But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

Laura Amy Schlitz
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People who read books and bookshelves will be able to find any topic and find a book on it. A book can be about what we had for lunch, what we want to do tomorrow or even how we live our lives. Reading a book is not just about reading the words but it’s also about the emotions that the author is trying to portray through those words. Reading a book can make us think of different ways of doing things and give us the courage to do those things.It also gives us some confidence as we can imagine ourselves as those who lived those stories and tried to achieve those goals and dreams and challenges.

Reading a book makes us imagine various people and how they might be like. Reading a book gives us new perspectives on life and how we choose to live our lives.Reading a book makes you feel inspired and makes you want to succeed at life's challenges

Source: The Hired Girl

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