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| Reading in Reclusion |
Times of isolation can be tough to bear. One slight-seeming consolation may be that we finally have sufficient time - and an absence of other distractions - to devote to reading.
This is more of a blessing than it might first sound. Reading isn’t just a way of killing time, or (as it can often seem) impressing our friends and followers. At The School of Life, we believe that reading is a form of therapy: a way of processing our own thoughts through the medium of others’ words.
Books make sense of our experience. Through simplification, elision and empathy, they bring clarity to situations and states of mind that we ourselves are familiar with but have so far lacked the means to analyse. In the best of them, we find ourselves - made comprehensible for the first time. They speak not only to their own age, but to all ages. Indeed, some - like Camus’ La Peste - seem more relevant today than they ever did.
For more on the therapeutic benefits of reading, click the link below - or keep scrolling to find out how The School of Life can connect you with great books, both physical and virtual, even in these difficult times. |
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The School of Life Press is dedicated to emotional intelligence; publishing lucid and consoling guides to fulfillment. As well as physical editions available for delivery worldwide, a selection of our titles are available to buy as eBooks. Whether you’re looking to catch up on confidence, learn the secrets of self-knowledge, or undertake an entire emotional education, we have invaluable guides you can download today. |
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| Virtual Bibliotherapy |
| The books that stay with us are those that seem to speak directly to our own personality, as though they have been written exclusively for us. But with around 130 million to choose from, the trouble comes with finding them. For a limited time, we’re offering virtual bibliotherapy sessions: an online consultation with one of our trained bibliotherapists, who can pair you with books uniquely suited to your tastes, concerns and experiences. |
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| On Reading at the Right Time |
| The task of linking the right book to the right person at the right time hasn’t yet received the attention it deserves: newspapers and friends recommend books to us because they work for them, without quite thinking through why they might also work for us. But when we happen to come across the ideal book for us we are presented with an extraordinarily clearer, more lucid, better organised account of our own concerns and experiences. |
| – Extract from The Book of Life | The Importance of Books |
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