A habit of reading keeps a person several miles away from the usual crowd. Mostly introverts are found glued to books from an early age and they are often remarked as “nerds” or “bookworms” as they easily find a connection to the fictional world while reading each line than their friends and families in real life. If you also have a passion for reading, then your mind is a wonderland! If you have keenness about the upcoming writers taking initiatives for self publishing on Amazon, then keep a close tab on it being a Kindle reader. Amazon sends recommendations as well as notifications to their customers about the recently published books via email. Besides, readers have multiple options to make their collections via downloading PDFs or purchasing the hard copies of the books of their favourite genres.
Let’s find out a bit more about how a habit of reading fiction benefits your mind, body and soul—
Live in a story
Reading is a soul-searching practice similar to musicians who spend hours with their piano or cello unless it touches their soul. If you love stories then since an early age, like most readers, you might feel an urge to know about new stories similar to the old times when the child couldn’t stop thinking about what happened to the princess after the happily ever after has been already declared. Was there another story behind that closed doors?
After growing up, you could maintain that quenching thirst of not only meeting new characters set up on the other side of the world and living their lives for quite a few days. Readers those who love stories prefer spending hours running through the pages until they finish it. You can also do the same and time travel or travel to a different culture and country and among new people for quite some time with the book whose book cover design impressed you equally along with the brief synopsis of the story at the back.
Get a grip on the language & enhance your vocabulary
Despite enjoying reading any fiction whether a classic or a novel by a new author launched the book via Kindle direct publishing and creating ripples- you can gain the stock of words. Reading sharpens both your brain and your diction. If you have a fascination for any language and would like to hone your skills in it then nothing can stop you from doing so with recurring practice that starts with reading.
Improve communication skills
A habit of reading improves the communication skills of any individual. The more you read the conversations the more you gain confidence to start a communication with any stranger or a known person without giving a second thought. As a good fiction reader, you will talk better than others- the non-readers. This is the reason why, most teachers urge the parents to help their children develop a habit of reading more than spending time on gadgets. For overall development, reading fictions along with other books helps individuals in character development.
Stimulate your mental health
Regular habit of spending at least an hour with a book enhances your mental health. The modern world has gifted everyone with a mental setback popularly called anxiety, stress and depression. Unfortunately, many try to get a refuge in gadgets, alcohol, mingling with temporary people and so on. However, if you are a reader, you will be naturally healed by reading a good fiction.
To deal with a dark phase pick up any Russian novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky or Leo Tolstoy. To feed your romance-aching soul you might like reading Harry Potter. The classic young girl inside you would yearn to go through the pages of Emma or Wuthering Heights to get a quick escape from the present anxieties you are dealing with.
Even in your happiness, books can be a medium to sustain your happy hormones intact. However, you need to pick the perfect book for that.
Join a reputed book club and join a few social media reader’s communities to know about the latest books they are reading despite collecting eBook versions from online platforms where many talented self-publishing writers opt for Kindle direct publishing UK to reach out to more readers.