{"id":4396,"date":"2017-11-12T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2017-11-12T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T16:23:00","slug":"de-stressing-with-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2017\/11\/12\/de-stressing-with-books\/","title":{"rendered":"De-stressing with books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Stress Awareness Day (the first Wednesday in November) encourages us to think about our mental well-being\u00a0and how we\u00a0manage the pressures in our lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mind.org.uk\/information-support\/tips-for-everyday-living\/stress\/#.WgNZJMZl-Uk\">Mind, the mental health charity<\/a>, offers advice for anyone looking to get better control of their stress levels.<\/p>\n<p>But LSHTM Library &amp; Archives Service also has a very helpful\u00a0resource &#8211; the <strong>BookSwap,<\/strong>\u00a0located\u00a0opposite\u00a0the Library Enquiry Desk.\u00a0 Four shelves of books to read for pleasure, providing the perfect respite from study, work and the daily grind.<\/p>\n<p>The BookSwap has award-winning authors (Ali Smith, Iris Murdoch, Donna Tartt), popular fiction (Ian Rankin, Dan Brown,\u00a0Alexander McCall Smith), memoirs (Jo Brand, Stephen Fry) and more.<\/p>\n<p>Although it&#8217;s called the BookSwap, and the sign on the bookcase mentions <em>&#8220;Donating&#8221;<\/em> before it mentions <em>&#8220;Taking&#8221;<\/em>, please don&#8217;t feel that a donation is essential.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a very\u00a0casual \u00a0system, so just grab a book, bring it back when you&#8217;re done, and\u00a0take something else.<\/p>\n<p>As philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer is supposed to have said:\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never known any trouble that an hour&#8217;s reading didn&#8217;t assuage.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Stress Awareness Day (the first Wednesday in November) encourages us to think about our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":449,"featured_media":4403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7575,27710],"tags":[64543,64546,64545],"class_list":["post-4396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-library-resources","tag-reading","tag-relaxing","tag-stress","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>De-stressing with books - Library, Archive &amp; 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