All right. This is Hank Hennigraf, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast with another Hank Unplug Short.

This one, I'll title Getting Hooked on Reading or Just Hooked on Reading.

I was thinking this morning about the fact that over the last few weeks, I have been reading voraciously,

a wide variety of genres, including James Michner's The Bridge at

Undo, and then Sarah's Key, another book titled A Long Walk with Mary.

And there are, of course, many others, most notably the Bible. I'm reading books

that even give stirring glimpses into the life of a person in a prison camp. Those who were

imprisoned during the Stalin years, 1924 through 1953.

One of those books, and I was just reading this this morning.

See if this makes any sense.

The book says something like 25 people were assigned to our barracks.

You could see the truck had been arduous. The prisoners were

pushed into the barracks. They looked like mere shadows, rather than people. They could barely

stand. Their life was oozing out of them. Outside it was freezing. They had not been fed for two

days and they had not slept for three nights.

Well, the book goes on.

I won't continue.

But my point is, books are stimulating.

They're informative.

They're invigorating.

They enrich your life. There's so many benefits, discipline,

and vocabulary and memory, creativity and reasoning, and even relaxation. And it can even stave off

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