Its only natural to be curious as to why you are feeling like this.
Reading those books is tormenting you, its not letting you put things to one side and enabling you to move on.
If anything its amplifying the problems.
You may feel that if you can read about someone elses problems that you can relate to it and it somehow eases it? You just need to have a lil faith and push through things, distract yourself, if you have exams etc put your head down and work like crazy.
By the sounds of it your boyfriend is a phenomenal catch. Keep hold of him and don't let him suffer in your silence, talk to him.
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fedoragirl = BFFL :)!