He grimaces at how her roughness bends the other paperbacks that she shoves the offered book into.

"A-actually, it's really not... anyway, uh. No, s-some people find that when they're having a lot of thoughts on something, reading about it from another person's point of view can be good for them. It sort of, um, helps them... process it? Come to terms with how horrible what they went through really was."

He scans the shelf again, and pulls out a new one, Little Women. "Here- this might suit you more, then."