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user-inactivated  ·  4399 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Good Books Can Change You - Neil Wagner - The Atlantic

Oh, I've read this. I remember wishing it was one of The Atlantic's reflective feature pieces rather than an argument with facts to back it up. I went in expecting to be able to reminisce and instead I learned something, which is obviously also good -- but I think if I wrote a post about how books can change lives I would go about it in a different way.

EDIT: Here's a shameless plug for a poem I wrote -- this is how I think books, especially fiction, change children (or anyone really).