In Chap. 8, I recount three lessons targeting the educative value of reading for enjoyment. These lessons look at all the connections made between texts, readers’ lives and the world around them. They demonstrate the generation of new ideas and the creative impetus that reading with aesthetic purpose so often gives rise to.
The final lessons consolidate the work in the aesthetic domain. They bring together the many benefits of reading for enjoyment: imaginative thinking, emotional resonance, enriched vocabulary, deepening of personal insights, broadening of worldviews, inspiration for creative endeavours and sense of community building that contribute to personal growth and development.