"Stories written in the first-person can temporarily transform the way
readers view the world, themselves and other social groups."
Ever wondered how movies and books drag you in? How you emotionally connect with villains, such as Loki, Saint Dane, or Voldemort, when in real life you wouldn't kick a kitten? Researchers from Ohio State University have been looking at "experience-taking," or what readers get out of books. The idea is to make readers think outside of themselves and literally become someone else, so that they can share experiences and look outside of their own life to understand other people's lives. This article doesn't promise all of the answers for how and why we fall in love with certain characters, but it's certainly going to start up the Michigan/Ohio State rivalry.
Go State!
I read everything.
Books in foreign languages, non-fiction, manga, autobiography, controversial, and whatever it is that Faulkner writes.
I read banned books.
Sometimes I think I should switch to Harlequin.
But that would be too easy.
This is a record of what I am reading and thinking. I do not promise to be anything less than myself.
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