What are benefits of Reading Novels ?
This could also be asked as what are the benefits of noticing people live their lives, of dealing with their dilemmas, going through difficult time and happy times, through periods of dole and delight, being at the horn of a dilemma, dealing with personal loss, injury, instances of personal victory, making hard choices, taking difficult decisions, trying to keep things simple, trying to keep both ends together, going through trials and tribulations of their circumstances, being in love, raising families, being ambitious, working hard, living, dying, performing unimaginable feats of courage and forbearance, then falling for simple things and rising again after each fall. The drama that this life is, is being played all around us, everywhere, but do we notice? I think novels do the seeing and gathering life for us, capture just that. They bring to you, encapsulated in a nutshell, the life, the life that all too often we fail to notice, the life that remains for most of us too scattered i
