Why is reading less valuable to a leader than, say, playing golf?”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Helen Taylor, author of Why Women Read Fiction. According to Nielsen Book Research, women outbuy men in all categories of novel except fantasy, science fiction and horror. And when men do read fiction, they don’t tend to read fiction by women, while Taylor claims that women read and admire male novelists, rarely making value judgments. Fiction takes you on indirect routes to truth.”Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor is published by Oxford University Press (£14.99). I think women are more empathetic [than men] and more social – women read fiction to get into the mindset of others.

Source: The Guardian December 07, 2019 16:52 UTC