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[quote=Anonymous]I may be misunderstanding some of you, but I don’t think “serious” reads are necessarily depressing or upsetting. What worries me is my own ability — because I have fallen out of the habit — to read books that require more concentration because they are more complicated or nuanced or because they require me to remember details that I didn’t take in because I was turning pages without taking in the writing while I guess my mind wandered. I think the PP who suggested books like Erik Larson’s is right—work your way back into reading more detailed stuff. Personally, when I’ve been low, I have found that reading about the plight of others (whether that means a Zola novel or the memoir of a girl who escaped the Khmer Rouge) offers a helpful serving of perspective on my own problems.[/quote]
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