How Reading Makes Your Life Richer.

Brooke Meredith
7 min readMar 6, 2019
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By mere virtue of the fact that I have a blog devoted to books makes it obvious how strongly I feel about reading.

Books make for a bomb diggity, far more phenomenal life. In fact, I would go so far as to say that a life without any semblance of reading would be one that is missing out in significant ways.

Here is how reading makes your life richer, more satisfying, happier, healthier, and way better all-around.

Reading adds a whole additional layer to your daily experience and life.

Rising from bed, eating breakfast, getting ready, heading off to work, engaging in your job, socializing with colleagues, commuting home, going to the gym, cooking and eating meals, scrolling through your phone.

Within all of this, having a book you are reading, be it fiction or nonfiction, contributes a whole additional thought process to your life and day. It offers you a different world or story for diving into, apart from the one you are occupying. And, reading merely adds on to the knowledge and insights you already have.

It’s like, where a life without any reading or books might be one lived using a limited palette of paints, one which is created and built upon with reading is a life lived whilst using hundreds of

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