In a recent post Read Voraciously presented a link to a Yale study that showed that people who read books live longer than those who don’t, even after social and educational factors are taken into account.
You can find her post here.
The study offers no definitive explanation of its findings.
I think I’ve got it cracked: readers hang on longer because they don’t want to be beaten by their TBR pile.
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I think there’s something to it. I wonder if it’s connected to the same sort of magic that happens when you pet an animal or fall in love. I’ll read the study, but it’s cool. I think you’re right though. There’s no way I can die before I finish the Stormlight Archive.
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Well, what is it now, eight more books to come at maybe one a year? That’s the early twenty first century accounted for.
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