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Sorry didn’t know where else to post this. Was wondering how many of us readers are so empathetic that we have to stop reading a book and do something else because the situation is getting to intense. Like if you know what is going to happen will hurt the main character? Or when something makes you cry you have to put the book down and join the “real� world.

I am an empathetic reader yet it depends

This is an interesting topic and I'd love to see more answers!

As for me, I don't actually fit that description above. Quite the contrary actually. If the book is really good and well-written and I connect with the characters, I do feel for them, but not to such an extent that I'd start crying or anything. I would be upset throughout the book and a little bit after I finish and if I write a review, but the feeling doesn't last long. Let's say that it was an extremely intense story and then I would inevitably love it, but that would make me want to read it even more rather than pausing. If something bad was going to happen to the character I adore, I would continue with more interest because I would want to know exactly what, when, how and why that happened. The real world would be a bother from obtaining that information, so I would actually not put it down, but rather read with more interest.

I'm an empathetic reader, but the book has to be really well written so that I feel I am 'there' watching on the sidelines.

I definitely am.. but how much I empathize still depends on the book itself

Thank you for all who commented. I was wondering because I am what I described. I know they say that readers score higher on the empathy charts. Yet was wondering how others empathize with the books. You never hear from readers like us. Only from scholars. I don’t think they actually know how it is when you read. Just how reading effects is.