... times get hard a book will take you and place you somewhere that you would rather be. Novels also help to put your life into perspective. After I read Alan Paton's "Cry, the Beloved Country," I realized that my problems would never amount to as much suffering or pain that several of the characters in his book have gone through. Reading has always been like my ... most healing of pleasures"(Bloom 614). This quotation states that the healing powers of reading are immensely overlooked and ignored. Reading takes you away, it allows you to make revelations, cry along with the characters, and...

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