tension and enabling you to relax.
Apart from stress reduction, reading also lowers heart rate and blood pressure effectively as humor and yoga.
Helps Alleviate Depression Symptoms
Consolation from imaginary things is not imaginary consolation. When depressed, you might often feel estranged and isolated from other people. Fortunately, that’s a feeling books can lessen.
Reading fictional novels can allow you to temporarily become swept up in the imaginary experiences in the story. On the other hand, nonfiction self-help books can educate you on strategies that may come in handy when managing depression symptoms.
Additionally, some countries’ health services have started books on prescription programs. This program involves medical experts curating and prescribing self-help books for depression patients.
Improves Memory
When reading a book, you often have to remember the storyline and other vital factors. They may include an assortment of characters, their history, background, ambitions, and nuances, as well as the different subplots and arcs that weave their way through the story.
All that is a fair bit to recall. However, the brain is spectacular and can remember things with ease.
Remarkably enough, every extra memory you make produces new synapses and reinforces the existing ones. This act aids in short-term memory recall and also in stabilizing moods.
Conclusion
There’s a reading genre for all literate people on the planet. Whether you prefer poetry, classical literature, magazines, biographies, self-help guides, or religious texts, there is something that will capture your imagination and curiosity.
Take a break from your computer, open a book, and refresh your mind for a little while.
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was another one of my favorite books from last year. It follows the story of Gretchen Rubin as she tries to cultivate happiness over 365 days after having the realization: "The days are long, but the years are short."
and my mother have been telling me for years - outer organization creates inner calm.
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is by far one of the most moving books I've read in a long while. I have loved Lisa See's books since I first read 
which was the first encounter I had with her work. I've since read most of her books, heard her speak, and been a loyal fan for years. The Tea Girl follows an Akha through her life in Yunnan province. 
. It is a beautiful province that was extremely poor both in the novel and my personal experience. 
came out several years ago and also was made into a 
. It takes place in the deep South back in the 60s when white women were expected to marry, play bridge, and have the help raise their children. 
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, Thomas arrives in the Glade without his memory in a box that deposits him in the midst of a group of boys. Think 
meets the future that is in total upheaval. There is definitely a pecking order and each boy is assigned a job. The Glade is surrounded by walls on each side that close up every night. Runners have the job of trying to map the maze that encircles The Glade to try and find a way of escape. It's very much a young adult read but it's a good story of what trust is, is the individual or group more important, and what determines friendship.
continues the Maze Runner saga. They've escaped the maze but what follows is anything but better. The Gladers learn the Sun Flare has ruined the world as they knew and has infected most of the population with "the flare". WCKED is the group that put them in maze to try to find a cure and now they are testing them even further in this next set of trials set in The Scorch where humans don't quite act like humans but more like crazed, rabid animals. 
is the third installment of the saga. I'm still in the middle of getting through this one, but it definitely keeps you on the edge of your seat. Thomas continues to fight for his life, his friends, and to try and take down WCKED. More to come as I finish.
franchise starts out very much in line with the first book. However, then it dramatically departs from the storyline in the books. That being said, although different, I think they are still very good. Some of the things depicted in the books would just be too difficult to try and convey on the big screen. 