... 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 security blanket, it comforts me in a time when I need comforting ... pleasures that solitude can afford you, because it is, at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures"(Bloom 614). This quotation states that the healing powers of reading are immensely o...

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