Reading is Good for your Health

     From the article Nerd Alert: Reading is Good For Your Health reading books can help many issues people have in life. Alison Kerr Courtney is a librarian, not a licensed therapist or an English teacher, and she recommends books for people to help with things such as grief or empathy. She gives books that she thinks will help them in their situation. Courtney has been told by a client how much her recommendations helped. Fiction books can help even more than self-help books. Fiction can improve people's understanding. Its complex characters help people to understand others. Understanding these characters can enhance one's empathy, and one can apply the character's situation to their own. The feelings felt when reading can improve a person's relationships with others.
     I found this article interesting. I found that reading about and understanding complex fiction characters improves empathy especially interesting. Just reading a book like Harry Potter can enhance my relationships is amazing. People that are in a situation to being the oddball out can relate to Harry Potter. He is a boy gifted with magic living in a nonmagic society for the early years of his life. Eventually, he finds his place at Hogwarts. People can relate their situation with his and can know that they will find their "Hogwarts" eventually.