Are you a habitual reader?

In the paper this a.m., there was a blurb about a new website, Habitual Reader. You can enter your profile, review books and read book reviews. They also are looking for book blogs to add to their blogroll. Also, it is associated with Komenar Publishing, so there are opportunities for writers, also. Check it out.

From Psychology Today...

"A study in press at the Journal of Research in Personality showed that frequent readers of narrative fiction scored higher on tests of empathy and social acumen than did readers of expository nonfiction. A follow-up study showed that fiction could actually hone these skills: People assigned to read a New Yorker short story did better on a subsequent social reasoning task than did those who read an essay from the same magazine."

Don't know exactly what this means, nor do I have the research details. But, being a fiction reader and a therapist, I liked it!