2. Every book will
teach you something

3. The word sepulchre (a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried)

4. About the Napoleonic Wars

5. How it feels to lose someone you love

6. I don’t like this kind of book

7. Reminds me of all the things I haven’t done

8. Lived in the Victorian age
Been to California
Lived in the Victorian age
Married a prince
Been elected to office
But through books I can understand, or even experience, all these things

13. …
Things I don’t know 9

14. Steve Jobs has been reported by The New York Times  to have been a passionate reader of William Blake’s literary pieces.

15. Phil Knight, the founder of Nike, has his own library and insists that people leave their shoes behind before entering it.

16. Winston Churchill did not win a Nobel Prize for peace but for literature.

17. Reading makes you smarter
Top right; bottom left (and read across the row)

18. Reading helps you to improve your vocabulary (cf thesaurus errors and reading the dictionary)
From reading, you can develop improved writing skills.
Improved skills of analysis; critical thinking
Breaks continuum of everyday – makes us stop and think
Greater tranquility

20. Read often + enjoy reading + read good books =
smarter, happier, more successful