Happy reading,
by Clifford Thurlow
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Reading makes you happy. In fact, reading keeps you healthy, open, energized and helps you get a good night’s sleep.
Oscar Wilde said: ‘If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.’
If Oscar had lived in the age of television he would have been one of those people who believed TV was for appearing on, not for watching.
Research shows that monitor screens of all kinds, big and small, smartphones and home cinemas, deadens the brain cells and softens the synapses. If the grey matter is not stimulated, it is harder to enjoy life’s small pleasures: walking in the countryside, smelling the roses, morning sex with the sun slipping through the window, reading.
When you read a novel, you leave your ego outside the...