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The reading life offers many advantages to those who participate in it. There is the escape reading offers from the everyday, meeting characters who share the same struggles and have the same desires you do, thus alleviating feelings of alienation, being able to walk in someone else’s shoes for awhile thus developing a better understanding of the world and, finally, learning about other places and sometimes being transported to those places by the descriptions an author offers up. Books that do this especially well are said to have a “sense of place”.