Wow! That is my kind of article! I especially loved this quote: "Reading pushes the pain away into a place where it no longer seems important. No matter how ill you are, there's a world inside books which you can enter and explore, and where you focus on something other than your own problems. You get to talk about things that people usually skate over, like ageing or death, and that kind of conversation - with everyone chipping in, so you feel part of something - can be enormously helpful."

I have always "prescribed" books in my practice (psychotherapy), but have never had a group reading such as described in this article. I have always known of the healing properties of reading. Thank you so much for sharing this!