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Last night at dinner my dad made a comment about how reading a book multiple times improves memory. As a reader will find some details that they haven’t remembered on the first reading.  And I agreed as I have read books multiple times and found this to be true. I also added that sometimes when I read a page I start guessing the next word on the next. I also think that my writing has improved since I started reading more and perhaps my interest in reading improved since I started writing. As one of the things I had to do is read my own writing. I also wished that I did these two activities a lot more when I was a kid as I think that I would have done better at school.

Anyway after dinner last night I decided to look up information on the benefits of reading, and found that it is an activity that people with mental health problems are encouraged to do as experts have discovered that reading regularly reduces anxiety and stress. I also read a lovely story on the internet about an old lady in a nursing home as I read that she likes reading novels and reads one a week. She also enjoys reading as it is one of the things she can do independently and it is also a social activity for her as a person visits her each week bringing her a new novel to read and this gives her a chance to talk about them as well. I also read on the internet that reading benefits everyone and we should all try to read a book a week. And here’s a interesting personal development web site that explains the benefits of doing that:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/02/read-a-book-a-week/