Readers Live Longer than Non-readers

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One of our correspondents who has her finger on the pulse of the latest research (thank you Teri) has sent us a link to a recent study published in the Journal of Social Science and Medicine that seems to indicate readers live significantly longer than non-readers.

The Great Read Completed….(more or less)

The Winner

The end of January, and my first task for the year is complete; well not quite, for I didn’t read thirty books. Only twenty-eight. But wouldn’t you say reading Dickens is like reading two books? Here are the titles listed below. I leave you to form your own opinion as to whether I could have done more. But whatever the number, it has again been an agreeable experience and one I recommend. As I often say to the Silent Companion, ‘If only I was at the beach for a month with no interruptions.’ And he replies, ‘But you live at the beach.’ And it is true we live about twenty paces from the sea. But the interruptions of daily life also surround us.

The Great Read 2020: Half way there

Regular readers of these pages may have read of my attempts  in January of the last few years to read thirty books. That would amount to one book per day, with a day left over at the end of the month to perhaps finish reading an exceptionally long book.