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How Good Books Can Change You
Summer’s here and time for summer reading at the beach, in a hammock or on the porch. Books are great for passing the time on lazy summer afternoons. And according to Ohio State researchers, the books you read from childhood on can also change who you are.
They do this by a process the researchers called experience taking. More than just understanding a character, it’s taking a little of them inside of you and changing yourself in the process. It’s not something that you plan on, it happens spontaneously. Good writing helps, but there’s much more involved.
Read more.[Image: Alexandre Dulaunoy/Flickr] via theatlantic
Hello experience taking,
this explains why I am the embodiment of Anne of Green Gables. See here, here, here, oh yeah and here for further proof.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6jplwYH8Y1qcokc4o1_1280.jpg)
Summer’s here and time for summer reading at the beach, in a hammock or on the porch. Books are great for passing the time on lazy summer afternoons. And according to Ohio State researchers, the books you read from childhood on can also change who you are.
They do this by a process the researchers called experience taking. More than just understanding a character, it’s taking a little of them inside of you and changing yourself in the process. It’s not something that you plan on, it happens spontaneously. Good writing helps, but there’s much more involved.
Read more.[Image: Alexandre Dulaunoy/Flickr] via theatlantic
Hello experience taking,
this explains why I am the embodiment of Anne of Green Gables. See here, here, here, oh yeah and here for further proof.
