Initially [my favorite books] seem to immerse me in another life, but ultimately they immerse me in me; I am looking through the window into another person’s home, but it is my face that I see in the reflection.

Derek Thompson
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When you read a book, it’s not just the words that you absorb. It’s the ideas, the images, and the characters that live in your mind even longer after you’ve put the book down. That’s why a good book is a good friend; because when you read it again, it reminds you of all the good times and bad times in your life. But when you hit a reading slump, like I did recently, all you see is yourself in the books.

You know exactly what these characters are going through and how they’re feeling about it. And sometimes we’re too close to be able to see it objectively.

Source: Hit Makers: The Science Of Popularity In An Age Of Distraction

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