Book Worm

Here is some good news for you. When you read your favorite  mystery thriller   books, you are not just reading it for entertainment- you are getting hidden benefits as well.  Here are some of the benefits you are collecting-   Mental stimulation- Mysteries,  crime thriller books , and other types of suspense fiction give a mental workout, stimulating many areas of your brain. Several studies show that as you read, your brain encodes and retrieves the words in a way that puts you into a virtual simulator, experiencing the events of the book as if they are happening. It engages your brain just like you do physical exercises. The puzzles that you solve are like a mental workout.    A way of stress release- While this may sound paradoxical, when you read these tension-filled  suspense stories  from that make your heartbeat quicker and your neck and back muscles bunch up, you are venting off stress. Imagine it to be like a stress ball...